Likewise, if Carson is going to play the we conservatives hereby declare that Martin Luther King, Jr. was a conservative, so shut up card, hes going to have to bring something less hoary than the Abraham Lincoln was a Republican talking point. I suspect [MLKs] biggest criticisms would be that [modern Republicans] have not really reached out very much, said Carson. I think probably his second criticism of the Republican Party [would be] that they don’t talk about what they’ve done. They don’t talk about the fact that the Republican Party was established as the abolition party. [...] They dont talk about the fact that Frederick Douglass was a Republican, that Booker T. Washington was a Republican, that George Washington Carver was a Republican, Martin Luther King, Sr. was a Republican, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican. [...] On the other hand, Martin Luther King, Jr.s biggest criticism of the modern Republican Party might be the Republican presumption that he and all other black Americans were such staggering morons that they would be willing to ditch their struggles for civil rights, voting rights, fair wages, desegregated schools and so forth if someone had only pointed out that the party viciously fighting all of those things could once boast Abraham Lincoln and Booker T. Washington. Yes, the parties have switched stances over these long decades. You may have heard about it, given that it has been the single most defining feature of electoral politics in the last half-century. I do not like how the Republican presidential race is shaping up. It is shaping up to be dull, and rote, and stupid, none of which is good for America regardless of what party you attach yourself to because America does not need any more political campaigns to be dull, rote, or stupid. The point of having newcomers like Mr. Dr. Ben Carson pop onto the scene would be to shake things out of their usual routine, which cannot be done when the newcomers spout the same achingly tired, insipid nonsense that the party stalwarts have drawled out for years. All right, Mr. Dr. Ben Carson, weve established you want to be president. And you would be better at the job than a collection of needlepointed motivational quotes because why, precisely?
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 01:47:30 +0000
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