It's well known that a 'gaffe' is when some politician accidentally tells the truth.
1) It's not in the best interests of the GOP for everybody who's eligible to vote to go out and vote.
2) The GOP is working very hard in many places to pass laws that effectively keep people - the big majority of whom are likely not going to vote for Repubs - away from the polls.
Here's a slightly different angle: When everybody who should vote gets to vote, we say yay, democracy - our system is healthy, and it's working the way it's supposed to work. That's what America's all about. But that's what the TeaParty Republicans are against; they're saying it's wrong for so many people to vote; they're saying there's too much democracy going on here. They're saying democracy is bad for the GOP, and so the GOP is opposed to democracy.
It just seems pretty clear, and it's pretty fucked up.
At a Dallas County GOP event last month, Bishop John Lawson asked Ken Emanuelson, a Tea Party activist, what the Republican Party was doing for African-American voters. The progressive group Battleground Texas posted audio from the event. "I'm going to be real honest with you," Emanuelson said. "The Republican Party doesn't want black people to vote if they are going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats." In Emanuelson's view, in other words, the solution to lack of support from African-American voters is to have fewer of them show up at the polls. When the inevitable criticism ensued, Emanuelson backtracked. In a post on his Facebook page, the Tea Party activist acknowledged that he "misspoke" and tried to clarify what he was getting at. "What I meant, and should have said, is that it is not, in my personal opinion, in the interests of the Republican Party to spend its own time and energy working to generally increase the number of Democratic voters at the polls, and at this point in time, nine of every ten African-American voters cast their votes for the Democratic Party."And Emanualson isn't the first Repub to say something like that.
1) It's not in the best interests of the GOP for everybody who's eligible to vote to go out and vote.
2) The GOP is working very hard in many places to pass laws that effectively keep people - the big majority of whom are likely not going to vote for Repubs - away from the polls.
Here's a slightly different angle: When everybody who should vote gets to vote, we say yay, democracy - our system is healthy, and it's working the way it's supposed to work. That's what America's all about. But that's what the TeaParty Republicans are against; they're saying it's wrong for so many people to vote; they're saying there's too much democracy going on here. They're saying democracy is bad for the GOP, and so the GOP is opposed to democracy.
It just seems pretty clear, and it's pretty fucked up.
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