Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Niki Haley, GOP Apologist & Romney Surogate
is Tone Deaf to the Majority, Especially Women

She's backpedalling, but not nearly fast enough.
The right is too intransigent to learn from their mistakes, to ideologically extreme to adjust or meet the rest of the world on common ground to form a consensus.
It is hurting them badly, and their war on women will continue to hurt them.  It is the recognition of the harm they've done to their party with this course of action, their culture war, that has prompted them to trot out a token woman on women's issues, the way they trot out their token minority members on issues relating to race and ethnicity.  In Haley's case, she's turning off the very people she's been sent out like a good little soldier to recruit and persuade.
However they try to spin it, the GOP is a party overwhelmingly of white people trying to preserve their dominance in the status quo, and overwhelmingly acting on behalf of corporations, the wealthiest 1% of individuals, and the corporate special interests that keep those few individuals disproportionately wealthy while pay for the average employee is stagnant or declines, or their jobs disappear entirely.  At the same time, they do their best to reduce or eliminate the control of the company owners, the individual shareholders, who have less and less control over their boards of directors and their executive officers, and their decisions. 
The GOP is the party that promotes and protects the outsourcing of jobs by the private sector, this is a party that embraces racism and exploitation.  The GOP is NOT the party of job creation. 
The GOP is the party that sells out the American citizen through the corruption of big money.The GOP is the party of polarization and division rather than consensus. The GOP is the party of obfuscation and secrecy rather than transparency.
Here is the telegenic Niki Haley trying to do damage control on the View for the GOP and for Romney, but mostly doing more damage in the process, not less.  Good job, Joy Behar!



And while we're on the topic - it should be ILLEGAL to fly this flag of treason and insurrection over any state buildings, in any form, in any southern state. It should generate as much opposition as if it were a Nazi flag or the flag of any other notorious fascist or authoritarian government. It is an insult to every person who is loyal to the government of the Untied States, and in particular an insult to every descendant of slaves.  Every day this flag appears anywhere that is public property, anytime it appears in conjunction with the authority or property of the state of South Carolina, it is an offense, and it is promoting continuing racism.

Joe Long is the curator of education at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia.
"A flag is a symbol and one of the peculiar things about a symbol is that there's the message that someone is trying to convey and there's the message that somebody else picks up. It's not always the same message," Long said.
Long said that the battle flag was used because the Confederate army was having a hard time recognizing the Confederacy's official National flag. Today the battle flag remains the most recognized symbol of the Confederacy.
"When they put the flag up in 1961 the official message then was that it was for the centennial the 100-year anniversary of the war, Randolph said. "However even though they gave that message a lot of people nation wide took it as a thumb in the eye of the federal government involving the civil rights movement."
Dr. Daniel Littlefield is a history professor and researcher for African American studies. Littlefield said it is important to know that the confederate flag also represents a time of resistance to integration.

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I have no problem with recognizing this period of our NATIONAL history, but to do so in a way which conveys support for the confederacy, which acted illegally and which came into existence in large part to continue slavery out of fear it might end even sooner than it would otherwise, NO, that is wrong.  The Confederacy does not deserve that respect or honor.  It is the flag of a defeated enemy of the United States.

4 comments:

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  2. Just curious, do you know how far the Augusta National Golf Club extends into South Carolina ?

    In case your readers are not familiar with the Club, it is a private club where members determine who gets to join. President Dwight Eisenhower was a member ... as well as a number of state Governors ... current Georgia Governor Nathan Deal lunches there ... if he is not a member, odds are good that he would be invited, but Governor Nicky Haley might have a problem since NO WOMEN have ever been invited to join.

    Which brings up the question of the role of women in RomneyLand ? You have seen the picture from his Bain days ... clenching dollars bills with his fellow workers .... and did you notice that all were men ?
    Any idea (besides Kerry Healy as the Lt.Gov) how many women had leadership roles in his Massachusetts administration ? Remember, Romney beat the incumbent Governor Jane Swift to get the Republican nomination prior to the general election.
    And, do not forget how as Leader of the Morman faith in Massachusetts, he encouraged women to give up children if they were not married.
    The role of women in his faith is one that he probably would not like to discuss as illustrated earlier this week when he was asked about his faith's views on interracial marriage.

