Democrats: An Illegitimate Party
Saturday, August 18, 2012
While Republicans strain themselves to stay focused on the issues that matter most to Americans, Democrats and their allies in the press remain committed to political distractions – most often delivered through outlandish and disingenuous political comments and their corresponding media analysis.

This week, after Vice President Joe Biden informed black voters of what Democrats try to convince them of every election season – that it is a Republican wet-dream to see black people “back in chains” – Mitt Romney responded by advising President Obama to “take [his] campaign of division and anger and hate back to Chicago.”
MSNBC commentator Touré actually took exception to Romney’s instruction, calling it the “niggerization” of the campaign season, a way of relaying to the public-at-large, “You are not one of us, you are like the scary black man who we’ve been trained to fear.”
How does this liberal “intellectual” reach such a conclusion?
“You notice he said anger twice,” Touré explained. “[Romney’s] really trying to use racial coding and access some really deep stereotypes about the angry black man. This is part of the playbook against Obama. The ‘otherization.’ He’s not like us.” The progressive sage continued, “This is typical Republican playbook…This is not [just] my view. This has been laid out by many, many scholars.”
When Touré refers to “scholars,” he really means, “my college professors.”
The Speech Police
While this sort of rhetoric serves to distract from honest policy discussions, it’s also demonstrative of what Democrats truly believe, and how they’ve learned to achieve political victories – mainly by evading debate, and getting people to subscribe to their asinine political theories regarding Republicans.
This is hardly the first time Americans have been warned of the shadowy purpose of otherwise everyday terms.
In 2008, liberals everywhere considered it a back-handed racist remark to refer to then-candidate Barack Obama as “articulate.” And liberals were aghast when Newt Gingrich called Obama the “best food stamp president in American history.” This included Jimmy Carter, who referred to Gingrich’s remarks as the “subtlety of racism.” In the spring of 2012, MoveOn.org launched a campaign aimed at “stamp[ing] out” the word “illegal” whenever it is to be used in the context of immigration. According to Democrats, the “I-word” is akin to a “slur” and a “hate crime” – and, of course, that “it’s racially charged.”
Also included in the list of terms that Democrats consider to be red flags of racist intent are “welfare,” “professor,” “war on drugs,” “urban,” and “Willie Horton.” There are more.
If there’s any truth to Touré’s claim – that “the GOP has been working with racial codes going back to Reagan” – then perhaps it’s due to the fact that Democrats, in their half-headed quest to control political dialogue, have always ruthlessly regulated what people have been allowed to say.
And if MSNBC liberals are so concerned with the advancement of the stereotype of “the angry black man,” perhaps it wasn’t the best move to offer Al Sharpton his own show on their network.
The Democratic Game
Conservatives are racist, cruel, extreme, and prone to violence. Democrats just know it. And one of these days, they’re somehow going to prove it.
Until then, we’ll have to tolerate all of their politically correct assertions – that “Mitt Romney is the whitest white man to run for president in recent memory,” and that is “the one quality that has subtly fueled his candidacy thus far and could well put him over the top in the fall;” that getting booed by the NAACP was, in fact, a “calculated move” aimed at energizing Romney’s “racist base;” that Romney is artfully “speaking to a segment of the population who does not like to see people other than a white man in a White House or any other elected position.”
Until Democrats discover indisputable evidence that Republicans are as evil as they claim, we’ll just have to deal with their hasty and reckless media verdicts during episodes that are similar to the Trayvon Martin shooting, the Duke Lacrosse case, and the arrest of Professor Henry Louis Gates.
After every inexplicable act of violence, we’ll have to tolerate the fact that Democrats just won’t be able to help themselves from falsely assuming the suspects and assailants are members of the Tea Party – an overwhelmingly peaceful movement since its outset.
And we’ll have to stomach the Left’s vicious bigotry, selective outrage, double standards, and inconsistent political analyses.
For it is the depraved and violent Occupy Movement – the Tea Party’s left-wing counterpart – that has been embraced by the most prominent of Democrats.
For the press seemed oddly disinterested this week after a young man shot a security guard at the headquarters of the Family Research Council – a conservative think-tank based in DC – even after the 28 year-old suspect was exposed as a “liberal activist…in the DC area,” who said during the shooting, “I don’t like your politics,” whose parents told the FBI that he “has strong opinions with respect to those he believes do not treat homosexuals in a fair manner,” and who showed up to the scene armed not only with a firearm, but also with “15 Chick-fil-A sandwiches.”
