Debate over Reagan's visit to Neshoba and its racial/political implications: posts state "Reagan should not have gone to Neshoba," call it part of the GOP's "Southern Strategy" begun by Nixon and amplified by Reagan, and describe it as "a bad move for the health of the country."
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Perhaps it was ignorance. Tom is an expert on the era in which we are discussing. This would include in-depth knowledge of Jimmy Carter, so your comment comes across as highly insulting.
He could do much good, he thought, if only he could get to the governor’s mansion. “You won’t like my campaign,” Carter warned Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, “but you will like my administration.” This was a frank admission of a means-justifies-the-ends political methodology.
Ah, yes, racist crap as Georgia Governor like ”I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over”. He appointed large numbers of blacks to important state posts and ordered a portrait of MLK Jr. hung in the Georgia state capitol. Only the rednecks thought that was racist.
And if you are judging by what they did in office, Carter did not do anything impeachable, and by your admission, Iran/contra was impeachable. I did not bring up Reagan’s campaign back channeling with Iran to release the hostages after the election
Randy you are not winning the middle, let alone your own party cow towing to the liar in chief. I hope you keep your advisors on all the way through. FANTASTIC advice from them! Until you’re down double digits two weeks from the election and Cheeto/RNC pulls your funding and ghosts you. Dumbass.
"No, it is a big deal. Reagan should not have gone to Neshoba. He was running against a Southern governor who took the state in 1976 and trying to outflank him. (Carter was a progressive Southener, but knew how to avoid these racial beartraps.) But the idea that Neshoba defined Reagan is just silly."
Yeah, that was a bad move for the health of the country.
"No, it is a big deal. Reagan should not have gone to Neshoba. He was running against a Southern governor who took the state in 1976 and trying to outflank him. (Carter was a progressive Southener, but knew how to avoid these racial beartraps.) But the idea that Neshoba defined Reagan is just silly."
It was part of the GOP's Southern Strategy to attract white Southern voters. Nixon started this and Reagan put it on steroids.
"What kind of whistle was it when Jimmy Carter said "ethnic purity" in 1976"
Bad, but Carter has 50 years of unrelenting humanistic post presidency behavior to throw on the scale. All you have are these shallow shards of your riddled memory.
I want him to tell us what to say, and how to get the DNC to listen to us. Their ideas have fckd us, and they need to adapt - to win, or get the fk out of our way as a thriving democratic nation. For this we need a charismatic, articulate, intelligent, forceful leader. No more namby pamby.
No, it is a big deal. Reagan should not have gone to Neshoba. He was running against a Southern governor who took the state in 1976 and trying to outflank him. (Carter was a progressive Southener, but knew how to avoid these racial beartraps.) But the idea that Neshoba defined Reagan is just silly.
It has no context on their races to compare the better two bad options or voting records or statements / future pledges or introduced bills and a new GOP candidate would look good against an establishment democrat Length of career history and race competitiveness / expensive media market will…
Jackson was vilified for his hymietown remark, said in public; Reagan paid no price for his racist screed, captured on Nixon’s tapes. You hear bile roll off Reagan’s tongue, Nixon lapped it up. Reagan opened his 1980 campaign in the US lynching capital. I guess Dukakis 4 years later visited there.
