Dozens of "black people" have the unmitigated temerity® to vote
 

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-...-at-the-polls/


The GOP now have their collective head so far up their ass they need to open their mouth to see where they are going. Seriously, you cannot make this shit up:

Jeebus. If you can't stand the drama keep your mouth out of the kitchen. :headshake

He waited way too long to drink a glass of shut the fuck up.

It's like they've decided to abandon the honest to popular/ crazy to sane filters entirely.

Ha!

Damn commie heathen liberals, with their political correctness. It's getting to the stage a man can't even burn a cross on his own neighboiurs lawn!

pfft. seriously. And don't even THINK about lynching.

And cause I, and the lily white folks I spend my time with, doooon't know any negroes in these towns, there caaaan't be any negroes in these towns. Just ain't poooossible.

I'm not in Maine so I don't know what It's like on the ground there. it would appear that there are many black people and they voted. the thing is it isn't " political correctness" at the root of this guy's surprise and butthurt. black people, as much as I can speak for black people, don't want to know this guy. who the hell would want a project like him? only other people like him already.

you're a conservative, a republican...go do this for yourself, by yourself. meet some black people. improve yourself.

I grew up in Lewiston, Maine, and there were virtually no blacks. Seriously. In my high school of 2,000, there was one black kid, and he wasn't in my grade, so if I look through my yearbook, there is no sign of him. I didn't even know his name.

But then there was an interesting influx of immigrants from Somalia after the troubles there, and now my home town has a mosque or two and a healthy sized population of blacks. I don't know about rural Maine towns, but when I was a kid, there were no blacks there either. I wouldn't be surprised if that's changed though. People move around.

If this guy has been under a rock for the last 20 years, I can understand his confusion. But he obviously doesn't get out much.

Also in Maine when I was a kid, gays would be beaten up if they were open about it. But now in Maine they can marry. I'm pleased with how Maine is changing.

I don't really have a problem with a few black people voting. I'd even consider a chinaman or two and maybe even an indian (dot not feather.)

But I will not, WILL NOT, stand for block people voting. They're ignorant and they live up to every stereotype that's been aimed at them. I'm tired of it. We're losing America. LOSING, I tell you.


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glatt, would you be a deer and take the extra E out of dozeens? Thanks

That's what the Indians said about Whites, and look where it got them.

Feather not dot?

Well, we're no longer Whitees for starters...

INfi you may be binder free since 83, but Shawnee's been Bottu free since '63

Yes.

And isn't it ironic that now the feathers not dot are taking in scads of $
in whitee-only casinos, and using it to provide free health care for their flocks.

:rotflol::notworthy

I wonder if any literary phrase gets unknowingly used more often than "unmitigated temerity."

The OJ trial was during my junior year in high school, and the prosecution used the phrase in their closing arguments. Since the class was reading "To Kill A Mockingbird" at the time, the teacher made us write an essay on whether we thought the usage was deliberate, and why the reference was appropriate or mismatched. That teacher was totally awesome.

Hence, the ®. I was hoping someone would get the reference which I feel in this case was warranted.

Please tell me you were in college during the OJ trials.

:lol: Sorry, it was high school. Also, my parents started me in school a year early, so really I should have been a sophomore. I'm just a baby.

:facepalm:

I Googled the phrase to see how else it has been used, and found this blog from 2008.

Shakesville
Today in Unmitigated Temerity
Posted by Melissa McEwan
Wednesday, July 16, 2008

Some of the comments were...

I guess no one knew there were black people in Main.

Thanks Lamp. I love the idea of "Today in unmitigated temerity" full to the brim with win.

Unmitigated gall. Gall.

or

Atticus WHO?

I don't even.

"To Kill a Mocking Bird," i m. Book by Harper Lee and movie starring Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch. Atticus Finch is a lawyer in a small southern town and ends up defending a black man who is actually innocent of any wrong doing. But try to tell that to the town's dog fearing white folk who are longing for a lynching but willing to make do instead with a mockery of a trial just so long as the verdict comes in "guilty."

"To Kill a Mockingbird" is a classic and a great read as well.

Yeah, i know.

Somewhere in these vast pages I've lamented the loss of gregory peck. When he died i called my mom and wailed 'atticus died.'

I was being sarcastical, which i do to hide how dumb i am. ;)

A damn disappointment, really. :lol:

Well, in the town's defense the dog did have rabies. ;)

He had rabies in his chifforobe!

The fellow in the OP is the head of the GOP party in the state of Maine. How clueless can this man be? True, he has apologized, and it seems a real apology, not just I'm sorry if you were hurt --non-apology. Good.

