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Jason Richwine Resigns From Heritage Foundation After Dissertation Controversy

Deuce said:
Also, continuously telling hispanics (and other minorities) that they only vote Democrat for handouts. The implication being that white people vote on ideology? Why, how superior us white people must be! Heyyyy how come those darn minorities aren't voting for us!?
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Hispanics don't vote as often as you think they do. If they did, Texas would not be a red state. :2wave:
 
Fisher said:
Hispanics don't vote as often as you think they do. If they did, Texas would not be a red state. :2wave:
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It won't be for long. But it's clear how the GOP keeps hold on power there: suppress the Latino vote.
 
head of joaquin said:
It won't be for long. But it's clear how the GOP keeps hold on power there: suppress the Latino vote.
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You are onto something. Texas doesnt want illegal immigrants voting. But Im betting thats not what you meant.
 
American said:
Yeah, he's criticizing an organization that took care of the problem. What's there to debate here, not a goddamn thing.
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... I don't even know where to start. Words don't mean what you think they mean.
 
Fisher said:
Hispanics don't vote as often as you think they do. If they did, Texas would not be a red state. :2wave:
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Meanwhile, in other threads, Republicans gnash their teeth at the prospect of black people voting more often than white people do...

Texas' demographics would make it a blue state if the current trend continues. The electoral vote implications of this are so severe that the GOP has no choice except to attempt to change latino voting trends.

Texas flipping blue for the white house means the GOP has no route to elect a president. They have a couple decades to figure this out, but they do have to figure this out.
 
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Deuce said:
Meanwhile, in other threads, Republicans gnash their teeth at the prospect of black people voting more often than white people do...

Texas' demographics would make it a blue state if the current trend continues. The electoral vote implications of this are so severe that the GOP has no choice except to attempt to change latino voting trends.

Texas flipping blue for the white house means the GOP has no route to elect a president. They have a couple decades to figure this out, but they do have to figure this out.
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Exactly. The GOP is on the brink of electoral extinction. Texas Republicans are literally panicking trying to figure out ways to disenfranchise Hispanic voters. It's what the GOP has become: a machine to try to prevent Americans from voting as the only way it can win elections.
 
DVSentinel said:
Interesting that when some member of the GOP or other non-left group says something people would consider stupid, it is news worthy, but when liberals or progressives do it, it is not considered news worthy by the press. Could this be because only things that are uncommon are considered news worthy?
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Only you find it interesting. Start you own thread if you have something to say about progressives. This thread about conservative bad faith and racism.
 
head of joaquin said:
Only you find it interesting. Start you own thread if you have something to say about progressives. This thread about conservative bad faith and racism.
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No, it is about A person whom you call conservative having bad faith and being racist (apparently in yours and others opinions). To assume that all conservatives are such by the actions of one or a few would be attempting to create a stereo type and to foster hatred. Are you trying to stereo type conservatives by the actions of only one person?
 
Oftencold said:
Not at all. We understand the Democrat's appeal to low IQ voters.
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According to Politifact The appeal maybe for an elephant among the less educated/intelligent folks out there.

2008 CNN poll has college graduates going for Obama over McCain by 8 points.

2012 Pew poll- white lower income and less educated folks have shifted to the GOP. No college degree is a 54% - 37% split in favor of the GOP.

Using Forbes magazine's list of the top 20 richest citizens 60% democrat, 75% if you go by richest families.

Only in the deep south does the GOP have a majority of whites no matter the educational level, though by a 1% margin among post graduates.

I have always read, 'once with a minimum of the facts' to mean just enough of a carefully cherry picked set of facts to carry an entire wave of bogus ones into a discussion.

It is a poor debate tactic to use broad sweeping opinions with no support like a poll, and then put the burden on the other side to prove you wrong.

If you use an entire spectrum of factors you find the democrats tend to do well with minorities, the young, women and the very poor, the very rich.

Perhaps the appeal isn't to the IQ but rather the realization the GOP has a very narrow agenda and that agenda has a very narrow set of criteria in the supporters.

Not owning property, not 'knowing a minimum' of the history and facts, not their IQ but rather what the GOP says when they think no one is taping vs what they say when they 'target' anyone but their staunches of supporters...
 
DVSentinel said:
No, it is about A person whom you call conservative having bad faith and being racist (apparently in yours and others opinions). To assume that all conservatives are such by the actions of one or a few would be attempting to create a stereo type and to foster hatred. Are you trying to stereo type conservatives by the actions of only one person?
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Uh yeah....its all he does.
 
head of joaquin said:
Exactly. The GOP is on the brink of electoral extinction. Texas Republicans are literally panicking trying to figure out ways to disenfranchise Hispanic voters. It's what the GOP has become: a machine to try to prevent Americans from voting as the only way it can win elections.
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Presidential elections anyway. They'll still be more than capable of ruining Congress and state legislatures via clever gerrymandering.
 
Deuce said:
Presidential elections anyway. They'll still be more than capable of ruining Congress and state legislatures via clever gerrymandering.
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Perhaps. But worse than disenfranchising them is promising them something that they are never going to be able to deliver because they are going to be pissed when you don't pony up, and that is what the DNC is doing.
 
Fisher said:
Perhaps. But worse than disenfranchising them is promising them something that they are never going to be able to deliver because they are going to be pissed when you don't pony up, and that is what the DNC is doing.
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...worse than disenfranchising?

Listen to yourself.
 
Deuce said:
Presidential elections anyway. They'll still be more than capable of ruining Congress and state legislatures via clever gerrymandering.
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You have a point there. But like a severed lizard's tail, conservatism's thrashing will decrease with time.
 
DVSentinel said:
No, it is about A person whom you call conservative having bad faith and being racist (apparently in yours and others opinions). To assume that all conservatives are such by the actions of one or a few would be attempting to create a stereo type and to foster hatred. Are you trying to stereo type conservatives by the actions of only one person?
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Another conservative trait: the inability to discuss issues without personalizing them. It's what conservatives do, I guess.
 
head of joaquin said:
Is this a reference to the well-known substance abuse problems of conservatives?
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Like who? Bob Beckal? Oh, wait...

I love how Libbos excuse Soros of being a Nazi collaborator and sending people to the death camps.
 
head of joaquin said:
Another conservative trait: the inability to discuss issues without personalizing them. It's what conservatives do, I guess.
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Ok, perhaps you could, somehow, explain your logic there and how you determine if something is being personalized. Asking questions of you and your motivations for the posting and the way it was posted is personalizing an issue?

Perhaps that might be true if the issue under discussion was you and not the nature of the issue the way you posted it.

What I don't understand is if this person did something bad, what difference does it make, and why do you highlight the fact, that they are conservative or otherwise. The issue should be racism but my interpretation of the way you posted and the fact you stress his being a conservative is that you are attempting to call all conservatives racist, thus making all "conservatives are racist" the issue. If that is not your intention but you intended to discuss whether what he said was racist or not, then why did you even bring up his political stance?

Also, are you calling me conservative? And where in any of the bylaws, stances, etc of Republicans, definitions of conservatism or even an example of all conservatives personalize issues proves your statement? If it cannot be proved then why should I or anyone else actually take it as anything but biased prejudiced without a firm foundation?
 
head of joaquin said:
Another conservative trait: the inability to discuss issues without personalizing them. It's what conservatives do, I guess.
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Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

from One Tin Soldier, definitely a song that accurately describes socialism/Liberalism and Progressivism.
 
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