Friday, August 31, 2012

We'll Wait for the: "What I Meant to Say..."

Once in a while a little honesty slips out of the GOP lie machine. Or maybe they just don't care; after all, we all know what their strategy is anyway.
From the convention stage here, the Republican Party has tried to highlight its diversity, giving prime speaking slots to Latinos and blacks who have emphasized their party’s economic appeal to all Americans.

But they have delivered those speeches to a convention hall filled overwhelmingly with white faces, an awkward contrast that has been made more uncomfortable this week by a series of racial headaches that have intruded on the party’s efforts to project a new level of inclusiveness.

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“The demographics race we’re losing badly,” said Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (S.C.). “We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term.”
  Washington Post
The strategy: generate angry white guys.

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