But that he was so removed from reality that he was shocked, shocked I say, by dozens and dozens of black people voting that once out of office as GOP Chairman for Maine that he intended to use his own money to send follow up postcards to the surprise voters and see if and where they were delivered is a public confession of ignorance so vast that it seems irresponsible to have him in a position of influence or authority. Really. You're gonna send post cards to dozens and dozens of voters to track them down? How are you going to know which of the names on the lists of those who voted belong to black people Nancy Drew? Hm? Or are you just going to send postcards to everyone and include a census style questionnaire on the back? Logistically, I don't see how his plan cold work. Politically, I think it's a completely stupid thing to have said.

Maybe he could just send cards to people with first names like Jayden, Xavier, Zion, Neveah, Makayla, Imani, Isis and other popular African American names as determined by the states of Colorado, Arkansas, and Texas which keep tabs on such things. No doubt Maine should start keeping lists of popular names by ethnicity as well in order to keep an eye on its black voters. :rolleyes:

Profile much?

So, do you have a cite for your assertion that there are state managed lists of first names by ethnicity? That seems to be what you're implying. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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What the fool in the OP was suggesting was voter fraud. If he believes that, then he should make a real case for it. I've read his apology, and I think it was sincere. I think he spoke rashly, having a shock to his system by the news of Romney's loss. He was experiencing severe withdrawal symptoms when the Republican Kool-Aid turned out to be just water.

Seems that this is a paraphrase of the statement made at the website you will find on your monitor when you click the link in the post... maybe take it up with them? There is a 'contact us' link, here: http://www.babycenter.com/help-contactus

A black kid named Zion?

Double whammy.

C'mon, where's your Rasta Roots daughter? Haile Selassie, the Lion of Zion

I wasnt implying anything. According to the link I provided in my post, not only do those 3 states keep tabs on popular names by ethnicity, New York City does as well. I have no idea why they do this. In the case of Colorado, I consider this to be a waste of tax payer dollars - like why should anyone care?

Lighten up, already.

Considering this guy is a Republican and was rooting for Romney, I wonder how much more a shock to his system it would be when he finds out that not all black people vote Democrat.

It'd be hilarious if he goes on his Fact Finding/Voter Fraud-Exposing mission and found out that a sizable portion of these 'mystery black people' actually voted for Romney. I'll betcha he wouldn't think it's as big a problem as he's trying to make it.

If these black people show up by "the hundreds" to vote, don't the election people check to see if they are on the rolls before allowing them to vote? :rolleyes:

It was only dozens. Had it been hundreds I'm sure they would have activated the National Guard.:rolleyes::eek:

Gregory Peck was always one of my fav actors as well.

"Mockkingbird" is being shown on AMC tonight. I'd forgotten that the movie was in black and white. And the housekeeper for the Finch family was a black woman named "Calpurnia."

Like the poor, profiling is always with us. ;)

I was surprised to see a bunch of women voting. Like they would know anything about politics. They should have stayed home and cooked

Romney/Ryan feels your shocked surprise.

I know. That whole suffragette thing was a slippery slope.

I vote for more slippery, less suffering.

Women now hold 90 of the 535 seats in the 112th US Congress and 17 of the 100 seats in the Senate. If I remember correctly, 23% of these women are members of minority groups, and a majority of those voted into the Senate are Democrats.

This is just so wrong. These women should be spending their time looking for back alley abortionists or trying to find a source for the Pill on the black market.

I blame it all on Obama who gave away all that "free stuff" to voters. In the case of women voters, I'm sure many voted Democrat because they were promised the right to make decisions over their own reproductive health.

That aside, Republicans should demand a recount because, as we all know, women lack the spatial ability to operate voting machines.

In other words...foreplay.:p:

:lol: He gets it!! :lol:

Of course I do, I'm a Democrat.

Judging by the comments of Messrs. Aiken, Mourdock, et al., someone needs to start a Ladyparts 101 class for at least some Republicans.

Don't let 'em fool ya, those clowns are very familiar with lady parts... very, very familiar.

Yeah, but I bet they're lousey in bed. :p:

Yeppers. They've got binders full of 'em...

My brother was at work a few days after the election and got a call that a bank was sending him a FAX. So he goes into the town clerk's office and stands by the FAX machine for like 15 minutes. Finally he looks at the little window which says "load paper and push start". OK, take the paper out, put it back in, push start, and the thing prints about 30 pages. Half of them were absentee ballots sent by the county election board after verification. Whoops.

Oh gawd they totally are!

What?