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Female gov appoints South's 1st black senator since reconstruction.

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 1:45 PM

America loves a winner!

COLUMBIA, S.C. — The man who will become the South’s first black Republican senator since Reconstruction said Monday his ascension in politics showed the evolution of his state and the nation.

Congressman Tim Scott was picked by Governor Nikki Haley, a fellow Republican, to take over the seat being vacated by Jim DeMint. Haley, a daughter of Indian immigrants who became South Carolina’s first female and minority governor in 2010, acknowledged making history with her appointment, but she stressed that she picked Scott for his conservative values.

‘‘It is very important to me as a minority female, that Congressman Scott earned this seat, he earned this seat for the person he is, for the results he’s shown,’’ she said.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 3:36 PM

HERO

He's not black, he's Republican.

Only Democrats can be black.

H

Hero...must be right on all of this. ALL of the rest of us are wrong. Chrisisall, 2012

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 4:26 PM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Must eat the Libs up, that Republican Nikki Haley, daughter of Sikh immigrants from India, appoints a black man, and a TEA party conservative, in Tim Scott. Scott will be the only black US Senator when he takes office, and is the first black Senator from the South since reconstruction.

So many 'tokens' in the GOP, it's getting pretty darn crowded, huh?

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" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012 5:08 PM

M52NICKERSON

DALEK!

This is why the right has a hard time winning. They don't know their opponent.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:54 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

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Must eat the Libs up,

Haha you idiots.

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 6:57 AM

ANTHONYT

Freedom is Important because People are Important

Hello,

One can almost imagine the lament...

"Wait, they're not bothered by this? You mean we did it... for nothing?"

--Anthony

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“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.” -T. S. Szasz

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:07 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Oh, Anthony, but they ARE bothered. Furious, even.

Adolf Reed, a writer for the Nation and the Progressive, has column in the New York Times today in which he reflects on the elevation of Republican Tim Scott to the Senate. He is not enamored, to say the least:

But this “first black” rhetoric tends to interpret African-American political successes — including that of President Obama — as part of a morality play that dramatizes “how far we have come.” It obscures the fact that modern black Republicans have been more tokens than signs of progress. (Emphasis added.)

The cheerleading over racial symbolism plays to the Republicans’ desperate need to woo (or at least appear to woo) minority voters, who favored Mr. Obama over Mitt Romney by huge margins. Mrs. Haley — a daughter of Sikh immigrants from Punjab, India — is the first female and first nonwhite governor of South Carolina, the home to white supremacists like John C. Calhoun, Preston S. Brooks, Ben Tillman and Strom Thurmond.

Mr. Scott’s background is also striking: raised by a poor single mother, he defeated, with Tea Party backing, two white men in a 2010 Republican primary: a son of Thurmond and a son of former Gov. Carroll A. Campbell Jr. But his politics, like those of the archconservative Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas, are utterly at odds with the preferences of most black Americans. Mr. Scott has been staunchly anti-tax, anti-union and anti-abortion.

Even if the Republicans managed to distance themselves from the thinly veiled racism of the Tea Party adherents who have moved the party rightward, they wouldn’t do much better among black voters than they do now. I suspect that appointments like Mr. Scott’s are directed less at blacks — whom they know they aren’t going to win in any significant numbers — than at whites who are inclined to vote Republican but don’t want to have to think of themselves, or be thought of by others, as racist.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/nyt-op-ed-black-republicans-like-tim-sco
tt-are-tokens/article/2516402#.UNNEF-Q0WSo

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:08 AM

STORYMARK

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Must eat the Libs up,

Haha you idiots.

It's not personal. It's just war.

It's truely amazing, the bullshit that idiot convinces himself of.

Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." -- Rick "Frothy" Santorum

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:14 AM

KPO

Sometimes you own the libs. Sometimes, the libs own you.

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Oh, Anthony, but they ARE bothered. Furious, even.

Do you think this Adolph Reed speaks for all liberals? Or most?

It's not personal. It's just war.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 7:18 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Don't have to convince myself of anything, Storybook. I just listen to what the Lefties have to say.

Might wanna try that yourself sometime.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:06 AM

STORYMARK

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Oh, Anthony, but they ARE bothered. Furious, even.

Do you think this Adolph Reed speaks for all liberals? Or most?

It's not personal. It's just war.

Why even ask. That's one of his staples - nothing a Republican/Bagger ever says can be attributed to the entire party - but ANYTHING a Dem says is what every single one believes to their core. Standard rappy double-think.

Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

"We will never have the elite, smart people on our side." -- Rick "Frothy" Santorum

"Goram it kid, let's frak this thing and go home! Engage!"

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 8:18 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

Storybook - this wasn't some random quote, asked of someone who was caught off guard, but an op-ed piece, submitted by the individual himself, after having time to carefully choose and then put down his own words.

Double think? Hardly. Not even remotely. Equivocation fail, by you, once again.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:44 AM

M52NICKERSON

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Originally posted by AURaptor:
Storybook - this wasn't some random quote, asked of someone who was caught off guard, but an op-ed piece, submitted by the individual himself, after having time to carefully choose and then put down his own words.

...and that somehow means he speaks for the entire left?

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 10:58 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!

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Originally posted by m52nickerson:

...and that somehow means he speaks for the entire left?

Pretty much, yeah. I mean, if the Left can paint ALL Republicans with a phony ' war on women' position, then this is far more damning.

"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil." - Socrates

" I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend. "

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Thursday, December 20, 2012 11:19 AM

JONGSSTRAW

Scott was part of the 2010 Republican House sweep that also put Allen West in Congress. West was outspoken, and tried to be a leader, while Scott was the invisible man. West is out and Scott stayed in. Now Scott will be a Senator, and I hope he does more to add to the Conservative cause than just raise his hand to vote. At the swearing-in ceremony, I wonder if VP Biden will remark, as he did with Obama, how clean and articulate Scott is for a Black man.

"When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the Republic."

Benjamin Franklin

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