Axetrain posted:

The right will definitely go heavy on the misogyny because it's their nature but that's a much more dangerous game to play then racism. Women make up 51% of the population so your essentially going to be attacking a majority population, that has way more potential to backfire on them really really hard come election day.

Mercury_Storm posted:

Counterpoint: American white male masculinity isn't challenged by there being a black man in the highest office of the land.

quote:

The racial aspect adds another dimension. Obama’s entire political career has been defined by pushing back against the “threatening, black alpha-male” stereotype. Conciliation, not confrontation, is not just his style, but the core of his substance as well. The slightest break from this stance can trigger immediate backlash — as was seen in the knee-jerk response to his comment saying police acted “stupidly” when they arrested Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates for trespassing in his own home. Since then, conservative activists and media have manufactured countless similar offenses as Obama has consistently failed to produce them himself. He has a “deep-seated hatred of white people,” as Glenn Beck alleged, without a scintilla of evidence, when Obama held his “beer summit” to atone for his momentary lapse of inconvenient truth-telling. And that has been the right-wing narrative subtext ever since. But the textual evidence has been virtually nonexistent, because Obama’s personality and his politics have been so deeply wedded to compromise and conciliation.

Now, suddenly, it’s possible for conservatives to finally admit Obama’s not a dictatorial tyrant — now that they’ve found a way to hold it against him!

This swift reversal should not be surprising. White male anxiety about black manhood has always been so deeply irrational that it can switch polarities multiple times in a single racist rant. On a much larger, historical scale, in ”Darwin’s Athletes,” one of the most striking reversals John Hoberman notes came about when blacks first began demonstrating their athletic prowess. Before that, white supremacy had been asserted across the boards — whites were superior to blacks in every way — mentally, physically, morally, spiritually. But when top black athletes emerged to disprove that, white supremacy reconfigured itself: Brute physical superiority was suddenly equated axiomatically with inferiority in every other realm.

wixard posted:

On paper that seems comforting, but after thinking about it for a minute I'm not so sure. For one thing they could parade a long line of Hillary's peers (60something white women) to tear her apart with what amounts to misogyny but gets a pass because of the optics. I'm not saying current RWM is respectful with race and Obama, but there aren't too many black people ready to go on the air and directly say his blackness hurts his ability to lead the country, while there are plenty of family values housewives and grandmothers who HATE Hillary.

I say this in part because of my own mother. I remember listening to plenty of Rush with my mom growing up and Bill Clinton was always "Slick Willy," in her house. 20 years later she has come around a bit (largely because of Bush) and she even voted for Obama the last couple of elections. Today you can have a conversation with her and say Clinton was a better president than Reagan and it won't immediately escalate to screaming and bullshit. But she hasn't shaken the Hillary hate even a little bit, it doesn't matter that she would essentially have the same platform as Obama, she personally hates her.

I'm not sure what it is exactly, I guess she personally offended a large part of conservative white america in the 90s by being a sort of working politician mother instead of a picturesque homemaker with dinner on the table like Nancy or Barbara. Then she wrote a book "telling everyone else how to raise their kids," then she proved her marriage was just a power play by not divorcing Bill or even making a scene over the Lewinsky affair. Those are the major points my teenaged brain remembers from Rush and my mom back in the day.

mr. mephistopheles posted:

Except it absolutely is? Are you serious? Half of the recent attacks on Obama have been about how he's not masculine enough and doesn't have the balls to keep countries like Russia and Syria in check and a virile white man like Reagan would make them poo poo their pants.

Axetrain posted:

I'm not saying it couldn't work but if I were a betting man I'd put my money on it backfiring.

Professor Shark posted:

I just read that Mark Mayfield is dead, and while reading the article it mentioned that he was in trouble over trying to use photos of a guys bedridden wife in a nursing home as ammo for an attack ad.

How was this going to work, Right Wing Media thread?

Professor Shark posted:

I just read that Mark Mayfield is dead, and while reading the article it mentioned that he was in trouble over trying to use photos of a guys bedridden wife in a nursing home as ammo for an attack ad.

How was this going to work, Right Wing Media thread?

Professor Shark posted:

I just read that Mark Mayfield is dead, and while reading the article it mentioned that he was in trouble over trying to use photos of a guys bedridden wife in a nursing home as ammo for an attack ad.

