Thank you, Election Gods/Goddesses! You’ve given me so much to be joyful for over the last few months. Obama, Palin’s Couric interveiw, Rachel Maddow. I thought to myself, after Nov. 4th, “OK, now we have a krewe together, now we’re ready for the 8-year battle ahead.” But, you chose to bless me with even more happy times, in the form of a ringside seat at The Great Republican Circular Firing Squad Show. McCain vs. Palin! Almost-Moderates vs. Neocon vampires! The Jammies Media crowd turning on each other as the welfare dries up (Clearly, the idea of Free Market Capitalism was far more alluring to them when they were insulated from it’s consequences.) And now this. David Duke about to steal away the last Republican faction with any numerical hope getting Reps, you know, elected. A New Party! A New Hope! Just like the Rebel Alliance, if the Rebel Alliance was made up of sub-literate, inbred cretins who thought they were the Master Race. Bonus: David Duke, Klansman, calling someone else a racist. The mind reels.

Michael Steele’s appointment contains so much win: he himself is an incompetent clown (watch him on Bill Maher and you’ll see he can’t even hold his own in a politcal debate against pop stars); and the fact that he’s African-American drives the racist Know-Nothings in his own party nuts. David Duke may be too nuts to lead a rebellion within the GOP, but I’m sure a whole range of Know-Nothing conservatives, from Buchanan to Palin to Huckabee, are now considering their options.

this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base.

The inventors of the “Southern Strategy” never imagined a world where they would be a minority.

It is to laugh.

Gonna go get me some popcorn and a ringside seat.

Stop! Stop! I’m developing a popcorn allergy and I think I’m going to be sick.

aimai

Let’s make this abomination in the Republican Party, the last major party of White redoubt,

What?! I thought *liberals* were the real racists, and it was Republicans who were colorblind! I’m just so shocked!

Oh, my. I’m overdosing on schadenfreude here. The Republicans no doubt thought they could increase their appeal to minorities by electing a black man as the party chair, but perhaps they didn’t count on just how much of the party still belongs to the David Duke/Katon Dawson wing. I can’t wait to see the infighting that results from this…

Oh dear. I clicked through to David Duke’s site, and discovered that he is fairly young! I always thought he was an old codger, but not at all. I also discovered he has a problem with Jewish people, but I guess that’s not news. Ah, America.

I also discovered he has a problem with Jewish people, but I guess that’s not news.

Ah, Cassie…KKK? 

Means he also has a big problem with Catholics.

Blacks first, of course, but after the KKK eliminates them, Catholics and Jews are next on deck.

Illinois Nazi Gruppenfuehrer:  The car belongs to a known traffic menace.
Head Illinois Nazi: What’s his name?
Gruppenfuehrer: His name is Elwood Blues. He’s got a record a mile long. And, he’s a Catholic.

Illinois Nazis and KKK are blood brothers.

I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in Wingnuttia. Near them on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter’d visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp’d on these lifeless things,
The hand that mock’d them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Republican, Party of Parties:
Look on my deeds, ye Liberals, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains: round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

(Appologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley…)

That’s about the only good thing you can say about the KKK- they’re assholes, but at least they’re equal-opportunity assholes.  They hate everyone that isn’t a white male anglo-saxon protestant, and they even look at them funny.

This is a fantastic development, and I truly hope it happens.  I’m constantly embarrassed for my socially-liberal Republican friend when things like this come to light.

MikeEss, I want to have your abortion now!

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As usual, David Duke is overestimating his own importance, and I think he’s overestimating the reaction that Steele’s rise to the top of the RNC ladder will have on racist white voters, or even how many will bolt the party because of this.

That said, if Duke and his ilk are able to peel enough voters away from the Republican party, especially in southern states, to make those states competitive over the next couple of years, then good. I think our political system will be better off if Republicans are able to make inroads into communities of culture, because it will only happen if Republicans move left on those issues and get away from that faction of their party that still embraces racism.

