Why do Republicans play the Race and s*x Cards when it suits them?

Question

The Press looking into the inadequacies of the VP nominee is called Sexism...

Calling Obama a muslim and anti-American is an attempt at Race baiting...

It just keeps on and on...

Answer 1

I've never called Obama a Muslim, though attending that "church" isn't very Christian, either. His friend and mentor is anti-American, but Obama can't be? Do you have any White Republicans as YOUR mentor? Didn't think so. We choose our mentors because we want to be like them. Further, Obama tends to use the race card when things aren't going the right way. The "I don't look like the other Presidents on the dollar bills" is an example. The quotations I have from his first book are nothing but racist. If one has a history of racist writing and speech, people will think s/he is racist.

Those who are making sexist comments about the VP nominee should be called sexist. Legitimate concerns are not sexist. You can't think that some of these nasty comments are sexist.

This is why....

From Dreams of My Father:

” I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.

From ‘Dreams of my Father:

“The emotion between the races could never be pure….. The other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart.”

From ‘Dreams of My Father:

“I ceased to advertise my mother’s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”

From Dreams Of My Father:

“never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. It was into my father’s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I’d packed all the attributes I sought in myself..”.

From Dreams Of My Father:

“That hate hadn’t gone away,” he wrote, blaming “white people — some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

From Dreams Of My Father:

“There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs,” he wrote. “It remained necessary to prove which side you were on,to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names”

From Dreams Of My Father:

“I had grown accustomed, everywhere, to suspicions between the races.”

Are these not racist?

Answer 2

B/c they only like political correctness when it suits them.  They can dish out the insults, but cannot take it.  

Answer 3

It's not a question of what suits who. It's a question of facts. Attempting to smear a legitimate female candidate for familiy issues is blatant sexism. That's a fact!  And while everyone knows Obama is not a muslim, he did espouse (for 20 years!) to the beliefs of a militant, racist preacher bent on dragging America through the mud. That's not "race baiting" that is simply a fact.

Answer 4

Obama is anti-American.Bill Ayers anybody?

Answer 5

Same reason the Dems do... it suits them... :/

It has been happening on both sides... how many question have there been in this forum alone asking if people were (not) going to vote for Obama because he is black?

Answer 6

Hypocrisy is the name of their game

Answer 7

Because its true. Thats why.

Answer 8

Um, just because you guys say that republicans say something doesnt mean they did. Im not a republican or a democrat, but I sure as h**l have never heard a republican say any of those things.

I think you want to think republicans think those things.  

Answer 9

People like you keep on pushing it.  Obama himself admitted that he did not like Clarence Thomas.  Get the facts right & don't make trouble among the American people.

Answer 10

For the same reason the Left plays the 'Age' card...it suits them as well.

Palin at 44 is too young yet magically Obama at 47 is old enough.

McCain at 72 is too old yet magically Biden at 65 is old enough.

Thanks for the giggles hypocrits!

Answer 11

They did the same thing regarding the filibuster.  When the Democrats were in the minority in Congress, they threatened to vote to do away with the filibuster in the Senate to stop the Democrats from blocking some extreme right wing judges that Bush wanted to appoint as federal judges.

The Republicans at the time stated that the filibuster was the worst thing to ever happen to the Senate.  Yet, when the tables turned a few months later the Republicans used the filibuster theirselves to stop the Democrats.  Richard Lugar was one of the senators pushing for the filibuster to be done away with and he had used it over 20 times in the past and used it only about 2 weeks later to stop the Democrats winning a vote on stem cell research.

And of course when Hillary was the front runner for the president, they said a woman didn't have what it took to be president.  They mentioned how a woman's period might affect decisions, etc.  Now Palin is getting picked on for her lack of experience and the Republicans want to call it sexism.

Answer 12

Saying that because she is a mother and can't be V.P. is sexist. Goes against everything the feminazis stand for. Your side is racist. How is calling him a muslim racist? I thought Islam was a religion not a race. Hmm. Calling him anti-American is race baiting. That's also a new one. Obviously you are the racist. You want this to be about race. You want us to say it is about race. Well it isn't. Its about Obama being wrong. Color not required.

Answer 13

I haven't heard anyone claim sexism, and yet, racism gets brought up again, not by the republicans but yet another democrat.

Answer 14

Eeeh...And who's calling McCain "Bush III"? As far as I know, Messrs McCain and Bush don't have a whole lot in common.

Answer 15

Repugs believe the ends justify the means. They are so terrified of anybody that doesn't worship at the Church of Trickle Down Economics that they'll do anything to tear them down. Up to and including lying and cheating.

They picked Palin so they could play the victim card, that's what Repugs do best.

You also can't criticize McCain at all because he's a POW.