How was this going to work, Right Wing Media thread?

wixard posted:

I'm not sure what it is exactly, I guess she personally offended a large part of conservative white america in the 90s by being a sort of working politician mother instead of a picturesque homemaker with dinner on the table like Nancy or Barbara.

Good Citizen posted:

Holy poo poo.

Quick someone forward this picture to Vince McMahon

Phone posted:

Iron SheikSikh II. Make it happen.

quote:

We just remember June the 6th, 1944. We know what happened at D-Day. We know what happened on Omaha and Utah beach. There’s something about those men that our dad taught us when we were kids. And he said, ‘Boys, don’t you ever run from bullets. You run toward the bullets.’ There are cultural bullets flying, all over today, especially religious liberty. And what’s happening right now is many spiritual leaders, elected leaders, they are running from bullets. But there’s a remnant of people that are ready to stand and say ‘I’m not running from these bullets any more. I’m gonna take this beach…’”

...

Just like in the movie Braveheart, when all the Scottish Army was standing there, and they all had their gear on, and they were lined up and they were unified, and they were ready to fight but not a single one of them wanted to fight. And then as William Wallace and a few men rode in on horses with blue face paint on. They were ready to pick a fight. And what I see before me right now are a bunch of people with some blue face paint on – so let’s go get it!

Intel&Sebastian posted:

Here's a fun game: Try and guess how trivial of a slight these RW darlings were subjected to, based on their description...


Answer: Lost their chance to make a HGTV reality show when people contacted HGTV about their previous dealings in virulent anti-gay protests, among other poo poo like being part of the "Ground Zero Mosque" fiasco. - http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/benham-brothers-ready-die-battle . Drama queens.

radical meme posted:

The title of that article is "Benham Brothers Ready To Die In Battle". Why is every right wing cause an actual war?

radical meme posted:

The title of that article is "Benham Brothers Ready To Die In Battle". Why is every right wing cause an actual war?

comes along bort posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulSnAM6gmM

Of course in the two decades since that comment women have come to make up nearly half of the sole or primary earners in households, soon to be a majority.

Republicans posted:

FuzzySkinner posted:

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/neil-cavuto-michele-bachmann-obama-lawsuit-108316.html

Anyone see this?

For once I actually can side with Cavuto on something.

I think Bachmann is legit nuts.

I also wonder how long it's going to take until the "Free market/Business" conservatives eventually divorce themselves from the Tea Party-types. I can already see that division is already beginning to happen honestly.

Republicans posted:

Once upon a time Medved hated soccer almost as much as he hates homeless people and graffiti. Now that the USA is actually competitive in the World Cup he makes delightfully comments like:



If only we could make gay marriage and single-payer healthcare into international sporting events and give us a whiff of a chance at beating the entire world at something.

pengun101 posted:

Holy poo poo,the splintering of the GOP-Tea Party relationship is accelerating. maybe we will have a hosed up third party by the time 2016 hits.

pengun101 posted:

Holy poo poo,the splintering of the GOP-Tea Party relationship is accelerating. maybe we will have a hosed up third party by the time 2016 hits.

54.4 crowns posted:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDHNIn-XLKM

pengun101 posted:

Holy poo poo,the splintering of the GOP-Tea Party relationship is accelerating. maybe we will have a hosed up third party by the time 2016 hits.

BiggerBoat posted:

Someone else pointed it out earlier but for some reason FOX News is taking the hard right to task pretty heavily lately. Not sure why but it makes me nervous because I know there's an ulterior motive lurking in there somewhere.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

The strength of McDaniel's write in campaign is going to be a great test of this but probably not a full blown 3rd party yet methinks.

Intel&Sebastian posted:

The strength of McDaniel's write in campaign is going to be a great test of this but probably not a full blown 3rd party yet methinks.

thefncrow posted:

There won't be a write-in campaign. MS law says that write-in votes are only counted if a candidate on the ballot dies. His only chance was to run as an independent, and the deadline for doing that was the end of January, before the GOP primary.

ToxicSlurpee posted:

Maybe I'm wrong but I can't see anything happening that isn't the Tea Party spinning off into a spectacular failure of a third party.

thefncrow posted:

There won't be a write-in campaign. MS law says that write-in votes are only counted if a candidate on the ballot dies. His only chance was to run as an independent, and the deadline for doing that was the end of January, before the GOP primary.