http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/10/us/politics/10freshmen.html?_r=1&nl=us&emc=politicsemailema3
All,
Would someone out there please tell Touré and all the other corny, myopic black and white "educated fools" running around spouting smug, idiotic lies and perverse nonsense about either "postracialism" and/or the automatic "validity" and "authenticity" of "all black folks" that this man here:
is a tried and true UNCLE TOM? And while we're at it we should strongly remind all and sundry that an UNCLE TOM is a black man who would gladly sacrifice his parents and all his siblings and friends--let alone the rest of us-- in order to slavishly and cravenly ingratiate himself with, and do the lowly abject bidding of, ANY white folks he thinks will tell him that he's a "good boy" and reward him accordingly (usually with an unctuous pat on the head or with insipid promises that he can attend any otherwise segregated Jim Crow/ all white setting that he desires so long as he "stays away from the white women.)" The slimy fact that UNCLE TIM SCOTT (R-SC)--see photo above--is brazenly kowtowing to and kissing the "modern secessionist" ass of the white Texan Cowboy Governor and cardcarrying KLANSMAN (as in KU KLUX!) Rick "The Trick" Perry (see here:
is all the truly filthy evidence one needs to make a (cough, cough) JUDGMENT about WHO our enemies actually are and what it actually all "means". So please get a CLUE Touré --along with all of your acolytes and pseudointellectual colleagues-- who refuse to face the screamingly obvious fact that racism/white supremacy and all its LACKEYS are still very much an integral part of our collective reality in the United Hates no matter how many super ambitious individual kneegrows suddenly become "celebrities"...
Kofi
House Freshman Emerges as G.O.P. Power Broker
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
September 9, 2011
New York Times
CONWAY, S.C. — Voters here were showing Representative Tim Scott the love, and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas looked as if he might jump across the stage and give Mr. Scott, a Republican freshman, a kiss himself.
Mr. Scott, who represents a coastal swath of this early primary state, had invited Mr. Perry to speak in a town-hall-style meeting last weekend with his constituents, the third Republican presidential candidate to do so. After introducing Mr. Perry as “perhaps the next president of the United States,” the two bantered about Mr. Scott’s “mama,” taxes and guns to peals of laughter and applause. Mr. Perry beamed, bathing in the light of Mr. Scott’s local star.
That Mr. Scott is emerging as a power broker in the South Carolina Republican primary says much about the trajectory of his career and influence since being elected to Congress last year on the leading edge of the Tea Party wave. Along with three fellow Republican freshmen in the House from South Carolina — one of the most concentrated manifestations of the conservative populism that has reshaped the party — Mr. Scott has shown he can help advance his agenda in Congress and is now flexing his muscles in presidential politics as well.
The four South Carolina freshmen — Mr. Scott and Representatives Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy and Mick Mulvaney — have been among the most prominent faces of the anti-Washington movement. They were among the 66 Republican House members to vote against the deal to raise the debt ceiling, and they remain popular in South Carolina, a state where the Tea Party has been the wind beneath the wings of Senator Jim DeMint and the hot breath on the neck of Senator Lindsey Graham, whose occasional deviations from orthodoxy have left some conservatives grumbling about him.
In a state that could play a vital role in the selection of a presidential nominee, the blessing of the Freshmen Four would be enormously helpful to candidates looking for some Tea Party sheen, and demonstrate the unusual power that they enjoy within their state’s party.
“What our freshmen did is, they went to D.C., they took a stand even against their own leadership,” said Chad Connelly, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. “They say, ‘This is why we were elected, this is what we believe in,’ and that makes them popular.”
The four find their phones ringing and their e-mail inboxes filling with requests for support from the presidential candidates. “They’re obviously more refined in their efforts than to flat-out ask for an endorsement,” said Mr. Gowdy, who says he is unlikely to give one. “But they all regularly ask to sit down and meet with me, and I can’t imagine it is because I am such good company.”
Mr. Mulvaney has already signed on as an economic advisor to the Perry campaign, a small coup that the campaign spent Labor Day promoting. The invitation to advise Mr. Perry was extended, Mr. Mulvaney said, because of his work on the “cut, cap and balance” deficit-reduction bill that passed the House this summer but was defeated in the Senate. Mr. Duncan is still examining his options in terms of affiliating himself with a candidate, as is Mr. Scott.
“I will step out there,” Mr. Scott said. “I’m still looking, probably for the next 60 days.”
