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Think “White Student Union” at university conducting random nighttime campus patrols is bad? Read the comments.

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The Daily Caller has a story about Maryland’s Towson University’s “White Student Union” conducting “random” nighttime patrols around campus.

The racist “White Student Union’s” president is none other than “white nationalist” (as described by the Southern Poverty Law Center) Matthew Heimbach, a lovely young man who goes by the title “Commander Heimbach” and who is associated with neo-Confederate hate groups.

Remember him? He was at CPAC with Scott Terry defending slavery at a minority outreach panel: It gave ‘food and shelter’ to blacks. He undoubtedly agrees with Bobby Jindal that slavery was just a “choice.”

Think Progress refers us to this White Student Union blog post:

The frequent robberies, sexual assaults, and acts of vandalism at Towson University are not often reported in the local media. For those who are not Towson students it seems hard to fathom that every single day black predators prey upon the majority white Towson University student body. White Southern men have long been called to defend their communities when law enforcement and the State seem unwilling to protect our people.

So that’s the story.

But there’s another story here, and this one is about the comments at the Daily Caller link. I am dedicating them to anyone who claims we are a “post-racist society” or belittles anyone who claims conservatives don’t have a racist bone in their body, it’s we liberals who do. These are verbatim:

Snoop8765

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander. According to liberals, identity politics is a good thing right?

thephranc Snoop8765

No! Whites are racist! You guys are born that way…. or some such liberal bullshit.

Craig Hatch thephranc

REALLY, WHITES ARE BORN THAT WAY, WELL THEN THAT EXPLAINS WHY 76% OF VIOLENT CRIMES AND RAPE; ARE COMMITED BY BLACK MEN, HMMM MAYBE YOUR KIND ARE BORN THAT WAY. YOUR JUST AS SICK AS BROWN UNIVERSITY, WHO WAS LARGLEY FUNDED BY AARON LOPEZ OF NEWPORT RHODE ISLAND.WHO WAS THE LARGEST JEWISH SLAVE TRADER IN THE SLAVE TRADE HISTORY. SO PLEASE RACISTS DROP DEAD!!!!

IrishBastard thephranc

blacks are just as racists only they use courts and ghetto lottery lawsuits! pigment pimps!

frankreed

Right on!!! Get down!!! Do the boogaloo!!! White people all around the country should take notice and duplicate this!!! Time to erect the backbone and STAND UP for our fellow citizens, who would otherwise be victims!!!
DO IT NOW!

Madisonian2 bob

You have a point bob. White men have won enough Medals of Honor, enough presidencies, and enough generalships. White men have had their turn, now it is time for some diversity. So the next war, let us send only women and blacks to the combat zones. Let’s see if they can bleed and die as good as white men have for our country.

bloodaxe Madisonian2

That would result in 2 things: (1) Defeat. and (2) A bumper crop of mulattoes.

David

The White Student Union is moderate when compared to the Black Panthers or Calypso Louie’s loony band of extremists . .

There were plenty more where those came from.

But then there was this commenter:

Wisco

The next time some clown argues that the right isn’t racist, I’ll send them straight to this comment thread to prove them wrong.

Scott Walker must have seen the #CPAC2013 straw poll: “I love being governor. I’m not looking for any other job.”

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Remember the CPAC 2013 straw poll results?

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul eked out a narrow victory in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll Saturday, with 25 percent of votes to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 23 percent.

The runners-up were as follows: former Sen. Rick Santorum, 8 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 7 percent; Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 6 percent; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 5 percent; Ben Carson, 4 percent; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, 4 percent; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 3 percent; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 3 percent.

Scotty Walker didn’t fare too well.

Here’s what he said very recently:

“I guess the only thing I’d say is I’m not ruling it [a run for president] out.”

Here’s what he’s saying now, via WisPolitics:

Gov. Scott Walker said Monday he’ll continue to be governor “as long as the people of Wisconsin want me to be governor.”

“I love being governor. I’m not looking for any other job.”

Of course, he blamed the press, saying, “Copy editors created headlines creating different things than what I said.” So “I’m not ruling it out” was a media creation?

