Racists Do Not Belong in the Conservative Movement

From ABC News:

The opening-night speaker at first ever National Tea Party Convention ripped into President Obama, Sen. John McCain and "the cult of multiculturalism," asserting that Obama was elected because "we do not have a civics, literacy test before people can vote in this country." The speaker, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., told about 600 delegates in a Nashville, Tenn., ballroom that in the 2008 election, America "put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House ... Barack Hussein Obama."

The reference to literacy tests says it all. After Civil Rights was instituted in the 1960's, and the practice of conducting literacy tests in the South was effectively ended, racist elements in the United States fell back on subtle "code words" to push their racist views. Lately, however, racists have been emboldened and, as illustrated here, the code words are out, and the real meanings and intents are back.

I for one, do not believe that Obama's plans for America are the right ones, and I will always fight against them. But let's call a spade a spade, and tell it like it is. Some of the Obama bashers (not all of them, but some of them, and I want to make that crystal clear), are dedicated racists, and a few (Such as O'Keefe) have long-time connections to white supremacist groups. As the uncle of two wonderful kids who are the product of a mixed marriage (and a wonderful one, too), I will fight against these vermin, just as hard, if not harder than I will fight against Obama's policies. If I have my way, these kooks will not gain so much as a foothold inside the Republican party.

To the creeps who are attempting to infiltrate and poison the mainstream Conservative movement - The gloves are off. Not in MY house, you sonofabitches.

Fishing for ACORNs

In the wake of the arrest of James O’Keefe in Louisiana, where he was caught tampering with the phones of Senator Mary Landrieu, along with revelations which reveal that O’Keefe had been illegally taping conversations in other states, while attempting to entrap ACORN workers into giving illegal advise, Republicans need to reexamine the methods that they supported in their attempt to cast ACORN as an organization that rigs elections.

In a lawsuit, filed in Philadelphia last month, the Director for ACORN contends that O’Keefe aggressively attempted to entrap ACORN employees into giving illegal election advice, while surreptitiously taping the conversations. The plaintiffs in similar lawsuits in other states make the same charges. It seems that O’Keefe’s MO has been to attempt to create crimes where crimes did not previously exist. This is known as entrapment, and is clearly illegal. If any employees of ACORN did engage in illegal activities on their own, then they should be prosecuted. Let’s take a look at how ACORN is handling actual allegations of voter fraud, and judge them on that basis. However, anyone who attempts to create a crime in order to bring about a criminal prosecution is himself a criminal, and should be just as aggressively prosecuted. O’Keefe, and those like him, are a cancer on American values.

The Republican Party calls itself patriotic. If the GOP is truly patriotic, then its members need to denounce O’Keefe and his un-American games. And, if the GOP truly loves America, then it will not support such un-American attempts to defame fellow Americans, whose only crime is to believe differently than they do. The GOP doesn’t support tactics from the playbook of the old Soviet KGB, do they? Or do they? Its actions, in the next few days, or weeks, will answer that question.

Where ACORN has done wrong, let it pay for its actions, and by the same token, let James O'Keefe pay for his. And I also sincerely hope that Republicans kick O'Keefe's ass to the curb quickly, and denounce him for his activities, which were clearly un-American.