Mr. Scott brings something else to the table: he is one of only two black Republicans in Congress right now, which candidates also see as a boon. “We hear all the time, ‘How are you going to reach out to the African-American vote?’ ” Mr. Connelly said. “I always tell people two words: Tim Scott. He has proved that conservatives have principles that are attractive to black Americans.”
The four freshmen were present on Labor Day at a cheerful grilling of several presidential candidates on constitutional and fiscal issues led by Mr. DeMint, the forum’s host. That the major candidates are all competing for conservative support here underscores the importance of a state that could well winnow the field after the initial contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. While Mr. Perry and Mitt Romney are beginning to build their operations, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, has the deepest and most professional infrastructure in the state, where he is hoping that the open primary system will attract more moderate voters to his cause. He was Mr. Scott’s first town hall guest, back in May.
Mr. Huntsman has also picked up some of the earliest endorsements of elected officials in the state, including Attorney General Alan Wilson, the son of Representative Joe Wilson, and Henry McMaster, a former attorney general.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who is chairwoman of the Tea Party caucus in the House, has the strongest grass-roots effort in the state, several political advisers here said.
But if South Carolina is where the currents of 2010 are meeting the tides of 2012, it is not yet clear whether voters will apply the same values to choosing a president that they did in choosing members of the House.
“If you look last year at the electorate, there was a mood for something new,” Richard Quinn, the high-powered South Carolina strategist who helped Senator John McCain win the primary in 2008 and is now advising Mr. Huntsman, said in pointing to Nikki Haley’s victory in the governor’s race. “There is reason to believe that may continue.”
However, traditionally, “we pick mainstream conservatives in this state rather than far right-wingers,” Mr. Quinn added. “Whether that will hold true, we will see. I think Jon Huntsman will make it clear you need to focus on electability.”
While a block endorsement from the four freshmen would be powerful, it seems unlikely, largely because Mr. Gowdy said he did not want any candidate to feel unwelcome in his district. Mr. Scott insists all of his options are open. “I get a call or an e-mail from a candidate every week,” he said. “I am both a social and fiscal conservative, and I am looking for someone who has the panoramic view of what it takes to restore jobs and our nation.”
All,
Would someone out there please tell Touré and all the other corny, myopic black and white "educated fools" running around spouting smug, idiotic lies and perverse nonsense about either "postracialism" and/or the automatic "validity" and "authenticity" of "all black folks" that this man here:
is a tried and true UNCLE TOM? And while we're at it we should strongly remind all and sundry that an UNCLE TOM is a black man who would gladly sacrifice his parents and all his siblings and friends--let alone the rest of us-- in order to slavishly and cravenly ingratiate himself with, and do the lowly abject bidding of, ANY white folks he thinks will tell him that he's a "good boy" and reward him accordingly (usually with an unctuous pat on the head or with insipid promises that he can attend any otherwise segregated Jim Crow/ all white setting that he desires so long as he "stays away from the white women.)" The slimy fact that UNCLE TIM SCOTT (R-SC)--see photo above--is brazenly kowtowing to and kissing the "modern secessionist" ass of the white Texan Cowboy Governor and cardcarrying KLANSMAN (as in KU KLUX!) Rick "The Trick" Perry (see here:
is all the truly filthy evidence one needs to make a (cough, cough) JUDGMENT about WHO our enemies actually are and what it actually all "means". So please get a CLUE Touré --along with all of your acolytes and pseudointellectual colleagues-- who refuse to face the screamingly obvious fact that racism/white supremacy and all its LACKEYS are still very much an integral part of our collective reality in the United Hates no matter how many super ambitious individual kneegrows suddenly become "celebrities"...
Kofi
House Freshman Emerges as G.O.P. Power Broker
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
September 9, 2011
New York Times
CONWAY, S.C. — Voters here were showing Representative Tim Scott the love, and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas looked as if he might jump across the stage and give Mr. Scott, a Republican freshman, a kiss himself.
Mr. Scott, who represents a coastal swath of this early primary state, had invited Mr. Perry to speak in a town-hall-style meeting last weekend with his constituents, the third Republican presidential candidate to do so. After introducing Mr. Perry as “perhaps the next president of the United States,” the two bantered about Mr. Scott’s “mama,” taxes and guns to peals of laughter and applause. Mr. Perry beamed, bathing in the light of Mr. Scott’s local star.