Of course it couldn’t have been the straw poll. Or the fact that he’s got a few more legal issues to contend with.

Dear GOP: Grow up.

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Here’s something you’d never see at CPAC (h/t: @IndpndntThnkn):

WhackJobPalooza!” aka CPAC 2013 laid bare the rifts in the GOP as well as their hypocrisy and the vile “rock stars” they groom, pamper, and strut out like well-trained dogs at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. I personally couldn’t bring myself to watch much of it, but occasionally a standout moment would come to our attention:

VIDEO: Ann Coulter calls Bill Clinton a “forcible rapist” at #CPAC2013

#CPAC2013 VIDEO– Jeb Bush: People think “Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.”

VIDEO: “Now step away from the teleprompter,” said Sarah Palin reading from a teleprompter at #CPAC2013

Video- Michele Bachmann: If We Cared, We’d Cure Alzheimer’s Disease In Ten Years

Video- CPAC Women’s Panel Fights ‘Sexist’ Obamacare and ‘Liberal Indoctrination Camps’

“Romney: The misery of working people makes America great.”

VIDEO: Bobby Jindal makes waterboarding joke at #CPAC2013

Video- CPAC 2013: Mitch McConnell Says Hillary Clinton-Led 2016 Field Like ‘A Rerun Of The Golden Girls’

Video – CPAC 2013: Alan Keyes: “Semi-Psychotic” Obama Establishing “Totalitarian Communism”

Video – Allen West at CPAC: Civil War, Nazism, and Barack Obama

Video – Louis Gohmert At CPAC: “Vietnam Was Winnable But People In Washington Decided We Would Not Win It”

Do those sound like people who are evolving and who want to reinvent themselves, broaden their appeal, and open their hearts to more Americans?

This is not a party that is making any real effort to see the errors of their ways and go out of their way to rectify them. Instead, they continue to insist on spewing infantile nastiness while still residing in an earlier century and trying to convince America that saying they’re changing is tantamount to actually changing. Some even inexplicably expressed no desire to evolve, maintaining that everything is hunky dory except the way their message is framed.

National Harbor, Maryland (CNN) — Under a large banner that proclaimed “America’s Future: The Next Generation of Conservatives,” the Oak Ridge Boys and Lee Greenwood belted out tunes such as “The Wind Beneath My Wings” and “Elvira” over back-to-back nights at the just-wrapped Conservative Political Action Conference.

Hardly Justin Bieber or Carrie Underwood.

As Republicans struggle with an intra-party feud over the direction of the party, the bold blue sign that hung over the stage here at National Harbor and the choice of artists at the evening dinners headlined by former Sen. Jim DeMint and former Gov. Jeb Bush seemed to send a mixed message. [...]

But Republicans lost the 18-29-year-old vote by a 23-point margin in the 2012 presidential race. … [T]hey agree on this point: Recruiting younger voters to the GOP is a priority. “Elvira” doesn’t seem to be the appropriate rallying cry.

Note to conservatives: It’s not just about the music, which would be yet another cosmetic patch to slap on that might appear updated, more attractive and exciting, but in reality would be too insignificant to cover deeper problems.

Younger voters support marriage equality and immigration reform, including the DREAM Act, climate change, and equal rights, to name a few. In fact, young Republicans are more liberal on social issues than most people assume. Plus, eighteen-to-29-year-olds are more likely to approve of Obama’s performance.

When young voters are more mature than the so-called party of “adults,” it’s about time for Republicans to grow up, or just grow, if that’s even possible.

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Video- Karl Rove mocks Sarah Palin: I’m may be a ‘balding fat guy,’ but ‘I wouldn’t leave office midterm’

VIDEO: Ann Coulter calls Bill Clinton a “forcible rapist” at #CPAC2013

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Thank you @MzYun for linking me to this tweet from NBC’s Domenico Montanaro (@DomenicoNBC):

tweet ann coulter bill clinton rapist

Ann Coulter:

“The keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention this year was forcible rapist, Bill Clinton.”

