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(70,494 posts)Implementing the deal to keep the hostages in Iran until after the '80 election. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"] [/FONT]
The Clarence THOMAS thing of finding a willing minority tool to put Dems over the barrel, having to attack a member of a Dem constitutent group. After THOMAS, they used it over and over -- Miguel ESTRADA, Colon POWELL, Condo RICE, Alberto GONZALEZ, Linda CHAVEZ. During the THOMAS hearings the Libs were squirming over attacking a Black nominee, and it has been years of not knowing how to do it. This was the period of us calling them [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Uncle Toms or houseboys or puppets or tools[/FONT], while the Rethugs thought they were making points by racking up their tally of having minorities in high offices. There is the spectacle of Orrin HATCH putting on his Shirley TEMPLE pout, "How can the Democrats oppose Meee-gwell (ESTRADA), a well qualified Hispanic. They claim to support minorities, yet they oppose them." The solution is simple: [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Stop us attacking the motives[/FONT] of these minorities sell-outs, these that are traitors to their home groups, stop calling them puppets or greedy for their own material gain. [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]Besides[/FONT], Orrin TEMPLE HATCH, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]to expect that a nominee be approved BECAUSE of race/ethnicity is just as RACIST as opposing them on that basis[/FONT]. The answer is simply to [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]take these Vichy people at their own word[/FONT] when they say they are genuine Wingnuts, forget about their race/ethnicity, [FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: yellow"]and FULL OUT attack them on their Wingnuttiness[/FONT], their regressive policy stances.