What if a Democrat had said this?

Herman Cain, on the other party:

“My challenge to you is to stay informed because we are up against a lot of stupid people in America who do not have a clue.”


http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/19/us/politics/behind-herman-cains-humor-a-question-of-seriousness.html?_r=1

Considering the "elitist" tag hung on liberal Democrats, and the accusation that they think "real Americans" from the South and Midwest are unsophisticated rubes (and, although generalized, this is not a completely unfair accusation), I imagine that there would have been some serious outrage directed at someone like Obama or Biden for making this same statement.

It's a pretty good NYT piece on Cain and the question of his seriousness. Some black activists basically said that he's putting on a minstrel show for white GOP voters. Even moving beyond the inflammatory stuff, I think there is a real question about his seriousness. I wish the GOP would finally marry Romney and be done with it. He's the grown-up on the stage.

 

This is the same thesis of Charles Pierce in his book "Idiot America".

 

BTW, shouldn't the media report on the utter shit that is Godfather's Pizza?

 

Isn't it just gas station pizza?

 

I made the point on the poll thread that I can't even imagine the shitstorm that would have ensued if Obama had released a book in late 2007 with the subtitle "My Journey to the White House."

 

I saw that post. It inspired this thread, as I recall having my similar thought yesterday reading the NYT piece.

 

That was when Michael Moore was leading the Democrat primary field?

 

Of course the other side is stupid. If they weren't, they wouldn't be on the OTHER side. See?

 

The problem is not the GOP itself. It's the social conservatives and the Tea Party. The GOP needs the energy and GOTV machines both of these groups possess. Neither of those groups trust Romney. And those groups also have shown a willingness to throw away elections they should have otherwise won to make their point to the GOP establishment - see their support and nomination of Christine O'Donnell, Sharron Angle and Ken Buck in Senate races last year and Tom Tancredo's third-party candidacy for Governor of Colorado last year (allowing Democrat John Hickenlooper to win).

 

Can we now call the Occupy Wall Street Movement the Occupy Party. The Tea Party isn't a party in the sense of a political party, the Tea Party was a an ironic use of the word"party" instead of protest.

 

People spend way too much time picking apart every little word everybody says on both sides of the fence.

Cornel West made a comment about Herman Cain needing to "put the crack pipe down"

Who cares? Shrug it off and move on and if you don't like the candidate, don't vote for them.