Did you catch the audience reaction? Everything from gasps and ooohs to laughter and applause. Yes, you all heard it, many in the audience expressed their approval of Coulter accusing former President Bill Clinton of forcible rape, loudly and clearly.

So tasteful. So family valuesy. So rational. Add that to Sarah Palin and Jeb Bush commenting on the failures of their fellow Republicans and it is crystal clear that this party is in total disarray, and that CPAC has allowed them to strut their deranged stuff for the whole world to see.

Additionally, I’m sure rape victims everywhere (not to mention the Clintons) got a real kick out of Ann’s little remark. Of course, she’d deny that there’s a GOP war on women (or anything else, for that matter), but she’s there for the attention and book sales, not political correctness. Sensitivity and taste have nothing to do with her self-serving agenda.

Coulter’s oral flatulence urped up so many offensive things that I lost count. I will not post the entire video (nor did I watch it), so you’ll have to find it for yourselves; but if you do, make sure you have some Valium and/or a good stiff drink and/or some Pepto Bismol handy.

family values my ass

#CPAC2013 straw poll results

grasping at straws

Via an email alert from Politico:

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul eked out a narrow victory in the Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll Saturday, with 25 percent of votes to Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s 23 percent.

The runners-up were as follows: former Sen. Rick Santorum, 8 percent; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, 7 percent; Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan, 6 percent; Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, 5 percent; Ben Carson, 4 percent; Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, 4 percent; Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, 3 percent; former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, 3 percent.

Other candidates received a combined 14 percent.

For more information… http://www.politico.com

Poor Sarah. If only she’d “stepped away from the teleprompter.” And maybe Bobby Jindal shouldn’t have made that waterboarding joke.

Of course, Chris Christie and Paul Ryan didn’t do much better, and Scott Walker and Ted Cruz continue to represent the back end of, well, everything.

The Libertarian, er, straw poll is meaningless, but it’s always worth a chuckle.

#CPAC2013 VIDEO– Jeb Bush: People think “Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker.”

jeb bush cpac 2013

Jeb Bush:

“All too often, we’re associated with being anti-everything. Way too many people believe that Republicans are anti-immigrant, anti-woman, anti-science, anti-gay, anti-worker, and the list goes on and on and on.”

Gee, ya think?

Why would that be? Republicans? Extreme and small-minded? Anti-everything? Via a post I wrote back in 2011 during the Wisconsin protests:

The GOP has no foresight or grasp of the health of our planet and wants to do away with the Environmental Protection Agency.

The GOP wants to do away with unions.

The GOP wants to do away with the middle class.

The GOP wants to do away with the Democratic party.

The GOP wants to do away with free speech and expression.

The GOP wants to do away with human dignity.

The GOP wants to do away with civility toward anyone who is not like them, meaning white and/or Christian.

The GOP wants to do away with health care for anyone but the wealthiest AmericansEspecially women’s health care.

The GOP wants to do away with allowing two people who love each other to marry each other.

The GOP wants to do away with freedom of choice.

The GOP wants to do away with taxes for the very wealthy, not to mention productive spending and job growth at the expense of the health and welfare of this country.

We need to do away with the extreme demands of the GOP.  We have no choice… but that’s exactly what they want.

Which brings us to 2012, when Mitt Romney famously said, “It would be helpful to be Latino.”

And Bobby Jindal said, “If we want people to like us, we have to like them first.”

Karl Rove’s advice to his fellow Republicans was just don’t *sound* intolerant.

And according to a Republican strategy memo, “Republicans have run out of persuadable white voters.”

Which brings me to 2013, when RNC Chair Reince Priebus wants to play hero with minorities GOP hasn’t wanted to touch with a 10-foot car elevator. Check out the list of “anti-everythings” in that post.

And let’s not forget the Rolling Stone piece that warned us, “Don’t be fooled” by the so-called GOP makeover. “Rarely has it been more dangerous.”

Finally, Jeb said this:

“We need to be larger than that.”

Insert obvious large Republican joke here. I can’t bring myself to do it. It would be too anti.