A national disgrace

It's official. Unrepentant segregationists like Trent Lott, and the overt racists in the GOP are now setting the "minority outreach" or "get out of reach of minorities" agenda for the apartheid party in U.S. politics. Here's what happened:

Sept. 28 (Bloomberg) -- The four top Republican presidential candidates came under fire from their rivals for skipping a debate last night that focused on minority issues.
The absence of former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain of Arizona and former Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee gave the second-tier candidates a rare opportunity to command the spotlight, and they wasted little time criticizing the no-shows.
``I'm embarrassed for our party and I'm embarrassed for those who did not come because there's long been a divide in this country, and it doesn't get better when we don't show up,'' said former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee.
Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas said it was a ``disgrace'' that the frontrunners failed to show up. ``I think it's bad for our country and it's bad for our party, and I don't think it's good for our future.''
The debate, carried on PBS, took place at Morgan State University, a historically black school in Baltimore.

I'm so mad right now I could spit nickels. Bush set a new low in snubbing the NAACP, yet his consistent arrogance, in dealing with so many kinds of people, made his insulting behavior stand out less clearly. In practice, most of us have known for years that the real interest of most Republicans in minority voters has been to keep their votes from being counted, or even cast. However, there were at least half-hearted attempts to make room for some Conservative Christians of Color in the Republican party. And, to their credit, at least Huckabee and Brownback showed some respect for an important component of their evangelical base. Yet, all of the Republican candidates with seriously well-financed, solid national campaigns blew off the debate at Morgan State.

What's going on here? Apparently the mental midgets who run the party feel there's a better percentage in going after 100% of the Klan/Aryan Nation/American Nazi vote, than in trying to improve on their recent 11% showing among African Americans. The American people has learned to ignore most of what politicians say and do. What these four scumbags didn't do was to step away from the most repellent attitudes that define bigotry in our country today. I hope and pray that a whole lot of people find this as much of an outrage as I do.