Comments for George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

George Allen is the face of diversity for the GOP

2008-09-18T18:42:19Z

I'm not even kidding. Sometimes I think these cats aren't even trying.

Comment from KevDog on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T19:04:47Z

This is fucking hysterical, another example of trying to say the same thing over and over in the hope that it will become truth. I think this might finally be a year when that shit don't fly.

I can't even laugh at this, it's so pathetic.

Comment from rikyrah on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T19:34:15Z

it was definitely a WTF moment.

Comment from Blue Moon on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T20:41:44Z

The Onion wouldn't even joke about that because as a joke it is too obvious.

Comment from Mr. Shrimp on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T20:51:47Z

Oh, you can't make this shit up. Beautiful.

That the guy even says Allen has a good record on this is the sort of thing that should land you on the psychiatrist's couch. I mean, doesn't using a racial slur publicly kind of make it tough to have a good record on diversity?

I love the defense that because most Americans probably don't know what "macaca" means, calling him out is really a smear.

Personally, I think using obscure racial epithets only shows one to be a connoisseur of the genre.

Comment from Lemar Mundane on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T23:26:51Z

TNC

This will soon to be followed by the GOP using Pat Buchanan to recruit Jewish people and Lou Dobbs to recruit Latinos.

BTW, I'd like to thank the republican party for the comedic gold that they have provided in the past week. It has taken my mind off the market crash-- and also reminds me not to let these fools anywhere near the levers ofo power.

Comment from Tessa on 2008-09-18

2008-09-18T23:50:14Z

Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?

McCain looks more and more out of touch these days, bumbling, fumbling over cue cards, fidgeting and phasing out during interviews, and a shrinking violet behind Palin on the stump.

Palin's losing her appeal to, even within her own party (a big ouch from Chuck Hagel today).

The spinsters are even losing their grip on the spin.

And now they send out George Allen (George Allen!?) to evangelize the party's commitment to minorities. What a joke. And a mistake.

It might seem ridiculous to make predictions at this point in the election cycle, but I think Obama is going to win, and win big in November.

Comment from Freedom Fry on 2008-09-18

2008-09-19T02:41:12Z

Why? Am I missing something or are Republicans absurd? Is there seriously no one else they could find?

Comment from DrDave on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T04:21:19Z

One can only hope that SR Sidarth is back in Virginia and available that day to attend the event.

Comment from iamnotstarjones on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T08:51:47Z

this is the definition of
cold blooded contempt. What? Michael Steele was too obvious?

Comment from ET on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T12:12:52Z

And the GOP wonders why they can't do better with "minorities." That's because they they are 1. so clueless as to send George Allen and/or 2. truly don't care and so send George Allen.

Comment from Deborah on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T12:50:57Z

And to think you were upset when Al Sharpton was the black spokesperson.

Freedom Fry, it's one of the many moments this season when I've thought "That isn't fair. Make the Onion think up it's own headlines."

Comment from MattF on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T13:20:54Z

Oh, but by their lights, they are trying. That's the scary thing. Allen is a sort of sports figure, in a way, right? And the coloreds love sports, right?

Comment from SeanH on 2008-09-19

2008-09-19T15:21:07Z

Am I the only one who thinks the Republicans are in for a rude awakening come November?

No. My pet theories for the past few months are that the race is only this close because the undecideds haven't made up their minds about Obama and that they're going to break late and big towards Obama if he does well in the debates.

Comment from anna perez on 2008-09-20

2008-09-21T01:12:31Z

No my friends, the GOP is counting on racism to pull it through--read the AP polling story that came out this morning. Tho' the AP says it is "racial misgivings" that may cause many White people to equate a US Senator, who's grandfather fought in Patton's army and great uncle helped liberate Nazi concentration camps, who is a former president of the Harvard Law Review, who worked and loaned his way through school, who is a devoted husband and father with these words: "lazy, boastful, violent and irresponsible" I call it what it is--racism. My question is what the hell did we do (I am an African American of Hispanic descent) to White Americans to make you think like this? Full disclosure: I have worked at the highest levels of GOP government ( Bush pere et fils, Senate, House) and corporate America.