For the Obama Justice Department seemingly has no motivation to investigate or prosecute members of the New Black Panther Party, whose leaders have openly engaged in blatant acts of voter intimidation, called for the murder of “crackers” and their “babies,” placed a bounty on the head of George Zimmerman, and threatened the upcoming GOP convention in Florida. In what appeared to be her best Joe Biden impersonation, New Black Panthers Chief of Staff Michelle Williams recently stated, “The Republicans hate black people…And for all of you black people who are Republicans…I ask you this day, when did you lose your dignity and lay down for these damn crackers who mean this black community no good? They’ve shown this. Their history has shown this.”
Williams went on to say that if Republicans continue to oppress blacks, “you better believe my foot will be on [their] goddam motherfucking necks.”
Illegitimate
The American Left is a despicable and illegitimate political power broker. Its influence is derived from lies, myths, and the shallowest of political ethics. Its activist and intellectual core consists of Cross-hating atheists, abortionists, Black Panthers, radical professors, ignorant and inexperienced youth, frightened old people, neo-communists, Occupy anarchists, union thugs, anti-American pastors, race-hustlers, sexual radicals, and totalitarian champions of gay marriage.
Holding it all together is a community of media elites who enable them all by applying an everyday face to the utter radicalism of the entire Democratic complex.
Travis Rowley (TravisRowley.com) is chairman of the RI Young Republicans and author of The RI Republican: An Indictment of the Rhode Island Left.
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Comments:
Michael Trenn
7:25am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
I guess this column draws the line in the sand that we've needed for a long time. This stuff goes back to the 60's, when authority figures coddled the radicals that were spitting, sometimes literally, in their faces. Bad behavior became political expression, and those radicals became today's college faculties.
William Suffik
9:49am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
Well done. There is certainly a big difference between the political left and right. We must set the record straight. Who is really lying to the public as political habit? Who is truly violent and thuggish?
jon paycheck
12:32pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
the absolute shallowness and lack of civility in the national democratic party. there is no shame right on up to the presidency.
i look at the delegates to the convention from rhode island. many are decent honorable people. and i just have to wonder why and how they can associate themselves with the national agenda and methods.
these methods pale anything that richard nixon ever did.
Michael Gardiner
8:41pm on Saturday, August 18, 2012
Anyone reading this would think Republicans have no message or anything to say and no ideas
David Vogel
3:21am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Normally, I would say something about partisan politics and the rancor it has fostered in recent years. In this case, however, merely directing the reader's attention to the very words used by the author of this piece is all that is required to demonstrate the acrimony that so clearly permeates the ranks of partisans.
After stating flatly that people in the right-wing simply are not "cruel" or "extreme," and that they cannot be proven to be so, he goes on to fill the entire final section of the piece with pure vitriol and name-calling.
In order for the author's own words to be not in the category of "cruel" or "extreme," it must be assumed that the epithets he hurls in his final two paragraphs simply are what he considers to be "normal" ways of characterizing people with whom he disagrees.
If, then, we are safe in concluding that the author utilizes such terms regularly when referring to others, it becomes easy to see how he is able to deny -- with any semblance of a straight face -- that right-wingers are intolerant and hateful.
tom brady
7:37am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Wow, real classy writer you have.
Jared D
12:05pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
D. Vogel, I don't believe the writer believes those are epithets in the final paragraphs. I think he's being quite literal. It is true that ...
"Cross-hating atheists, abortionists, Black Panthers, radical professors, ignorant and inexperienced youth, frightened old people, neo-communists, Occupy anarchists, union thugs, anti-American pastors, race-hustlers, sexual radicals, and totalitarian champions of gay marriage"....
are all members of the Democrats' activist base. The writer only forgot "millions of welfare recipients" ...
Jared D
12:10pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
T. Brady and M. Gardiner, this guy takes the time to compile a long list of reprehensible comments made by liberals (in order to prove a point about the indecency of the Democratic base), and all you can do is reverse the charge. Seriously? What did this guy do that wasn't "classy"?? Tell everyone what Democrats said?
This wasn't about proposing Republican "ideas" and "message"...This article was clearly aimed at illustrating just how hard Democrats attempt to distract the voters by smearing Republicans. And the writer did a great job at it.
