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We’re in the weird racist cross-winds section of the Republican nomination fight, and they are… just weird. \u00c2\u00a0In the past, candidates are accused of throwing out coded appeals. \u00c2\u00a0There’s not a whole lot of veneer of subtext with these ones.:<\/p>\n
Rick Santorum<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A few days ago, GOP Presidential candidate Rick Santorum put his foot in his mouth by saying \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to make black people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s lives better by giving them somebody else\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s money.<\/a>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d <\/p>\n See? \u00c2\u00a0Santorum really meant “Blah” people. \u00c2\u00a0See too The Simpsons<\/a>.<\/p>\n Newt Gingrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said today he is willing to go before the NAACP and urge blacks to demand paychecks, not food stamps.<\/em> This is Newt Gingrich more or less doing the same thing he did to a gay voter a while back — tell him he shouldn’t vote for him.<\/p>\n The big storyline with the Republican nominating fight shows us a vengeful Newt Gingrich. \u00c2\u00a0When he was enjoying his slot as the top Non Romney, Rush Limbaugh charged a “coordinated” anti-Gingrich blitz by the GOP Establishment. \u00c2\u00a0“Frankly”, pretty well correct was Limbaugh. \u00c2\u00a0It is something along the lines of the 2004 Democratic nominations unveiling of an ad blitz from “Americans for Jobs, Health Care, and Progressive Values”, a front of anti-Dean ads put together by a 527 financed by major Clinton donors. \u00c2\u00a0Gingrich is currently on the war-path against Romney. \u00c2\u00a0I don’t know Gingrich’s end-game: he don’t think he gonna win, do he? \u00c2\u00a0But it is tough for me not to admire Gingrich for some Bitter Feeling Integrity — even if he is railing against a system that he supported. The Republican “Establishment”, by the way, apparently includes your Christine O’Donnell, roped in for an endorsement last month. \u00c2\u00a0
\nSantorum allegedly made the controversial comments when discussing welfare in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, but he maintained that people misheard the word “black” when he stumbled on a word.
\n<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I looked at that, and I didn’t say that. If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of – blah – came out. And people said I said \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcblack.\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 I didn’t,” Santorum said while smiling away.<\/em><\/p>\n
\nGingrich told a town hall meeting at a senior center in Plymouth, N.H., that if the NAACP invites him to its annual convention this year, he’d go there and talk about “why the African-American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps<\/em>.”<\/p>\n
\n… and probably is over-stating how much of his collapse came out of Romney’s 527s.<\/p>\n
\nMight have been a better speaker than John McCain.<\/a><\/p>\n