G.O.P. SPLIT OVER WHETHER TO EMPHASIZE MISOGYNY OR RACISM by Andy Borowitz (New Yorker)

[trailmonkee]

(btw, tis Satire.... or is it? )

G.O.P. Split Over Whether to Emphasize Misogyny or Racism

NEW HAMPSHIRE (The Borowitz Report)—With less than two weeks to go until Election Day, there is a deep divide among Republican leaders over whether to emphasize misogyny or racism as the campaign’s closing theme.

In one camp is the Indiana Senate candidate Richard Mourdock, who says that his view that God is sometimes O.K. with rape is “gaining real traction with a key demographic: men who don’t like women very much.”

“I can’t tell you how many misogynists have come up to me at my rallies and said, ‘Thank you for saying what you said,’ ” he told reporters today. “I think they’re like, finally, someone’s taking a more nuanced position on rape.”

But in the other camp is the former New Hampshire governor John Sununu, who worries that the Republican Party’s emphasis on misogyny is threatening to drown out its “winning message of racism.”

“I understand the appeal of Mourdock’s anti-woman theme, but I worry that it’s going to overshadow our core value of racism, which is still our best shot at winning this thing,” he said. “In politics, you’ve got to dance with the one who brung you.”

Hoping to heal a possible rift with so little time left until Election Day, the R.N.C. chairman Reince Priebus said today that there is room for both views in today’s Republican Party: “Our ‘big tent’ message to voters should be this: come for the misogyny, stay for the racism.”

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[enough]

1. Yikes, beautifully put. (nt)

[KatyAnn]

2. OMG

My side is splitting.

[We People]

3. When is satire not satire? When it's pretty much true, like this one!

I think this is what is meant by Prophetic - that's because they've become almost a caricature of themselves. Only thing different from reality is the blogpost says they're divided between the two; no, in reality, they're pulling out all the stops and using both messages.

[Whovian]

4. Very Jonathon Swift. Funny stuff.

[central scrutinizer]

5. the modern GOP can multitask

they can easily do both

[dawg]

6. They should emphasize the misogyny.

With free travel between all parts of the world, we will eventually mix into one blended race. But they will be able to hate on women forever.

[marmar]

7. "But they will be able to hate on women forever."

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Maybe not.

[dawg]

8. Oh my!

[KatyAnn]

9. Is that Rudy Giuliani?

[marmar]

10. yep

[Jim Lane]

11. This absurd analysis completely ignores the Republican Party's homophobia.

I mean, misogyny and racism are all well and good, but let's not forget that some people who love each other are trying to get married. Danger! Danger!

The OP falsely implies that the Republican Party is ignoring this terrible threat -- or, perhaps I should say to make my point slightly more obvious, this terrible "threat".

[madamesilverspurs]

12. Yup.