Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Kotz / Legislature / Politics Race, Bad Candidates & Muslim Obama: How Republicans Won Tennessee
Posted by Pete Kotz on Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:15 AM
On his blog Camp4U, conservative Stacey Campfield offers his take on why Republicans were able to command control of the Tennessee legislature. He believes the race card backfired, Democrats put up a roster of bad candidates, and some people still believe Obama is Muslim -- if not the Anti-Christ. A few excerpts:
If anything it was weak Democrat turnout/ Democrat crossovers against their own candidate (some probably due to race) rather then an extra strong "Racist Republican" turnout. People are sick of the race card. They don't see it anymore. The more they use it the less it works and Democrats have used it ad nauseum, to the point people are starting to get mad instead of intimidated whenever it is dropped. They want real issues and ideas not excuses. Some black people are even getting sick of hearing the excuse so keep it up! ... Obamas liberalism? Yes, in some part, but I got a lot of feedback on the religious issue as well. More then I would have thought. The Muslim factor as well as many people perception that he was the Antichrist was mentioned repeatedly. The blind worship and screaming adoration reminded many of early Hitler films. I also heard many people say how they did not think he was qualified to run based on his questionable place of birth... Democrat candidates? I must say most weren't that good. Most had some skeletons as far as terrible credit histories with bankruptcy, fraud, criminal background, disastrous personal lives that were already well known around town without Republican putting out anything on them. If they had been in office, they had a history of raising unpopular taxes and if they talked conservative most people just did not believe them. They were vague on what they wanted to do or how specifically they were going to do it. I guess part of that can be laid at the foot of Gray Sasser and the Democrat party for terrible candidate recruitment and lack of message. To their credit I thought the Democrats had better media presentation. It was more creative and slicker in many ways. We used similar attacks but with weaker results. They won the media award.
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Is it just me, or do his first two paragraphs seem a little contradictory. First he says he doesn't believe there was much "racist Republican" effect and that people are sick of the race card. Then he says, "The Muslim factor as well as many people perception that he was the Antichrist was mentioned repeatedly." If that's not racism—first off, assuming he was Muslim because of his name and skin color—then I don't what is.
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Jack
on November 11, 2008 at 11:31 AM
