We live in strange times. Do you remember Charles Pickering?
I really hope you do. He was appointed by Bush to serve on the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in 2001 but the Democrats blocked him in committee. He was reappointed in 2003 but the Democrats filibustered him. Finally, Bush gave him a recess appointment, but he retired when it became clear that he’d never be confirmed by the Senate.
Why were the Democrats so insistent that this man not serve on the federal bench?
Well, he had a history of doing cute things like reducing the sentences of convicted cross-burners, but there was also this:
[Carroll] Gartin’s papers show conclusively that, contrary to [Mitch] McConnell’s description, Pickering himself was one of those “white citizens and politicians who resisted integration and civil rights,” not someone working to oppose such forces. Instead of “trying to establish better race relations” in the 1960s, Pickering worked to support segregation, attack civil rights advocates who sought to end Jim Crow, and back those who opposed national civil rights legislation, above all the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964. Or, in the words of a public statement he signed in 1967, Pickering wanted to preserve “our southern way of life,” and he bitterly blamed civil rights workers for stirring up “turmoil and racial hatred” in the South.
Charles Pickering has just been announced as the chairman Ben Carson’s campaign in Mississippi.
Now isn’t that politically correct?
at a certain point the political observer just starts flashing TILT and has to give up.
has it ever been truer about strange bedfellows?
yeah, pretty much.
Who’s making the bigger transgression here, Pickering or Carson?
We can’t imagine that this will help Carson hang onto the “17-18 percent” support his business manager claims The Nutty Surgeon enjoys among African-American voters:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/08/why-ben-carson-is-white-america-s-perfect-black-can
didate.html
Here’s the parts of this reporting I find most persuasive:
“”Now, I think many black Americans look upon Dr. Carson with a mix of puzzlement and disappointment,” Reid said. “The fact that he has made himself nationally prominent by insulting the first black president of the United States, and that he is now building on that with strange utterance after strange utterance leaves many African-Americans just shaking their heads.”…
“[Carson is a] vessel that alleviates some aversion guilt,” Democratic pollster Cornell Belcher asserted. “Most mainstream, middle-class Americans don’t want to vote for racists. There is something inoculating about Carson.””
Have they scheduled the Citizens’ Council March on Washington with De. Ben Carson at the head of the parade?
This is like an Israeli Zionist hiring Nazi SS advisers. Oh, wait …
Ben Carson: The only black candidate who could win the support of the KKK. A uniter, not a divider.
Things are getting curiouser and curiouser, eh? Next thing we know Trump will be taking little bites out of different sides of a mushroom.
Can’t wait.
AG
Is this a surprise to any political junkie? I hope not.
I remember Pickering, and now I witness Carson.
Case of: I scratch your back, you scratch mine.
Both are making money from this alliance. No doubt Pickering is holding his nose & show great distaste but willing to do whatever it takes, like the good little whore he is. Carson? Who knows what goes on in his mind? Hard to say. Weird stuff, no doubt, but probably doesn’t mind being aligned with Pickering, I’d guess.
Maybe they’ve both evolved. But then, the Carson stickers I’ve seen here in my Southern state were affixed to those big white diesel fueled pickup trucks and driven by white guys. I’m mostly puzzled by it all…..But, Rachel gave some historical perspective the other night. ‘Tis not the first time that the GOP primary process was a raucous affair with odd alliances and name calling.
They love their Uncle Toms.
Figures.
That I guess means that David Duke is Carson’s Louisiana chair.
And the Westboro Baptist Church is stumping for him in Kansas.
Where is Louise Day Hicks when you need to take Massaschusetts? Or Lester Maddox for Georgia?
Cahoots Paw
On a similar note, wasn’t James Eastland available? (Oh, wait…he’s supporting Cruz.)
well I was waiting for the real campaign to start; now decided it isn’t a presidential campaign at all, it is Booman’s long predicted demise of the R party. and Jeb! the War of our time!!?? is it before the gates of Minas Tirith (the Mundburg)?
one can only hope. your version makes me wish i was good enough in photoshop to create the image: Hillary with armor and sword, killing the Nazgul. No living man can kill it, but a woman is here.
i see the demise of the R party, if it ever gets here, not as a glorious battle but more like the Fall of the House of Usher, caving in and sinking into the swamp.
yes, good idea; I’m no good with photoshop. Janicket photoshopped Ruth Bader Ginsburg killing the Nazgul witch king complete with Die Now!!! caption!
Didn’t do it myself, friend; lifted the image from somewhere on the Internet. I too lack such critical online skills.
Ah, well. and we definitely need the “die now” caption before the klown kar process accidentally makes one of its occupants president
it could be rephrased as “fade away, now” or “go the way of the whigs, now”