Not to thread derail, but wrongsideofthetracks is way out of line. This is a feminist blog. Blowjobs, as any form of sex, are not “duties” of womenfolk in marriage. Also, you have no information that Ms Clinton and Kennedy didn’t have sex with their husbands - just that their husbands _also_ had sex with other people. Blaming the victim is so Bush-era, dontcha think?

Funny he uses the work “redoubt” as Mt. Redoubt is about to kick ash all over Palin territory ...

this will lead to a huge revolt among the Republican base.

David Duke: The Republican Base is revolting!
Howard Dean: Well, no more than usual ...

Oh sweet, sweet schadenfreude! After the last eight years, this current repuglican implosion is even more gratifying to watch.  I thought that eventually the more moderate republicans were going to try to assert some control over their party clown car. I never thought that it would be the bigots and racists who would be all over the media spewing their bile where everyone could see and hear them! I hope they keep it up until at least the next election!

wrongsideofthetracks…

Ummm.  Wow.  Just wow.

(Uncomfortable silence)

wrongsideofthetracks - srsly?  You’re coming to a feminist blog and saying that (a) it’s a woman’s fault if her husband has an affair since she clearly didn’t give him enough blowjobs, (b) this is the cause of the Democratic Party’s malaise, and (c) Michelle Obama needs to get on her knees and do her wifely duty for the sake of the party.  Srsly?!?

And the cherry on the cake is the “Shillary” thing.

You, sir, are an ass.

I can’t even bring myself to address the daughter issues.

I wonder which third party will have the honor of hosting Duke and his followers. Or maybe they’ll form their own…

I wonder which third party will have the honor of hosting Duke and his followers. Or maybe they’ll form their own…

Because the Dixiecrats and the American Independent Party were oh so successful…

Don’ whip me, mazzah! I’s gwine try harder. Tax cuts, deregulation! (CRACK!) Day-am, mazzah!

Hmm….haven’t heard much about David Duke in the MSM lately.  Maybe this is his way of preventing Rush Limbaugh from hogging all the media action….:(

Oh dear. I clicked through to David Duke’s site, and discovered that he is fairly young! I always thought he was an old codger, but not at all.

Well, that’s to be expected considering he’s a possible Cylon running Windows ME off of a severely overclocked intel 8086….

“Maybe” it’s just “me” but I don’t understand a “word” that wrongsideofthetracks is “saying”.

Well, there is an obvious abbreviation of wrongsideofthetracks’s screenname we can be using—just truncate it to the first 5 letters and it loses no accuracy.

Of course this means none of us can ever sleep again, at least as long as “wrong” is on the Internet.

She comprehends that she’s someone’s daughter, someone’s lawyer, someone’s best friend, and ALSO someone’s lover.

I always saw Michelle Obama as being worth of “someone” status in her own right, rather than being defined solely by her relationships to other people. Was I being naive and hopelessly idealistic?

Does David Duke realize how racist he sounds? ...Oh, right.

Oh, and do we really have speculate about what the Michelle Obama and her husband do in the privacy of their own home? Seriously.

Well, Faux News evidently has to do just that—speculate on the Obamas’ relationship. But it’s Faux.

Well, that’s to be expected considering he’s a possible Cylon…

The very notion that David Duke might be a Cylon is absurd.  First of all, it’s clearly been demonstrated that Cylons are capable of human emotions…

We must all honor Duke for making Louisiana the state with the highest proportion of African American registered voters back in the 90s. I am glad to hear that he is trying to take this campaign national.

How’s this for a Republican presidential ticket?

Duke/Malkin 2012.

How’s this for a Republican presidential ticket?

Duke/Malkin 2012.

Ain’t gonna happen.  Here’s a likely conversation:

Duke: Now I’ve been nominated…I need a running mate.  Henrich! Any suggestions?

Henrich: Yes! Michelle Malkin!! She won’t only help you with them wimminz, but also those people.

Duke: WHAT?!!! Take an uppity Asiatic b&6ch;who went to some pinko commie college?!! F^&K;, no!! Get your race-traitoring ass out of my campaign, now!!!

(Tosses beer kegs as Henrich flees in terror.)

Hey, it’s not Malkin’s fault she’s not white. It’s not like she doesn’t want to be.