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  3. I was always under the impression that the golf course was on or very near the South Carolina border, but did not cross it, and couldn't find anything that indicates it straddles the border.

    I firmly believe that people like Herman Cain and Ms. Haley are quite willing to go along to get along, and if that means being someone's token, then so be it. I think it would be fascinating to see how many of the important players at Bain were women; I don't think it's many.

    It is a significant difference that Ann Romney, unlike Hillary Clinton or Michele Obama, was a stay at home mom, who did the usual rich trophy wife things like charities, and elitist sports like competitive dressage riding. While I certainly understand her not working during her illnesses, it does suggest that Mitts full o'Money Romney believes in the wife at home, not in the work place or politics view of women.

    I don't imagine that Romney wants to talk about certain aspects of his family history at all, not only his polygamous grandfather or that his father was a Mexican citizen by birth either. At least greedy Mitts was born here.

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  4. I imagine that Mitts also doesn't want to talk about leading a life of luxury during the Viet Nam war, spending it in France, HERE - photo with story. The caption reads:

    For most of 1968, Mr Romney lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the French capital’s chic 16th arrondissement

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/us-election/8959410/US-election-2012-Mitt-Romney-Mormon-missionary-in-France.html?image=6

    But the Republican presidential hopeful spent a significant portion of his 30-month mission in a Paris mansion described by fellow American missionaries to The Daily Telegraph as “palace”. It featured stained glass windows, chandeliers, and an extensive art collection. It was staffed by two servants – a Spanish chef and a houseboy.

    Although he spent time in other French cities, for most of 1968, Mr Romney lived in the Mission Home, a 19th century neoclassical building in the French capital’s chic 16th arrondissement. “It was a house built by and for rich people,” said Richard Anderson, the son of the mission president at the time of Mr Romney’s stay. “I would describe it as a palace”.

    Tearful as he described the house, Mr Anderson, 70, of Kaysville, Utah, said Romney aides had asked him not to speak publicly about their time together there.

    The building, on Rue de Lota, was bought by the Mormons in 1952, having been seized by the Nazis during the Second World War. The Church sold it again in the 1970s, and it was until recently the embassy of the United Arab Emirates. It is currently worth as much as $12 million (£7.7 million).

    Mr Romney moved into the building following a stay in Bordeaux, after being promoted to assistant to the president, Duane Anderson. He arrived in the spring of 1968, weeks before Paris erupted into riots, and returned to the US that December. He was given a room on the third floor.

    “They were very big rooms,” said Christian Euvrard, the 72-year-old director of the Mormon-run Institute of Religion in Paris, who knew Mr Romney. “Very comfortable. The building had beautiful gilded interiors, a magnificent staircase in cast iron, and an immense hall.”

    I understand the funder of the Swift Boat propaganda lies is now funding Mitt's PACs and campaign.

    I wonder if anyone on the opposing side will reverse-Swift Boat Mitt over HIS Viet Nam era service? Reverse-Swift boat, as in being truthful and factual, addressing Mitt's avoidance of military service, his misrepresentation of how he lived in France while ordinary, less affluent American male contemporaries were in jungles being killed.

    Doesn't make for a very good image as commander in chief. But hey, he'd be right at home on that Augusta golf course, although I'm sure they wouldn't let Ann play or join......or Niki Haley.

    I have problems with the current direction of conservatives, especially the religious right, for requiring people to lie, or to believe lies. I don't believe any religion can or should require you to believe something that is not true. If facts differ from religious teaching, religion has to conform to objective reality, and we have to acknowledge where it has in the past been morally wrong as well - like the Spanish inquisition, like the denial of the facts in the oppression of Galileo.

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