GOP has returned to a "White Voter Strategy"

The Republican party is so dominated  by ideologues, it is unlikely to produce gains among non-white minorities, especially Hispanics.

The GOP is finding it has no alternative but to revert to the old Dixiecrat  "white voter" strategy.

To some extent, it's working. The party's opposition to President Obama's agenda such as his cap-and-trade energy proposal and health care reform plan is picking up some disaffected white Democratic and independent voters.

Republican grievances about Obama, combined with race-baiting commentary from the far-right ideologues has become commonplace. Rightardia published another racist incident last night in which the Pinellas County Republican Party in Florida put Obama in a Keith Ledger 'Joker' white face.

It's all very reminiscent of the party's notorious Southern Strategy, which carried the GOP for decades. But that strategy backfired spectacularly in the 2006 and 2008 elections, and there's no reason to think it will work any better in 2010 -- especially given the ever-growing importance of the minority electorate.

In fact, the Gallup Poll noticed that most of the die hard Republicans don't even live in the Soth any more. The hotbed of conservationism is four small western states with small populations: Utah, Idaho, Wyoming and Alaska.

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Editorial: Rachel on Rampant Right Wing Racism

by Rightard Whitey

Rachel Maddow is correct that right wing racism is at new heights. Richard Nixon established a Southern Strategy established in 1968 that 'whites should stick together.'

This was after President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting rights Acts that gave bare bones civil rights to blacks in the South  to stop minority voter suppression. Most of the Dixiecrats then left the Democratic Party and became Republicans.

While Bush was president, the GOP tried to convince Americans that Affirmative Action and other programs that benefited blacks and other minorities was no longer needed because racism and discrimination had been eliminated in the American society.

That seemed to be born out in the election of Obama. There was little indication of a racial backlash against him because he had a black father.

Shortly after the election, an odd assortment of illiterate racists popped up on the Internet and Usenet. Obama was openly refered to as the Moon ni**er or the Kenyan Koon as well as by many other racist terms.

Rush Limbaugh referred to Colin Powell's endorsement of Obama as being racially motivated and is still continuing to fans the fires of racism. Glen Beck and a host of other broadcasters including Lou Dobbs joined in with the 'Birther Conspiracy' that an executive at MSNBC called racist. The head of CNN indicated the birther story was dead months ago.

Several racial incidents have occured in Tennessee including a RNC candidate who published a song called 'Barrack the Magic Negro.' Another GOP staffer released a photo that had pictures of all the presidents on it. The last picture of Barrack Obama was simply a black background with white eyeballs. A prominent neurologist in St. Petersburg, FL published a graphic portraying Obama as witch doctor with a hammer and sickle. An so forth and so on.

It is peculiar that Republicans are always asking the President for an apology when few have come from the GOP for all of the overt racism. It is clear the Republican Party is playing the race card in an attempt to marginalise the president. It is also clear that the US has a long way to go before racism and other irrational prejudices will be eradicated from our society.

The GOP needs to grow up.

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Hardball talks to former congressman Tom Davis (R-VA) about the GOP Southern Strategy

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Tom Davis, a former GOP Congressman from Virginia, had some tough, but sensible, advice for his party during an appearance on "Hardball" on Wednesday night. Asked by Chris Matthews if the flood of white Dixiecrats into the Republican party who joined "because of civil rights back in the '60s" is "killing" the GOP. The former Congressman honed in on how the politics of culture has wounded the GOP's mass appeal:

Politics has been defined by culture over the last few cycles, and we've become a rural party and a Southern party. We've been losing inner suburbs and the like. A lot of this was the policies of the Bush administration.

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