I just want to be the first person to play the playing-the-playing-the-race-card-card card.The problem is, there is Chris Mmathews out there.
Once upon a time I liked Chris Matthews, but not so much anymore. Did he change or did I change or did both of us change?
Regards — Cliff
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By 'race card,' you mean ...?
The RonPaulites, whose furious devotion to a single idea have made them the Ellen Jamesians of the right, were protesting a decision by RNC officials not to seat members of the Maine delegation, which was split between Paul and Romney supporters following rule changes made just prior to the convention. There were energetic shouts of “Aye!” and “Nay!” as a Puerto Rican party functionary—Zoraida Fonalledas, the chairwoman of the Committee on Permanent Organization—took her turn at the main-stage lectern. As she began speaking in her accented English, some in the crowd started shouting “U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
The chanting carried on for nearly a minute while most of the other delegates and the media stood by in stunned silence. The Puerto Rican correspondent turned to me and asked, “Is this happening?” I said I honestly didn’t know what was happening—it was astonishing to see all the brittle work of narrative construction that is a modern political convention suddenly crack before our eyes. None of us could quite believe what we were seeing: A sea of twentysomething bowties and cowboy hats morphing into frat bros apparently shrieking over (or at) a Latina. RNC chairman Reince Priebus quickly stepped up and asked for order and respect for the speaker, suggesting that, yeah, what we had just seen might well have been an ugly outburst of nativism.
Will those Republicans EVER get it right? Since the 1970s they haven't had a clue.
As for Puerto Rico, I remember when they shot up Capitol Hill. Maybe they are secret Tea Party folks.
It is a big party, with it's share of jerks. Without it we might well still have slavery in some of the States.
Regards — Cliff
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