Since it isn't endorsed by any candidates, it would be interesting if someone would ask each contender for the Republican nomination whether they agree with and support the message of the site or whether they think the NRSC is out of line.

makes me want to vote FOR him.

I'm not fan of Ford (he's stabbed Dean in the back way too many times for me), that site IS blatantly racist, and does attempt to portray him as an uppity black who is playing in places that he doesn't belong!

They forgot to post a picture of him drinking with his pinky up, but outside of that they hit all the racist buttons.

Breaking news: GOP racist party!

Oh... wait... everyone knows that...

They must denounce this ad immediately.  How do we draft a petition?

I say fight fire with fire!   Democrats can make better websites and we even know how to use a search engine.   If they want to hurl cheap insults than hey, we can create our own stories - even more outrageous stories - and send them off across cyberspace.  

Do to them, what they do to us.

Shouldn't the title of this be ----
  Republican Leaders AND Their Racist, Cowardly Base

But getting to the real issue - the point of this post is ABSOLUTELY true!

When droves of Southern Dems left the party in the 60's & 70's and became Republicans it was the racist Dems that left.  They built the Republican Party in the South and now run it.  To see this all you need to do is go and talk to folks in Ga & Ala. A trivial amount of leg work and this fact will be immediately apparent.

What drives me nuts is the Dems won't say so!

Harold Ford is nuts if he thinks he has a chance to be elected in the South.  The dirty fact is that its still a racist society and for his uppityness in running we are all gonna get treated to taste of that -

Jim Welker, A Colorado Legislator is in hot water today for his email forward of a racist screed by talk show host Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson. RockyMountainNews.com

A Loveland lawmaker has been blasted by his colleagues for e-mailing an essay written by someone else that accused "welfare-pampered blacks" of waiting for the government to save them from Hurricane Katrina.

Rep. Jim Welker, a Republican, said Thursday morning that he forwarded the article because of its message about society victimizing people by making them dependent on government programs.

He said he didn't agree with everything in the essay.

One passage says, "President Bush is not to blame for the rampant immorality of blacks."

Essay author Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, who is black, is praised on one Web site for taking on the NAACP, a "tool of the largely 'elite, socialist' Democratic Party."

Carroll said Peterson has "made his whole career shilling for the hard right."

Welker last year took heat from his own caucus for saying he feared that if gays were allowed to marry, then people might eventually marry their animals. Republicans said they were embarrassed by his comments.

For a site that claims to have the dirt on him, there really isn't a load of content there.

Hmmm...

I'm assuming they would be nicer to him if he had followed the Senator Ryan route and just taken his wife to a strip club on his own dime.

Bob Dole yesterday (just saw on cspan3 10 minutes ago):

Q:  Do you give to charities?

A:  I give some to the Negro College Fund, for those students with disabilities...

Oh, so you have to be black and disabled?  I'm sure that's not what he meant, but telling.

The whole thing is very well thought out--How to leave a very negative impression with the voter that will stick.

I don't want our party to stoop to this kind of behavior.  Even if it means losing.  I believe eventually the higher moral ground will pay off.  I may be in the minority here.

I saw this at firedoglake:

"So why use the word fancy?

Well, according to Encarta:

fancy man

noun

1. woman's lover: the lover or boyfriend of a woman, especially a married woman (dated informal)
   
2. Same as pimp
   

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/

of the Republican Party has come from their use of racism.  And there are plenty of examples of racist Republicans now.  But that does not give anyone the right to say that all Republican voters are racist, or worse, that all constituencies represented by a Republican are racist.  I hear all the time that Southerners are racist.  That's a horrible stereotype and I often get a little pissed off when I hear it.

Sarah

This shows me the Republicans are scared, if they lose the Tennessee seat they lose the Senate, and they are going to fight hard on this one.

I live in Ford's district & yeah I'd agree he's lost touch with his supporters. He helped the republicans pass the bankruptcy reform & renewed the patriot act.

Republicans took down Speaker Foley in a similar fashion - by stoking the fires of Internet activism.

This trick can by used against Republicans by the web-enabled amongst us.

--mm

The Republicans love retaliating against those who speak out against their failed choices by viciously and falsely attacking those people.

This is yet another example of that.

However, they are not going to get away with it this time.

Harold Ford Jr. represents a better future for all Tennesseeans and the Republicans know that.

Attacks like these on the Congressman will not stand because the people of Tennessee's desire for change carries far more weight than any attack the Republicans can issue.

We will not stand up for it!

Hey guys, I have had a grassroots blog for the Congressman since mid last year.  The blogs are playing a huge part in this campaign already!

Please stop by and post in support of the Congressman!

http://haroldfordjr2006.blogspot.com/

I read David Broder's syndicated column in the Oregonian today and the last few paragraphs were devoted to the fact that Chuck Schumer jumped on the Dubai ports deal quickly despite the fact there were "racist" overtones in the panning of the deal. He warned Schumer to be careful about associating himself with this.

So I'm thinking the Republican Party has been running the "southern strategy" in elections for 40 years, White racists are nearly universally Republican (though Republicans are not universally white racist). Bush suggests that the resistance to the ports deal is "racist" which somehow becomes fact just because Bush said it despite multiple counts of evidence that the UAE has problems beyond their Arab-ness.

But it's the Democrats that need to be careful about playing the racist/xenophobia card.

Once again, Broder takes a purely Republican problem and makes it the fault of the Democrats. What a hack.

As they say, not all republicans are racists, but all racists are republicans. So many of the wingers I know are that way because they don't want their money going to "people who have less" than they do (read: minorities). Thay don't mind their money going to the "haves and have mores", however. Bunch of schmucks!

Its clear that the Republican Party has become the last refuge of WASPs (White Anglo-Saxon Protestant) men who are sore at losing control of "their" country, and who don't work well with people of other races unless they're what Indians call "apples," red on the outside, but white inside. Bush surrounds himself with apples (Condolezza Rice, Alberto Gonzales) to conceal his racist agenda, and they have been seduced into denying the evidence of their eyes.

Its the same thing in Congress, and now in the Supreme Court. All that talk of "values" is, of course, abaout the values of the McGuffey Readers that used to be THE American school textbook in states dominated by WASP power structures.

Its the same in foreign policy, where Osama Bin Laden snookered Bush into a Race War that Bush fell for, hook, line and sinker. The "America" they are defending is the America run by WASP men in Executive Suites and other Corridors of Power.

Now I'm a WASP myself, but I recognize that to live and work in this world, we need to live and work with people who are different from ourselves, and we need to understand our neighbors, and work with them on common goals.

Bob

The site maybe racist but Ford is no prize. He is a Liebermanite.  Kurita is a much better candidate.