Republicans say what is popular.

May 25, 2011

A secret recording obtained by ABC-7 Chicago (click here) last week has Mark Kirk defending comments he made about preventing voter fraud in predominantly African American Chicago communities.

Kirk, speaking to Republican leaders, was recorded saying that he planned to hire a voter integrity squad to monitor African-American communities that tend to vote Democratic, ABC reports.

“These are lawyers and other people that will be deployed in key, vulnerable precincts, for example, South and West sides of Chicago, Rockford, Metro East, where the other side might be tempted to jigger the numbers somewhat,” Kirk says on the tape....

Mark Kirk is a proud Republican and is a racist. His backpedaling about his endorsement of Donald Trump is dishonest and insincere.

Every Republican in office can be traced by to racist words or otherwise. It is far from just Scalise. No one is going to believe an entire GOP party found the light.

March 3, 2013
...Obama called the comments (click here) by McConnell “hurtful and divisive, especially in these trying times for our country.
That brought a charge of racism from MSNBC talk show host Lawrence O’Donnell.
Said O’Donnell:

There are many, many, many rhetorical choices you can make at any point in any speech to make whatever point up want to make. If he wanted to make the point that you just suggested and I think he does want to make that point, they had a menu of a minimum of ten different kinds of images that they could have raised. And I promise you, the speech writers went through rejecting three or four before they land order that one. That’s the one they want for a very deliberate reason. That — there’s — these people reach for every single possible racial double entendre they can find in every one of these speeches.

It isn’t the first time charges of racism have surfaced against McConnell.  As a candidate for the Senate he was accused to telling racist jokes in private meetings.
“The candidate saw racist jokes as a way to make him seem like one of the boys in Kentucky,” one former campaign worker told Capitol Hill Blue.
In 2010 he came under fire for refusing to denounce racism in the Tea Party.
When Candy Crowley, host of CNN’s State of the Union asked McConnell about the Tea Party’s widespread racism, McConnell replied “I am not interested in getting into that debate.”
McConnell was also accused of racism in 2007 when he oppose a Senate bill that would give Washington, DC, a voting seat in the House of Representatives.
Opponents said McConnell had expressed concern about granting such power to an area with more than 650,000 African Americans.

Racist is where the GOP lives. Ryan didn't walk away from Donald Trump, he stated in a textbook meaning Trump made a racist comment, but, didn't denounce him. Ryan has excellent 'trade craft.'

March 14, 2014

Paul Ryan triggered a firestorm of recrimination this week. (click here) Speaking recently on Bill Bennett’s Morning in America radio program, the Wisconsin Republican and self-styled budget wonk linked poverty to “this tailspin of culture, in our inner cities in particular, of men not working and just generations of men not even thinking about working or learning the value and the culture of work.”

Setting aside the factual claim—the notion that poverty is especially concentrated in America’s inner cities is an increasingly antiquated one—these comments elicited a quick and forceful rebuke from Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who decried them as “a thinly veiled racial attack.” She explained: “[W]hen Mr. Ryan says ‘inner city,’ when he says, ‘culture,’ these are simply code words for what he really means: ‘black.’”...