Senator Scott is beginning to win some grudging respect from me. I hope he continues in this vein and stops rubber-stamping The Current Occupant’s nominees and policies.
What do you want to bet that Trump re-nominates Farr in the next Congress when McConnell won’t need Scott’s vote anymore?
“regardless of the obvious issues the Democratic Party has on race”
This is a weak attempt to try to flip the truth, which is that the Republican party has been the party of racism since Goldwater.
"I know conservative solutions can transform lives, but if folks don’t trust us, implementing those solutions becomes impossible.”
Folks don’t trust the GOP because they know that conservative solutions can transform lives: freedom into wage slavery, rights into bargaining chips that must be offered up as an ante, truth into propaganda, law into cronyism and kleptocracy.
Please note that a famously moderate rethug, Susan Collins, voted for Farr.
It’s a little late to get ahead of this mess, senator.
Given how much out and out racism he has winked at, Scott will need to do a lot more to earn my respect.
The reality is that the Republicans have gone from wink and nod racism to dog whistle racism, now they are just out and out racist. That Scott has been willing to be their cover “look, we have a black man supporting us too” just like the one black man they try to get to sit behind Trump in rallies holding a “blacks for trump” says a lot about what a black man has to do to advance in the GOP. Edward Brooke (R-MA) he is not.
South Carolina is changing, and my guess is that Scott is getting tired of being the apologist for racism, and with more high tech jobs (BMW, Boeing) bringing in more educated voters feels he has some room to break free from his old roll of cheerleader of the Neo-confederate party.
Lol, so this is how a republican calls their own party out on its rampant racism. Focus on “the obvious issues the Democratic Party has on race” before asking colleagues to stop nominating obviously racist f*ckwits.
What this means, regardless of the obvious issues the Democratic Party has on race, is that the Republican Party must strive to do better.
Perhaps I’m a bit thick, but what are the obvious issues Dems have on race?
“I know conservative solutions can transform lives…”
Yeah, mostly by transforming them into deaths.
I believe it’s due to the “he who smelt it, dealt it” principle.
Well, gee golly, they nominated a black man for president, and he won. Totally upset the biblical order where the white man was on top. After all Jesus was a white man, you can see that in all of the pictures of him. There is after all, a natural order to things, and it can’t be trifled with.
Better late than never.
Dems are always alleging that the GOP is racist, that GOP-nominated officials are racist. My interpretation of Scott is that he thinks Dems play the race card too often – not because GOP folks are racist and need to be called out, but in a cynical attempt to smear political opponents.
Scott is already post-truth. He implicitly accepts the only relevant facts are that the Dems are the political enemies of the GOP. The actual, ongoing racism of the GOP doesn’t even enter into his thinking.
But I’m sure she had some serious concerns.
Well, it really can’t, can it?
Stop being so racist, because it’s making it too easy to take the “unfairly” out of the “calling us racists”.
Right? Dems need to stop calling us racists! Also, we need to stop being racists.
I know conservative solutions can transform lives, but if folks don’t trust us, implementing those solutions becomes impossible.
“You won’t believe how your life will be transformed when we take away your healthcare!”