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Where was this guy for the last year and a half?
Too many Republican leaders are acquiescing to a poisonous “demagoguery” that threatens the party’s long-term credibility, says a veteran GOP House member who was defeated in South Carolina’s primary last month.
While not naming names, 12-year incumbent Rep. Bob Inglis suggested in interviews with The Associated Press that tea party favorites such as former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and right-wing talk show hosts like Glenn Beck are the culprits.
“There were no death panels in the bill … and to encourage that kind of fear is just the lowest form of political leadership. It’s not leadership. It’s demagoguery,” said Inglis, one of three Republican incumbents who have lost their seats in Congress to primary and state party convention challengers this year.
Inglis said voters eventually will discover that you’re “preying on their fears” and turn away.
“I think we have a lot of leaders that are following those (television and talk radio) personalities and not leading,” he said. “What it takes to lead is to say, ‘You know, that’s just not right.’”
And before you start to think Inglis is just another politician mouthing off because of his loss…
Inglis’ refusal to join in on the Obama-bashing of the far right played a big role in his landslide defeat on June 22. Leading up to the election, he frequently challenged voters who questioned the president’s citizenship or patriotism. At one town hall meeting, he was jeered for saying that Beck, a Fox News Channel host, is a divisive fearmonger.
Nice to hear but unfortunately, the kooks have taken over that party of morons.
Inglis also feels that racism has much to do with the anti-Obama sentiment out there.
“I love the South. I’m a Southerner. But I can feel it.”
Of course the bigots will never admit it. I knew a Southener who sent me an email on the night Barack Obama won the election wondering how demeaning it must have felt for poor Joe Biden, a white guy, to have to hug a black man who was now his boss. This same guy denies he’s a racist. Go figure.
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My republican friends were much more upset about Obama’s race than anything else. I can’t count how many times I heard them say they would have to change the name of The White House to “the black house” Talk about having entitlement complexes. This happened in Chicago. Obama’s hometown. Not the south,where they take pride in being at least 50 years behind the north and all them big city folks.
When do you think the racist will do their research and find out the origins of man was in Africa? A proven fact. We are all black, we are one. The color of our skin doesn’t change the fact that we all came from the same place.