Originally Posted by detbuch (Post 1170639)

Did you? I took a bit more than three seconds. And Found that Pete's quote, by selective editing, implies the exact opposite of what Atwater was saying. Typical leftist, lying trick.

https://www.powerlineblog.com/archiv...really-say.php

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1170662)

Interesting that you would choose who to vote for because of something someone said 30 plus years ago
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1170663)

And you found someone’s opinion

I found three articles (one of which I posted) which gave the fuller transcripts of the interview and/or a link to a recording of the full interview. Every time "Liberals" quote that passage from the interview that you posted, they leave out the significant sentence that follows it. Why is that? Why do they consistently do that?

I also listened to the interview. Atwater's contention throughout the interview was that race had no longer become an important issue in Southern politics, and that what had happened was that what had evolved as the winning issues in the South were economics and national defense. That was the strategy he used for the Reagan campaign. What begins your edited quote "you start out in 1954 by saying nigger, nigger, nigger" was not a Republican campaign strategy. Atwater said it was how campaigning was done in the South in 1954, especially by Democrats. And from that very specific, concrete, approach, strategies got more "abstract," less specifically racial, until his Reagan campaign removed the racial element, coded or otherwise, and focused on economics and national defense.

He also predicted correctly that this strategy would make the Republican Party competitive in the South (before which Republicans were basically non-existent).

There are opposite opinions also, so citing a right wing opinion doesn’t make it true

Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1170665)

John if you decide that you are a racist in theory because I posted a quote from 38 years ago it’s pretty much a true indicator that Republicans have adopted identity politics as their mantra.
Read Trump’s tweets and follow them in a historical context. You’ll see the game he plays.
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/
Trump will lose
He’ll lose because people are just plain tired of him. Tired of his drama. Tired of his meanness. Tired of his whining & complaining, day after day.

He’ll lose because people are tired of having a bratty child in the White House.
He is not a good man.
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1170663)

And you found someone’s opinion
There are opposite opinions also, so citing a right wing opinion doesn’t make it true
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Originally Posted by Pete F. (Post 1170665)

John if you decide that you are a racist in theory because I posted a quote from 38 years ago it’s pretty much a true indicator that Republicans have adopted identity politics as their mantra.
Read Trump’s tweets and follow them in a historical context. You’ll see the game he plays.
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/
Trump will lose
He’ll lose because people are just plain tired of him. Tired of his drama. Tired of his meanness. Tired of his whining & complaining, day after day.

He’ll lose because people are tired of having a bratty child in the White House.
He is not a good man.size=1]Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device[/size]

Originally Posted by spence (Post 1170651)

Dogs are man's best friend by the way. Same goes for women.

Originally Posted by JohnR (Post 1170660)

What Pete implied was that The Republican Party is backhandedly subjugating Black people, ergo Racists. And if you support the Republican party you are actively and/or passively Racist. Because Atwater (in many, many ways a Jerk) said that since the N word is verboten, the Rs will just need to economically shackle Black people. Like Joe Biden said, "Those Republicans wanna Putchya Back in Chains".

This is great, by this logic, we need to raise the Debt Limit and keep borrowing and spending so that EVERYONE will be an economic slave. Parity At Last.

I will need to remember that when I am at the polls and picking between Ds and Rs (I do both BTW) and remember when I pick "R" that Pete is calling me a racist.

Originally Posted by Jim in CT (Post 1170681)

that’s exactly what he said, good you called
him out on it.
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