Relax, Duke will likely be behind bars when he is found to be part of a plot to burn a cross on the white house lawn!

welllll,

wrongsideetc. is clearly out of touch with the area he traverses….

Let’s try it this way.  After all of Bill’s forays it did always lead one to wonder (me at least) if this had become a marriage of convenience rather than love.  We know FDR’s did.  They still made a great team as do Bill and Hillary.

But the Obamas, their fierce love for one another seems almost palpable.  Talk about family values!  The wife abandoning multi-divorced McCains, Limbaughs and other various Rethug hypocrites should learn something.  Don’t you love it when she teases him and he not only accepts it but enjoys it.

And, by the by, the use of “Shillary” in these ‘pages’ did not originate witth wrongside.

She comprehends that she’s someone’s daughter, someone’s lawyer, someone’s best friend, and ALSO someone’s lover.

I always saw Michelle Obama as being worth of “someone” status in her own right, rather than being defined solely by her relationships to other people. Was I being naive and hopelessly idealistic?

No kidding.

I just re-read the first quote above, and wrong is literally describing Michelle O. as if she were a piece of property.  Literally.

Ick.

The very notion that David Duke might be a Cylon is absurd.  First of all, it’s clearly been demonstrated that Cylons are capable of human emotions…

The mere fact David Duke wrote the insanely wacky screed he did above is proof he has human emotions….albeit derived from idiocy and irrationality.  Thus, he is a possible Cylon…..albeit one from the budget line kinda like what Packard-Hell, Compaq Presorryo, and eMachines were for PCs….

I know you guys won’t believe me, but I speak for the vast majority of conservatives when I say “Thank God David Duke is finally starting to realize Republicans don’t think like him.” 

I’m not trolling.  I think we can all agree that if David Duke feels alienated by both major parties, this is a good thing.

the use of “Shillary” in these ‘pages’ did not originate witth wrongside

True.  It was actually rather common a few years ago.  I believe it was a reference to her Bill-like attempts to be “Centrist” by caving to the Right while still trying to hold onto her progressive base.  The issue that comes first to mind is her mouthing Right-wing talking points on reproductive rights.

But if you look at Wrong’s first post again, what he actually said was “Shrillary”.  Slightly different issue, I think.

I know you guys won’t believe me, but I speak for the vast majority of conservatives when I say “Thank God David Duke is finally starting to realize Republicans don’t think like him.”

I don’t doubt that the Republican Party is glad that Duke is finally going away.  As you say, out-and-proud white supremacists like him are political embarassments in this day and age.

Thing is, while it may be true that “Republicans don’t think like him” - Klan membership kinda pegs him as an extremist, after all - he wasn’t wrong when he chose the Republican Party as “the last major party of White redoubt”.  The GOP has based its electoral strategy and talking points - thinly coded to provide plausible deniability in an era where campaigning openly to keep the darkies in their place doesn’t work very well - on race-baiting for decades.  When you think of inner-city welfare queens driving cadillacs, what color are they (the queens, not the cadillacs - I always assumed those were pink)?  What color are illegal immigrants, and what language do they speak?  Just who is it that’s going to invade your home when you’re vulnerable because your guns have been taken away?  Why did anti-Obama speakers take such glee in emphasizing his middle name and accusing him of being a “secret Muslim”?  When they - in the same speech - accused him of “associating with terrorists”, do you really believe that they were just talking about a 60-year-old college professor who was a radical in his youth but now works on community improvement boards?

There’s a reason it took Duke a long time to figure out that he wasn’t welcome. 

I’m not trolling.  I think we can all agree that if David Duke feels alienated by both major parties, this is a good thing.

Absolutely. 

Thing is, it’s good for us because it means that the Republican Party is either splintering or changing, and either suits us just fine.

It’s good for you because the Republican Party has shed a nasty political embarrassment, which is always nice.  But it’s only really good if Duke’s departure is a sign that the GOP is truly changing, not just that he’s throwing a hissy fit because a token black man was put in charge of the RNC.  The Republicans have put tokens into important positions before, but it hasn’t stopped them from pursuing the politics of racial resentment.  If they continue to do that, then this isn’t really that good for you at all.