The Problem with the Republican Party, for the Foreseeable Future

[Content Note: Racism.]Politico—Bobby Jindal Rejects Mitt Romney's 'Gifts' Theory: "Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal [who's Indian American] vigorously declined Mitt Romney's declare that he lost due to Leader Barack Obama's 'gifts' to unprivileged and youthful voters. Requested concerning the unsuccessful GOP nominee's reported comments on the business call with contributor earlier Wednesday, the incoming chairman from the Republican Governors Association grew to become noticeably irritated. 'No, I believe that's absolutely wrong,' he stated in a press conference that opened up the RGA's publish-election meeting."Tigard Press Herald—Maine Republican Chairman Questions Black Voters: "Maine Republican Party Chairman Charlie Webster is once more alleging possible voting problems, this time around declaring that categories of unknown black people turned up in certain rural cities to election on Election Day. ... 'In certain parts of rural Maine, there have been dozens, a large number of black individuals who arrived and chosen on Election Day,' he stated. 'Everybody includes a to election, but nobody in (these) cities knows anybody who's black. How did which happen? I'm not sure. We are likely to discover.' When Carrigan pressed Webster on where it happened, Webster provided no specifics or evidence of his claims, but stated the party would investigate further."Think Progress—Fox News Captions Footage of Illegal Border Crossings with 'The Hispanic Vote': "Since Mitt Romney lost the Hispanic election in record amounts on Election Day, some Republican congress and conservative commentators have freely conceded the party includes a 'rhetoric' problem if this involves the Latino election and also have begun promoting for comprehensive immigration reform. However, the GOP's new-found eagerness to attract Latinos required a success on Thursday mid-day when Fox News went a segment about 'The Hispanic Election in 2012' and proceeded to exhibit stock footage of individuals crossing the border unlawfully."Mother Jones—Top Georgia GOP Congress Host Briefing on Secret Obama Mind-Control Plot: "Leader Obama's utilizing a Cold War-era mind-control technique referred to as 'Delphi' to coerce People in america into accepting his arrange for a Un-run communist dictatorship by which suburbanites is going to be intentionally moved to metropolitan areas. That's based on a four-hour briefing shipped to Republican condition senators in the Georgia condition Capitol recently.InchBelieve Progress—McCain Missed a Briefing on Benghazi to carry a Press Conference: "Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) is demanding a unique choose committee to research the occasions prior to the deaths of 4 People in america in Benghazi, Libya and it has held around-the-clock television looks pressing for an entire overview of the incident. But all the senator's media interviews and press availabilities might be disturbing his capability to gather details about the big event. On Thursday morning, CNN's Dana Party reported that McCain made a decision to hold some pot press conference with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) instead of attend a closed-door briefing concerning the attacks."If you feel condition Republicans accusing Leader Obama of insidious mind control and Republican US Senators shirking their responsibilities to try and frame like a cover-up what a nice income states would be a pretty typical intelligence clusterfuck following a terrorist attack on the other hand from the globe don't belong on a listing of racist shenanigans, I'll just briefly realize that Republicans did not appear very worried about propaganda and bad apple whenever a whitened guy was at charge. And I am thinking that isn't simply because he performed for his or her team.