Tancredo: Obama Won Because of No Literacy Test

Sarah Palin spoke at the Tea Party convention on Saturday night in Nashville and she wants to be a part of the movement. Does she really want to associate herself with such bigotry? Given how she didn’t condemn people at her rallies shouting “Kill him” (at Obama) and racial epithets, I guess she does want to. And don’t forget her husband Todd’s association with the Alaskan Secessionist Party.

I think Palin is doing what’s best for Palin—taking $100k to say stupid stuff and then going back to Fox news. Apparently she had to write down key things that she’s against (“taxes”) and for (“energy”) on her hand so that she would remember them during a Q & A session on the stage.

She’s not ready to run for President and I betcha even she knows it. Right now she’s getting paid by the tea-partiers, plain and simple. She’ll either get good at it and be Geraldo or bad at it and end up on the radio in Denver.

I don’t blame Palin for taking the money either. She has to be laughing and saying to herself I can’t believe anyone remains who is stupid enough to either pay me big money or assume I have the ability to run a big country or business. The world must be full of nuts. Wangnuts that is!

I watched a little bit of her speech. She was better last year when she had the GOP to write her speech for her, and she wasn’t aware that you had to know certain things to be viable and acceptable by the masses. Since she now knows this, she was tentative and out of her usual modes of just dropping funny or catchy quips or lines. She was quixotic as usual but less appealing with the new look. Only a hard up and desperate person would work for the tea-raggers anyway, in my opinion.

I looked for a few black people in the audience but didn’t see any, which surprised me, because I know too well that if certain people started to eating feces, it wouldn’t be too long before an uncle tom type person rushed the party and started gleefully eating too and proclaiming I be damn it I’m gonna let them eat it all up from me.

Walt, there was one black woman who was at the tea party. She was interviewed on CNN. She also happens to be running as a Republican candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s 9th Congressional district. That district is entirely in Shelby County (Memphis) and is the most Democratic district in the state.

Golden Eagle, I think you are right on the money. I saw this yesterday and just had to shake my head. Tancredo’s sentiment has been expressed in conservative circles for some time. While most people in the south think of literacy/ civics tests as part of Jim Crow. I have seen it expressed more in terms of keeping stupid/ ignorant people or people who didn’t understand our form of government from voting. It’s a frustration factor sort of like what Baquan was talking about with his lazy minded remark.

We are so divided in this country that a lot of people are sure the opposition is just stupid. That they wouldn’t believe in that stuff they were espousing if only they were smarter. While there is certainly a little of that, those people who thought Dubya should get their vote because they would like to share a beer with him or those that voted for Clinton because he was more attractive physically than Bob Dole. What Tancredo fails to realize and I think what even Obama fails to realize is that the absence of literacy tests didn’t get the President elected. The absence of leadership and good sense from Bush II got him elected. He wasn’t elected any more than the Republicans were fired for treating the government like their own personal piggy bank and almost sinking the economy. Tancredo is shifting blame from Republican’s to all us stupid people who just don’t understand. Just like an alcoholic on the defensive he is in serious denial. Maybe Tancredo is talking about Black people. I don’t know enough about the guy to know if he is a racist, I don’t know where Mr. Tancredo is coming from in his heart but his head is definitely not firing on all cylinders. This kind of stupidity is more dangerous to our country than someone who would fail a literacy/ civics test. Tancredo should opt himself out of voting, he fails the basic common sense test.

Michelle Obama was intervied by Robin on Good Morning America this am. Trust me, the President and his wife have their heads screwed on right: They know the game, the players and best of all, they know how to deal with it. Obama will continue to create situations wherein the Republicans will have live coverage for “Show and Tell.”  All of the “NO” nonsense is about to run out and after Blue Cross/Blue Shield in the state of Calif. went up 38%, a lot of these folks will know that we need some control over the insurance industry.

Sara Palin is the world’s biggest joke and as jokers go, she is milking it for all that it is worth.  First, she gets a bunch of “DumbAs” whose only focus is “taking our country back” and “get rid of that socialist.“Where were all of the TEA-nutts when Bush was rolling the country off of a cliff? Can you imagine paying $500 bucks to listen to Palin’s crap?  Many of the sponsors pulled out.

Palin had the nerve to accuse Pres. Obama of being “charismatic” and having to depend on a telePrompter. After Palin was caught with cheat notes in the palm of her hand, she is now called, TelePalmer.

Justjess…That’s the Wasilla Palm Pilot

Wasilla Palm Pilot

LMAO!!! That’s a good one. I’m so stealing that.

The Mississippi Republican Party says they have enough signatures to present to the Secretary of State to put the issue of voter ID on the 2011 ballot. Maybe they can get Tancredo to do endorsements for it since he likes the idea of disenfranchising people.

I thought “Telepalmer” was cute but, “Wasilla Palm Pilot” takes the cake. LOL

prentiss reeves, you have genius qualities. You need a patent on that one so that 50 years from today we won’t be asking, “WHO DAT?”

golden eagle’s blog about the Republicans submitting their signature list to have voter ID as a criterior for voting is some serious stuff.

This will mean the loss of many voters, especiall older people who do not drive or whose license have expired secondary to age, illness, ect. Cost for a State lic. is $25.00. It is my understanding that the requirement will be for a driver’s lic. or a State issued lic. only.

We need to get busy folks. This has the scent of rotten eggs.

It really is serious. The Republicans, despite their flag-waving and wearing the cloak of patriotism, have been about disenfranchising voters. Just go back to the 2008 elections when the Republicans tried to disenfranchise Michigan voters who lost their homes due to foreclosure and in Ohio when they tried to challenge the credentials of hundreds of thousands of newly-registered voters there. On top of what Tancredo said, the voter ID bill amounts to nothing less than disenfranchisement. I would not be surprised if it’s challenged in court and ruled unconstitutional, if it gets that far.

You know, on it’s face it sounds innocent enough. Verifying the identity of voters by asking for ID. The one thing missing from their call for this is the examples of egregious voter fraud being perpetrated because there is no law requiring ID. Where is the wrong that law is supposed to right or is this just Republicans posturing for their base?

Just political posturing. Voter fraud is extremely rare. There’s probably more instances of people being struck by lightning than there are actual voter fraud. I don’t have factual evidence to support that, so I could be exaggerating. Remember, it’s not fraud until the fraudulent voter actually votes. Even with the stuff ACORN was being accused of, very little—if any—fraud took place.

Jess, if I’m still around in 50 years…trust me everyone will be askin’ Who Dat…