Who would lead the Republicans against Obama?

I think a real sign of equality in the US would be to get an atheist or muslim into office, given the job the christian right has done at completely smearing both of them.

Originally posted by inimalist
true, but why do you think minority leaders in major political offices will make the problems for those minorities better?

Minorities in high offices won't necessarily do anything. What they are is proof that attitudes are changing towards acceptance of differences (which many some a few people in America think is a good sign).

Originally posted by FE Expert
If the Republicans are to rebuild their party, who could lead the party to fight Obama?

What, you mean like a street fight?

Originally posted by King Kandy
I think a real sign of equality in the US would be to get an atheist or muslim into office, given the job the christian right has done at completely smearing both of them.

No thanks.

I think we already saw the devastating effect it has on the country when you elect someone based on color or religion and not on skills and experience.

lol. I said a sign of equality, not a good president.

but it isn't a sign of equality. I'll admit that Sym is right, and the election of a Black man shows that there is more general acceptance of equality in society versus, say, 1952, but, black people are no more equal now than they were when Bush was president.

Originally posted by inimalist
but it isn't a sign of equality. I'll admit that Sym is right, and the election of a Black man shows that there is more general acceptance of equality in society versus, say, 1952, but, black people are no more equal now than they were when Bush was president.

As long as that person doesn't represent any real change and who's skin color or heritage can be used as a basis for novelty at best and attacks at worst with said president being too much of a weak willed pussy to do anything about it.

true, but a person of any race could do that. Gender too.

maybe even a gay 🙂

lol, no, I totally hear you. People saw the most physical embodiment of change and just assumed it was the change they wanted. It was sad, there were even more radical Democratic candidates who would have better represented those ideas, but they couldn't compete with the minority factor.

It's also why the Republicans cloned Don King, shaved him, and called him Michael Steele.

Alberto Gonzales 😉

I prefer the Mario Solis Marich name for him- Bandito Gonzales.

hahaha!

Obama is having a very hard time, so much pressure on him. I feel sad about him to be american presistent in this hard period.

Is anyone else laughing about Bachmann and Santorum wanting to throw their hats in for 2012?

Bachmann is the looniest person ever... at first I thought nothing could top the americorp thing, but even worse is her insistence that since CO2 is "natural", it could not cause global warming... maybe she'd like to drink some hemlock or something then tell us that natural things can't be dangerous.

Santorum is pretty awful as well. Though his anti-gay statements are well-known, somehow I find his support of nationwide intelligent design education to be even more disturbing.

Bachmann's son is a corpsmember.

And you don't find his dead foetus spooning or corruption distrubing or the whole sex definition thing?

I don't know the dead fetus thing, sex definition isn't really anything about the man himself, like I said there are many things he could be mocked over, but I hate ID pushers w/ a passion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_(sexual_neologism)

makes me kind of hope he wins actually...

nationwide intelligent design education

*shudder*

Wouldn't that make him easier to defeat? Like, show that he is willing to ignore... damn. This is America.

*slinks off to cry*