Thursday, November 13, 2008
Politics / Woods Vaughn Decries 'Blackbird Mailer'
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 9:20 AM
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That is so utterly vile. I'm e-mailing it to all my East and Left Coast friends.
if you twits pretended to be any more revolted you'd have to start making up new words. god forbid you actually read the content of the flyer. jim crow? are you kidding? anything pertaining to, containing, or rhyming with the words black, crow, dark, color, jim, etc, is going to merit cries of racism, when there is no meaningful retort. grow up.
This is over-the-top even for most of the rancid Republican politics that are routinely engaged by GOPers in the Northeast...I am thinking that Nathan Vaughn could be more described as a fiscally conservative "Blue Dog" Democrat who additionally supports many of the same issues (such as abortion) as do the backwoods Republicans attacking him in this manner.
But look were most of the money was coming from to help defeat Vaughn: from the Gregory family and legislative friends of Bristol, Tennessee --- only two Gregory pushed cnadidates failed to be re-elected this year:
1) freshman U.S. Rep. David Davis was not re-nominated as the Republican TN 1st Congressional House District candidate, and
2) former State Rep. Jerome Cochran was defeated in his effort to regain the Carter County seat lost to Rep. Kent Williams.
Personally, I believe that if Williams follows along with the GOP House Caucus movement to install Mumpower as the next Speaker of the House, Williams will be facing a similarly Gregory financed House candidate in 2010.
One question needs to be answered: Did the Republicans use this mailer against any other Democratic candidates. More to the point, did the Republicans put the heads of any WHITE Democrats on crows?
