If the black vote ever ceases voting en bloc for the Democrats, said Democrats will be utterly and permanently finished as a major political party, even by pretense. The frantic anti-GOP race-baiting we always see in the last week of an election campaign shows the Democrats have known it for at least a generation.

Blacks voting 'en bloc', "frantic anti-GOP race-baiting"? Where do you so-called "conservatives" get off with such deliberately misleading, fallacious pseudo-reasoning?

Oh, you're Republicans..

--Go figure..

Wha?

Which of those isn't completely accurate? If 90% isn't en bloc then what is?

How many times do the Dems have to play the race card before it's "race baiting?"

Hurt feelings come before facts, dontcha know. Right, Democrats? /sarcasm

(Thanks for the link, Charles.)

The empire runs free ... for now. Someday they will once again answer to the people- pity them and the Praetorian Guard which sustains them.

-Cicero

What about a Giuliani/Rice ticket? That'd sure fix Shillary's wagon, wouldn't it?

As for the following emotional appeals..

"Which of those isn't completely accurate.."
"How many times do the Dems have to play the race card.."
"Hurt feelings come before facts.."
"That'd sure fix Shillary's wagon,.."

Yeah, right.. Typical prattlings of the spoon-fed cult of the riech-wing "true believer" mind-set..

Anyone here ever read Heinlein's "If This Goes On.."?? There are some similarities..

There's no parody like self-parody. Thanks for making us all laugh, "Captain And."

In defense of the Captain, I must point out that I've known the man for more than a decade and that he is not in fact a barking moonbat.

On the other hand, dealing with the wackier fringe of the Oklahoma GOP (Tom "Death to Abortionists, Except Me" Coburn is only slightly flaky by Soonerland standards) eventually takes its toll on us all.

Ahhh, harkening back to the days when modems were modems and the denizens of the electronic yelm were not as politically motivated to resort to childish ad hominems, back when it was a small cadre of smart people huddled around dumb terminals, instead of the other way around..

As for 'self-parody', Chas can attest to my priors into such aleatoric alliterations abounding as I attested to adroit, and not so adroit, idiots..

And?

Captain And:

Dude, if you're going to violate Godwin's Law, please get some help with your German. It's 'Reich,' not 'riech.' Additionally, all German nouns are capitalized.

/German-speaker, but not German, except maybe of the woodpile variety

Oh and, by the way CA: you're workin' that 'Dowdification' thing well. I applaud you.

Henh! I see that you have the 'true believer' mind-set, accusing me of your own actions while pointing the other direction. Dowdification?

And you don't like Maureen Dowd because she said something bad about W. Bush.. Now, what was that about Godwin's Law, before the spelling 'lame?

"Which of those isn't completely accurate.."

I see no specific quanities mentioned, and ..

"How many times do the Dems have to play the race card.."

Plain and simply put, my dear Juliette, "Bullshit!" You have yet to establish, beyond a vague insinuation, that the Democrats have "played the race card" even once. Must I point out that not only do I not share your presumptions, I can and will dare to question your 'conclusions' as being somewhat doubtful in factual premises..

"Hurt feelings come before facts.."

And that insinuation is derived from precisely how much personal knowledge about me? That would likely be next to nothing, approaching zero, so might I suggest that you stick that in your innuendo?

"That'd sure fix Shillary's wagon,.."

Next time you have your brain washed, insist on a rinse cycle, you're still blowing bubbles, dear..

--And?

"It's 'Reich,' not 'riech.'"

Typos happen. I noticed on at least one occasion that The Good Captain managed to transpose the "ai" as "ia" in his name.....

Which, ironically, I fixed when I first discovered it. (I think it was the first comment he placed here.)

Still, typos do happen. Just don't go looking for that particular one.

Typos aside, are there no facts to support the "conservative" points of view that originally caused me to point out the fallacious pseudo-reasoning involved with such? Out of respect for the management, a true giant of a man, I'd prefer to not go into an on-lie evisceration of this.. /&^)

--Keeping in mind which finger I use to type the "e" with..

I so love it when conservatives gather around, and tell we African Americans we're going endorse whatever political minstrel show candidate they throw at us.
I remember the beauties about how Alan Keyes was going to "shock the world" in Illinois '04.
I remember hearing how Ezola Foster was going to "bring the black church vote" to Pat Buchanan in 2000.
I remember hearing how J.C. Watts was going to "break the back" of the Congressional Black Congress.
And now...these..."Condi Rice will get 50% of the black vote" and bringing up Rudy Giuliani, a man who declared open season on unarmed black men during his tenure as mayor in NYC.
If you right wingers would spend a little more time LISTENING to African Americans, instead of profiling them, maybe you'd understand how ridiculous you all sound.

--Cobra

Well, I think you could make a reasonable case that Alan Keyes is a few fries short of a Happy Meal, and his little carpetbagger stunt in Illinois caused me more annoyance than joy.

As for Julius Caesar Watts, I didn't trust him, but then I've had more time than most to observe him in action. Let's say he never met a dollar he didn't like.

Captian And:

And you don't like Maureen Dowd because she said something bad about W. Bush

I don't dislike Maureen Dowd for any reason (since I don't know her); I just think that she's a dishonest pundit. That you would assume that I *dislike* her because she's said "bad" things about GWB, however, says quite a bit. About your mind-reading powers, that is.

You have yet to establish, beyond a vague insinuation, that the Democrats have "played the race card" even once.

Really? I suppose the phrases "house negro" and "Aunt Jemima" and Condi Rice portrayed as Butterfly McQueen's character in "Gone With The Wind" (perpetrated by three separated public Democrat voters) are merely "vague insinuations" in your playbook. Not in mine. And, BTW, in case you aren't inclined to read my blog. I have done far more than "vaguely insinuate" that Democrats have played the race card. It's understandable that you might not want to read my offerings (I'm the one that Charles has linked to). However, if you're not so inclined, assuming what is (or isn't) there makes little sense.

"Hurt feelings come before facts.."

And that insinuation is derived from precisely how much personal knowledge about me?

Even though, I didn't mention you personally in the above bolded quote, the same is apparently true regarding your assumptions about me. However, I'm not too wound up about it.

Cheers.

And that insinuation is derived from precisely how much personal knowledge about me?

Correction: This question was asked by Captain And.

Should the Religious Right stop trying to transform the Republican party and split their vote on principle?

Y'all just silly.

I know I wouldn't want to be President if Condi was VP.
Chris Rock did a riff on the first black VP. He said, "I'd kill the president. Think of it, the first black president and all because of me. What are they going to do? Put me in jail? I'd be surrounded by black men who think I'm a hero."
(Paraphrased and curses removed)

Good old Chris Rock. I don't know if he's the spiritual heir to Richard Pryor — he's managed much the same mix of brilliant stand-up and mediocre movies — but he's probably spot-on with that observation.