Michael Gardiner
1:00pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Jared D. The writer has an opportunity to speak to real issues. Politics is rough and both sides commit fouls. The people want to know what Republicans can do for them, not whether or not they feel persec
Michael Gardiner
1:01pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
... persecuted.
David Vogel
6:13pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
@Michael Gardiner,
You had it right in your first comment under this article, and Jared D demonstrates perfectly why they don't need to offer any.
Jared D
11:15am on Monday, August 20, 2012
So let me get this straight. The writer decides to point out how DEMOCRATS are trying to avoid discussion of issues that matter...which he offered a great amount of evidence to prove that this is true. And you guys decide that, because he decided to do point this out, that this demonstrates how the REPUBLICANS are the ones not offering ideas?? Did you not read his opening line...??
"While Republicans strain themselves to stay focused on the issues that matter most to Americans, Democrats and their allies in the press remain committed to political distractions"
You guys are so smart that you don't even have to read what you're commenting on.
Jared D
11:21am on Monday, August 20, 2012
M. Gardiner...Also, there is a lot of value in pointing out the recurring manner in which liberals try to distract from the issues. This article wasn't about Republicans being "persecuted"....It's about revealing the fact that Democrats are avoiding the real issues. And that people should wonder why that is. Easy to understand for most people. Just go back and read this article.
Stop telling us what Rowley SHOULD be writing about. Republicans are out there everyday offering solutions (Paul Ryan especially).
And stop making false equivalences -- "Politics is rough and both sides commit fouls." Bull! Democrats are far more guilty of politically correct evasion than GOPers are. Again, go back and read this article.
Michael Gardiner
12:46pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Jared you claim "there is a lot of value in pointing out the recurring manner in which liberals try to distract from the issues." I don't agree. Morevoer the alleged "illegitimacy" of the Democratic party is a weak angle. Republican need to be more concerned with their own legitimacy and bolstering th Rhode Island Republican Party's legitimacy. Voter turnout in the last two GOP Primaries has been abysmal. Despite heavy support in talk radio, the RI GOP isn't putting enough voters in the booth. Many seats in the General Assembly have no GOP candididate. The GOP has no statewide office holders and currently no federal office holders. Thank goodness the Modrate party only has two General Assembly candidates or the GOP might look really bad.
The RI GOP needs new voices that are far less belligerant and coomplaining and more impressive discussion of issues. There is little value in training your readers to literally "hate" the oppositon. We are talking about fellow Rhode islanders and fellow Americans.
THe RI GOP will get off of the floor when it's local commitees meet every Monday night for perhaps an hour, perform one community service per month, and cause some fun for the community at least once per year. A regular schedule and a little Americana are a good foundation. Belligerance isn't attractive.. Most people react to belligerance with the the generally unspoken question "what IS your problem?" On the other hand, an article about how we might improve medicare, our fuel supply line, our health insurance markets, or how to better administrate the government might in fact fact draw disdain and belligerance and exagerrated claims form the opostion, but then, that's THEIR problem.
Russ C
1:43pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Yawn... someone should just write an app to generate these, save time. Getting so I hardly read them.
Jared D
6:34pm on Monday, August 20, 2012
Again, astonishing. Rowley compiles a list of hostile and inappropriate attacks by Democrats, and you end up deciding that HE is the "belligerent" one.
And I'll just reiterate that pointing out the political behavior of a certain group of people is legitimate and important...to contrast behavior between two sets of parties. Okay, you don't agree, and wish that the writer would focus on other things. Fine. Maybe next week you'll get your wish.
Art West
3:22pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Good observations and analysis, Travis.
Liberal Democratic strategists use this BS because it works. I have otherwise intelligent liberal friends who mouth this stuff, and they believe it.
There are hard-core leftists who have for years developed these strategies (such as the familiar "racist" shtick and mocking tactics) and they have been quite successful at selling them.
Honest people have to stand up to the nonsense and call out these hustlers whenever they try to pull this stuff.
Art West
4:21pm on Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Travis has laid out some of the things they do. Here's suggested reading on why the liberal progressives do what they do:
http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/red-pill-blue-bill/2012/aug/19/whole-lotta-shakin-goin/
peter hewett
4:10pm on Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Well said Travis, but stop holding back.
Guido Fawkes
11:59pm on Thursday, August 23, 2012
Not all Democrats are evil...
http://www.valleybreeze.com/2012/08/21/pawtucket/arcaro-finds-ineligible-voters-along-district-59-campaign-trail