The most long lasting consequence of this election will be the fact that if Mitt Romney wins, he will appoint at least two, possibly three, Supreme Court justices. And, Romney has said that he will appoint justices who would rule to strike down Roe v. Wade.
This would mean another entire generation of a very conservative Supreme Court, with all of the relentless backward progress that would bring. Just the thought makes me sick.
On Morning Joe today, along with RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, Chris Matthews responded to Republican criticism on the negative campaigning by Obama by tearing into Priebus. Matthews focused on the lies emanating from the Romney Campaign that focus on race baiting (the welfare ads, and Pres. Obama’s birth certificate):
“ I have to call you on this, Mr. Chairman. But they've both been negative. That cheap shot about 'I don't have a problem with my birth certificate' was awful. It is an embarrassment to your party to play that card.
You can play your games and giggle about it but the fact is it’s your side playing that card. When you start talking about work requirements, you know what game you're playing and everybody knows what game you're playing. It's a race card and yeah, if your name's Romney, yeah you were well born, you went to prep school, yeah, brag about it. This guy has an African name and he's got to live with it. Look who's gone further in their life. Who was born on third base? Making fun of the guy's birth certificate issue when it was never a real issue except for the right wing.”
Watch the video:
Just a couple of weeks ago, the editorial board of the Des Moines Register also called attention to Romney’s race baiting:
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee wants voters to conjure images in their minds of freeloading moms sitting on couches watching big screen televisions. And he wants voters to think the president is helping them do just that ... but the idea of anyone 'sponging off the system' is apparently something Romney believes voters will rally behind him to oppose. He may be right.
Republicans have a long history of using race in their politics, the past detailed in this 2010 piece by Bob Cesca on the “Southern Strategy” [a must read for anyone serious about politics in this time].
In all honesty, Romney’s campaign strategy most concerns me because it’s based entirely on telling lies. That some of the lies employ the tactic of race baiting just makes it that much worse.
That said, we need to beat the crap out of Mitt Romney in November, both to win the brilliant, decent man who is our president another term, but also to prevent the Republicans and their candidate-without-honor from completing the final destruction of the democracy we love.
MATTHEWS: You would have voted against that law. You wouldn’t have voted for the ’64 civil rights bill.
PAUL:Yes, but not in — I wouldn’t vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.
MATTHEWS: But you would have voted for the — you know you — oh, come on. Honestly, Congressman, you were not for the ’64 civil rights bill.
PAUL:Because — because of the property rights element, not because it got rid of the Jim Crow law.
MATTHEWS: Right. The guy who owns a bar says, no blacks allowed, you say that’s fine. … This was a local shop saying no blacks allowed. You say that should be legal?
PAUL:That’s — that’s ancient history. That’s ancient history. That’s over and done with. [...]
MATTHEWS: Let me ask you this. We have had a long history of government involvement with Medicare, Social Security, the Civil Rights Act, the Voting Rights Act. And I think you are saying we would have been better off without all that?
PAUL: I think we would be better off if we had freedom, and not government control of our lives, our personal lives, and our — and policing the world.
Watch:
Can we just say that this has to qualify as one of the dumbest quotes ever from a contender for a presidential nomination?
The bonafide lunacy of Randian disciples and their leader Ron Paul isn't exactly news, but given the embarrassing nature of the current Republican presidential field and the Libertarian under-current running through the veins of the Tea Party right now, Ron Paul could become a significant 3rd Party candidate if not the actual nominee.
Of course, I would love, love, love to see a third party Conservative candidate, or… let me be honest, I would also love to see Ron Paul as the GOP nominee!
If we look at the collection of friends that Barack Obama has had in his life, it calls into question what Barack Obama's true beliefs and values and thoughts are. His attitudes, values, and beliefs with Jeremiah Wright on his view of the United States...is negative; Bill Ayers, his negative view of the United States. We have seen one friend after another call into question his judgment -- but also, what it is that Barack Obama really believes?
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