Seriously, GOP? Really?

[giblets]

The mainstream of American politics runs from centrist to far-right extremist.

[giblets]

Gingrich getting pwned, again

[DaShi]

Third place! Good job Ron!

[molly bloom]

You made a blatantly anti-semitic comment about Jews being racists, with no indication of sarcasm. I suppose anti-semitism isn't new to you euros though.

It's not exactly novel in the United States either. Father Coughlin, Henry Ford (who published a series called 'The International Jew' in his newspaper 'Dearborn Independent'), the antisemitic Mothers' Movement, Colonel Robert McCormick... and of course the lovely Elizabeth Dilling:

For Dilling, the New Deal figured most prominently in the communist conspiracy. She warned that the 1934 congressional elections may be the last opportunity to vote out FDR’s “socialist” administration; the Roosevelt administration’s strong link to communism was in fact the topic of her second major work, 'The Roosevelt Red Record and its Background' .

The Ku Klux Klan and the German-American Bund assisted with sales and distribution of 'The Red Network' , and officials of the Daughters of the American Revolution and the American Legion endorsed the work. As Jeansonne’s work noted, many readers pointed to falsifications, prejudices, and holes in Dilling’s research.

In a comment he provided to HNN, Jeansonne asserted that Dilling was “the most prominent of a group of anti-communist, anti-Semitic American women during the 1930s and 1940s.” As such, Jeansonne stated that she is “not a reliable source for information about communism. She believed Jews inspired communism...”

In fact, one of Dilling’s own works, 'The Jewish Religion: Its Influence Today', originally titled 'The Plot Against Christianity', strongly suggests that anti-Semitism was a key component to Dilling's ardent anti-communist ideology. "Marxism, Socialism, or Communism [sic] in practice are nothing but state-capitalism and rule by a privileged minority, exercising despotic and total control over a majority having virtually no property or legal rights,” Dilling wrote in 1964.

“As is discussed elsewhere herein, Talmudic Judaism is the progenitor of modem Communism and Marxist collectivism as it is now applied to a billion or more of the world's population."

http://hnn.us/articles/127931.html

She's not quite as bonkers as the member of the Philadelphia N.L.M.A. ( National Legion Of Mothers Of America) who maintained of Pearl Harbour that:

" I think it was the English ships flying the Japanese flag that attacked us! "

And in case you think this is an attempt to prove that the U.S. is just as, or more racist, it isn't. I've always appreciated how easily racism can rear its unpleasant little head, being the son of Irish immigrants and having to put up with crap like this from the Daily Mail and Evening Standard:

[Tupac Shakur]

How dare the English publish mildly offensive political cartoons about terrorists? That's nearly as racist as Americans cheering the death of Osama Bin Ladin...

[Dinner]

I still contend that the Irish declaring independence was the worst thing to happen to Ireland in modern history. The first 60 years of independence featured a civil war followed by a long period of economic stagnation & poverity while the rest of western Europe (including Northern Ireland) saw unprecidented economic growth. The next 25 years saw a credit fueled bubble which recently popped resulting in Ireland becoming the most indebted country in the world on a per person basis. Generations of Irish would have been far, far better off if the terrorists and crazies hadn't gotten their own way.

[Hauldren Collider]

Turns out wanting to leave a country as powerful and wealthy as the UK was a stupid idea, who would have guessed...

[Elok]

Given the way that country had treated them in the past, I can hardly blame them for wanting independence, even if it turned out rotten.

[Hauldren Collider]

Point taken. And in fairness, we also left...

[Dinner]

I hear conservative *****, whine, and complain all the time because ~90% of blacks voted for Obama and normally vote for Democrats over Republicans (and who can blame them given how racist the GOP is?) but if you check out the results from the Nevada primary ~92% of Mormons voted for their fellow Mormon. Gee, why isn't anyone in the GOP *****ing, whining, and moaning about "tribalism" in this case?

[Felch]

Because people choose to be Mormon, it's a reflection of personal priorities and shared opinions. I expect Mormons to vote for Mormons.

[DaShi]

I'm not going to vote for a Mormon. That's like voting against Jesus.

[Felch]

I'd certainly never expect a Mormon to vote for Ron Paul. The typical Mormon would rather condemn sodomy than decriminalize dope. They're both Republicans, but they come from different philosophical camps.

[giblets]

Point taken. And in fairness, we also left...

We benefited after the British went to war with the French and we could trade with both sides

[giblets]

Because people choose to be Mormon, it's a reflection of personal priorities and shared opinions. I expect Mormons to vote for Mormons.

How is the black vote not an expression of personal priorities and shared opinions?