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Cliff Green says:

I love South Carolina. It keeps Georgia from being on the bottom on the political heap. However, if some of our progressive legislators get their way, we will soon be able to tote our guns to church, school and into all our airports. Not even Gamecocks can match that.

Gita says:

Oh stop being such a ‘fraidy cat.
Arizona already allows guns everywhere and nothing has changed. You are showing your liberal bias.

James says:

Wow! I live in Texas, and even our Republicans aren’t that stupid. At least they keep that kind of talk private — you know, in their country clubs, in the limos provided by the lobbyists, and of course on their ranches.

The problem, of course, is race — as it has been since the first slaves were brought to the new world. Buaer’s words were just thinly disguised as attaccks on blacks and Hispanics. LBJ knew he was delivering a “solid south” to the Republicans when he passed the Civil Rights and Voting Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, and boy was he right. The oh-so-Christian right has found sanitized ways to talk about race while maintaining plausible deniability — like Bauer’s reference to “them” breeding if you feed them. What color person do you think he envisions breeding upon feeding? I’ll bet they have a little darker tan than even the ladies at his country club…

When are fair-minded and moral people going to speak up and stop this creeping Klan-like mentality from controlling virtually all deep South political offices? When are the white preachers who know what their Bibles say about “Gentile and Jew alike” and know it means (in the language of the early church’s world)that God is the God of all people, going to tell their smug Sunday morning constituents that racism, indifference to the condition of the less fortunate and greed are the very things the New Testament (and sometimes the Old) tell believers to turn away from? That’s where you can reach these people who have a majority at the ballot box: their churches and among their peers. Rush and worse are their leaders now. Maybe if we turn the clergy first, we can give them so new leaders to look up to. Let’s start with the preachers.

WENDELL BROCK says:

Well done.

Brenden says:

The Democrat answer to South Carolina’s problems?

“Robert Ford: Video Poker to Save Our State”

http://www.robertfordforgovernor.com/

Charles Seabrook says:

Dear Grace Liem:
From all of us South Carolinians: Say hello to Jesse Helms and John Edwards and Jim Baker and Tammy Faye for us.

Ross from Pawleys says:

Not sure Brenden and CSmith that this has much to do with someone’s political bent. It is merely a matter of good taste, good manners, and good sense. As I said to you before, Brenden, just relax and enjoy a Sam Adams. Enjoy yourself. I’ll just leave it at that.

michael j. solender says:

How could your leave Lauch Faircloth off your list? A pig farmer with the worst attendance record in the history of the Senate, he paved the way for Edwards. Thank god we still have ABC here in NC so our monumental political screw ups (can you say $12k dinner from a major liquor distributor – http://www.charlotteobserver.com/408/story/1181612.html) can be carried out at the local municipal level. Let’s not leave all the fun for the gang at the State House and in Washington!

C Smith says:

Ross from Pawleys check with “James” about politics and race.

austin says:

Wait a minute. George Will was quoted recently saying “Congress continues to extend eligibility for unemployment benefits, apparently oblivious to the truth that when you subsidize something you get more of it.” ( http://www.newsweek.com/id/231124 )
…and got only a modicum of chiding. One salvageable attribute of mean spirited Sandlappers is… an odd sort of unconscious honesty. George Will uses platitudes disguised as soft science to jeer at those he perceives as products of “inferior breeding or schooling”. Relative to Will and his incessant pedantry, it’s rather refreshing to see such unwashed bigotry as Bauer’s .

Brenden says:

Must all conservative political speech be reducible to your false accusations of racism? Were there no lessons learned from advancing politicized fictions from the whole fake global warmingism kerfuffle? It’s downright Pavlovian with you folks, “Republican says….” and then you all start to drool until someone finally scribbles, “Racist!.” Then the little bell rings and you get a reward.

What is the reward, by the way? One of Ross’ beloved Sam Adams? A bong hit? Tofurkey sandwich?

Ross from Pawleys says:

Actually, Brenden, I prefer Coors Light and fill Republican coffers each time that I consume one . . which is rather often. Cheers and Prost. :)

BubbaPicasso says:

Wake up, Brenden. You’ve slipped into a dreamscape … in a classroom, wearing no pants, and we can see your junk.

I have no doubt you read your Bible the same way you read this blog posting. You saw what you wanted to see and ignored everything else. This isn’t a commentary about the candidates for governor of South Carolina. It isn’t about the beautiful state. The post addresses one populist’s bigoted remarks — bigoted in the sense that he’s preaching to the haves about the sins of the have-nots, a tactic not uncommon in the South.

Not all Republicans are Bible-thumping racists. Not all Democrats are pot-smoking tree-huggers. This isn’t about party. It’s about a doofus. Okay, make that several doofusses. Okay, so she didn’t list ALL the members of the Restless Penis clan in her very amusing essay. But, hey, there’s plenty of room for the John Edwards sex tapes next month.

Doofishness (doofushishness?), like many politicians, knows no boundaries. So put your pants on.