That Mr. Scott is emerging as a power broker in the South Carolina Republican primary says much about the trajectory of his career and influence since being elected to Congress last year on the leading edge of the Tea Party wave. Along with three fellow Republican freshmen in the House from South Carolina — one of the most concentrated manifestations of the conservative populism that has reshaped the party — Mr. Scott has shown he can help advance his agenda in Congress and is now flexing his muscles in presidential politics as well.
The four South Carolina freshmen — Mr. Scott and Representatives Jeff Duncan, Trey Gowdy and Mick Mulvaney — have been among the most prominent faces of the anti-Washington movement. They were among the 66 Republican House members to vote against the deal to raise the debt ceiling, and they remain popular in South Carolina, a state where the Tea Party has been the wind beneath the wings of Senator Jim DeMint and the hot breath on the neck of Senator Lindsey Graham, whose occasional deviations from orthodoxy have left some conservatives grumbling about him.
In a state that could play a vital role in the selection of a presidential nominee, the blessing of the Freshmen Four would be enormously helpful to candidates looking for some Tea Party sheen, and demonstrate the unusual power that they enjoy within their state’s party.
“What our freshmen did is, they went to D.C., they took a stand even against their own leadership,” said Chad Connelly, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. “They say, ‘This is why we were elected, this is what we believe in,’ and that makes them popular.”
The four find their phones ringing and their e-mail inboxes filling with requests for support from the presidential candidates. “They’re obviously more refined in their efforts than to flat-out ask for an endorsement,” said Mr. Gowdy, who says he is unlikely to give one. “But they all regularly ask to sit down and meet with me, and I can’t imagine it is because I am such good company.”
Mr. Mulvaney has already signed on as an economic advisor to the Perry campaign, a small coup that the campaign spent Labor Day promoting. The invitation to advise Mr. Perry was extended, Mr. Mulvaney said, because of his work on the “cut, cap and balance” deficit-reduction bill that passed the House this summer but was defeated in the Senate. Mr. Duncan is still examining his options in terms of affiliating himself with a candidate, as is Mr. Scott.
“I will step out there,” Mr. Scott said. “I’m still looking, probably for the next 60 days.”
Mr. Scott brings something else to the table: he is one of only two black Republicans in Congress right now, which candidates also see as a boon. “We hear all the time, ‘How are you going to reach out to the African-American vote?’ ” Mr. Connelly said. “I always tell people two words: Tim Scott. He has proved that conservatives have principles that are attractive to black Americans.”
The four freshmen were present on Labor Day at a cheerful grilling of several presidential candidates on constitutional and fiscal issues led by Mr. DeMint, the forum’s host. That the major candidates are all competing for conservative support here underscores the importance of a state that could well winnow the field after the initial contests in Iowa and New Hampshire. While Mr. Perry and Mitt Romney are beginning to build their operations, Jon M. Huntsman Jr., the former governor of Utah, has the deepest and most professional infrastructure in the state, where he is hoping that the open primary system will attract more moderate voters to his cause. He was Mr. Scott’s first town hall guest, back in May.
Mr. Huntsman has also picked up some of the earliest endorsements of elected officials in the state, including Attorney General Alan Wilson, the son of Representative Joe Wilson, and Henry McMaster, a former attorney general.
Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, who is chairwoman of the Tea Party caucus in the House, has the strongest grass-roots effort in the state, several political advisers here said.
But if South Carolina is where the currents of 2010 are meeting the tides of 2012, it is not yet clear whether voters will apply the same values to choosing a president that they did in choosing members of the House.
“If you look last year at the electorate, there was a mood for something new,” Richard Quinn, the high-powered South Carolina strategist who helped Senator John McCain win the primary in 2008 and is now advising Mr. Huntsman, said in pointing to Nikki Haley’s victory in the governor’s race. “There is reason to believe that may continue.”
However, traditionally, “we pick mainstream conservatives in this state rather than far right-wingers,” Mr. Quinn added. “Whether that will hold true, we will see. I think Jon Huntsman will make it clear you need to focus on electability.”
While a block endorsement from the four freshmen would be powerful, it seems unlikely, largely because Mr. Gowdy said he did not want any candidate to feel unwelcome in his district. Mr. Scott insists all of his options are open. “I get a call or an e-mail from a candidate every week,” he said. “I am both a social and fiscal conservative, and I am looking for someone who has the panoramic view of what it takes to restore jobs and our nation.”
