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I may have to connect the dots on this one...
Why can't the USA be a country only for whites? We need a new leader.
Congresswoman apologizes for 'great white hope' comment
Posted: August 27th, 2009 07:27 PM ET
From CNN's Lauren Kornreich
Republican Rep. Lynn Jenkins told a Kansas newspaper that she did not intend to make a racist comment when she said her party was looking for a 'great white hope.'
WASHINGTON (CNN) — A Republican congresswoman apologized Thursday for saying that her party is looking for a "great white hope" to counteract President Obama's political agenda.
Kansas Rep. Lynn Jenkins told the Lawrence Journal-World that she did not intend to make a racist comment, and was simply saying that "Republicans have been suffering in recent years and we need a bright light."
"Obviously I was discussing the future of the Republican Party in response to a question about is there any hope for Republicans," Jenkins said. "I was explaining that there are some bright lights in the House, and I was unaware of any negative connotation. If I offended somebody, obviously I apologize."
Jenkins had been criticized for saying at an August 19 forum in Kansas that the GOP needs "to find the great white hope" to help the party succeed in the future.
"Republicans are struggling right now to find the great white hope," Jenkins said. "I suggest to any of you who are concerned about that, who are Republican, there are some great young Republican minds in Washington."
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I may have to connect the dots on this one..
Why can't the USA be a country only for whites? We need a new leader.
Saying that the GOP need a Great White Hope is redundant and utterly true. It's not like they're going to find or attract a Great Black Hope or a Great Hispanic Hope.
They're looking for Wes Welker?
Wait, does this mean we get to paint all conservatives as racist due to the words of one stupid Republican, as some on the other side of the fence due when a Democrat is stupid?
Yes we can!
Naw, just look at their election record. Post Reconstruction, Republican voters have elected exactly three US Representatives, and one US Senator, who would probably be thrown out of the party now, being a N.E. Rockefeller-type Republican.
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas. The Southern Strategy, which caters to the most racist area of the country, the Southeastern United States, inherently draws racist voters to the party in droves.
The GOP is like one of those sharks that gets cut open, and starts eating it's own entrails. They're a frothing rabid dog, lashing out at everyone who doesn't believe EXACTLY what they do and setting up litmus tests, and tossing out anyone who shows the slightest bit of moderate status. If this continues for a couple more election cycles, I can see them becoming strictly a regional party, holding maybe 35 Senate seats and 180+ House seats. All fiscal conservatives who can't stomach their agenda will become Blue Dogs under the Democratic tent. The Dems have a much better record reaching across the aisle. I hardly think they won't be able to reach across the Democratic cloakroom to work legislature.
Exactly my thoughts. it sounds incredible but the vocal-minority (i.e. the southern Sarah Palin loving, Lush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Hannity listening) crowd are now driving the GOP..and moderate Republicans are running for cover...forget fiscal conservatism, it's nice, but its all about God, guns, and religion and now indoctrining kids in schools...i don't know how much longer northern Republicans will put up with it..the GOP needs a strong leader than can tame talk-radio and stands on strong conservative principals..not Sean Hannity conservatism either....I just don't see one in the pike...
We live in an America where a plurality of the conservative Republicans on this board consider me to be centrist to center-left. Seriously, in my spare time I'm reading Friedrich Hayek, Russell Kirk, and Edmund Burke, who apparently are proto-socialists according to the prevailing right-wing zeitgeist.
Which should provoke in me greater feelings of despair -- the fact that the Republican Party largely has been reduced to the iden y party of southern whites and their sympathizers, or that the Democrats are working hard on finding a way to lose to them in 2010?
She should have just given a bull apology and let that be that. Instead she gives a bull apology with a qualifier and tries to construe what she said as being of a different nature.
and of course she'll be defended.
Republican poster: "Let's deflect instead of actually staying on the topic of the thread."
Republican poster 2: *music blaring* "Huh?!?!?! I can't hear you over the sound of how clever I am!"
This was an OBVIOUS Freudian slip, BTW.
With a comment like that, I hope she never tries to become a Supreme Court justice.
There are no Republican's on this board. Just Independent's who agree with 95% of Republican ideology and Libertarian's who agree with 40% of Libertarian ideology.
I hate to say it but I have to agree with the side that calls this a racist comment. Thats one of my pet peeves that people often flash their "race card" at the drop of a hat. This is a prime example of why I have little faith in the republican party (note that i have zero to negative faith in the democrats). The people need to take back this country and vote out every government official in washington - they are no longer representing "We, the people of the United States of America..."
Right, Boxer was a racist because a black guy claimed racisism. So are we to suppose now that everytime a minority claims racisism it's accepted as fact? I'm ok with that but can we have some consistency from you guys? You're all over the board when it comes to logical reasoning..
She should be fired. Isn't that the standard operating procedure for whites who make comments like this?
How does it make you feel that "whites" get disrespected like that? Let it out Darrin.
Well in the GOP's case she's a shoe in for re election.
No. What she DID was racist. That should be obvious to anyone who watched it. Would she have added a statement from the NAACP on CLIMATE CHANGE if he wasn't a black man?
As to the OP, people make stupid comments all the time. There are a ton of off-color remarks by Obama himself, e.g. "She's a typical white person...".
Maybe the one black person in Kansas can run against her.
Must not comment on Lynn Jenkins. Must on Commie Liberals. Beep. Beep. Beep.
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