Because White People RULE!
If every action does indeed have an equal and opposite reaction, then you need to put me and Phyllis Schlafly across the room from each other and then get the hell outta the way.
Today, Schlafly said that Republicans should stop right now trying to reach out to Hispanics. Wanna know why?
“And the people the Republicans should reach out to are the white votes — the white voters who didn’t vote in the last election, and there are millions of them,” she advised.
Yeah, Phyllis, but they’re gay.
Thanks to Brian for the heads up.
Reach out to white voters? The GOP has been giving them a reach-around for decades now.
1Oh my loved the zinger
2That human is certifiably crazy!! I’m not even sure she is human. The idiots will probably follow her advice………….hopefully.
3“Yeah, Phyllis, but they’re gay”… and/or women. If it were up to Phyllis and republicans, women wouldn’t be able to vote. She’s an embarrassment to all hooter toters.
4My children are young enough (pre-middle age) to not know this woman’s name. Their mother wants to vomit when she hears it, or sees it. Knee jerk. Why hasn’t the house fallen on her yet?
5Just what is meant by ‘reaching out’?
In order to reach out to women and minorities, the repugs would have to change just about everything they are: predominantly white, male, prejudiced and misogynistic. But ole Phyllis has a better plan which doesn’t involve change at all. Unfortunately, it doesn’t involve winning the presidency either.
Frankly, I am surprised that Schaffly is still alive. She was spouting this kind of crap sooo many years ago. Women should not work!! was her battle cry. Look how well that turned out.
6Dear Phyllis gained her fame by being a token women for the Republican party, travelling the country telling us women to stay home and tend to our motherly duties– the professional anti-women woman. I didn’t notice, but does she have just a tiny adam,s apple?
7I didn’t know that racist bat was still alive!
8Arguably, the GOP may have no choice but to do as Schlafly suggests. The Bachmanns, the Gohmerts, the other frothy-mouthed conservatives, at whom we stare in wonder, are nominated by a small percent of the electorate, old, white people voting in Republican primaries. That small turnout compels Republican candidates to express extreme, right-wing, racist positions. But those old white people are dying, not all at once, but gradually.* Consequently, the GOP must either offend the surviving OWPs by appealing to more moderate voters or replace the dead ones with like-minded YWPs.
9Unfortunately, the GOP has a pool of potential primary voters to pursue, YWPS who vote against their own interests, ignoring reality, and substituting imagined facts, that support their world view, for what is real. In the past I have referred to those folks as “$20,000 a year millionaires.” As the economy improves, no thanks to most GOP office holders, it may be time to think of them as $25,000 a year millionaires.
*Should anyone be offended by the cavalier reference to old white people dying, please note that I am an OWP, but in good health, and always voting for Democrats.
Bless her heart. Living in fact free world. There really must be something in the DSSM-IV for that sort of thing.
10Doesn’t it make you feel warm and cuddly all over….. to know that Texas schools are going to teach their students aboug Phyllis?
Thomas Jefferson…….. no….. Phyllis Schaffly….. in Texas…… o.k.
I just ate a Dairy Queen burger. I will not….. I will not….. puke it up…..what I will do…… is take an Zantac.
Good Grief! This woman is so offensive you cannot describe it .
11“about”
12“Reaching out to white voters” means more fear mongering on the part of Schlafly, and the other Über Dingbats, running the GOP at this time.
13Gad, and I thought I was old! Phyl says in the interview that Rethugs will be “committing suicide” if they pass immigration reform. Ha! I don’t think they can wriggle out of it now. Vaya con Dios, Phyllis, don’t let la puerta hit you in the *ss on the way to OWP heaven. And don’t think you’re going to get to sit with Mark Twain or anybody else worth mentioning up there. Putz.
14Uncle Dave, that’s some good stuff there. You posit that it truly is a Hobson’s Choice for them. Kind of like the photo-negative of Henry Ford’s famous Model T marketing ploy:
“You can have your GOP any color you want it, so long as you want it white.” And Christian. And straight.
I had assumed that they were capable, if unwilling, to break through that. You’ve given me much to think about.
15Miemaw: I think your typo, plus VeeGee’s “Gad” was approaching the Freudian, there.
“Aboug” – a bug – Phyllis Gadfly.
16Remember when the Texas State Board of Education wanted Jefferson out of history textbooks and Schafly in? One of my retired history teacher friends said, “Who’s Schafly?” Exactly.
17I wonder if her husband is still giving her permission to go out and do speaking engagements…. or if he’s been lucky enough to claw his way out of this life and into the next, to get away from her.
18What a zero sum! She has a son who is gay! Her husband “allowed” her to get a law degree and travel the country reaping in big bucks by telling other women to stay home and stay poor! Even though she is not spouting all sorts of things such as the poor ****ards who stand on street corners shouting wild eyed profanity at the sky, she is decompensating just like they are but country club style. Give unto me a break, PS!
19Talk about expired sell by date. Ol’ Phyllis is going to die like the rest of us, but her hair will exist longer than cockroaches.
20June Bug, back in the late ’60s/early ’70s I became aware of Schflay and thought of her as a woman who flew all over the country trying to persuade other women to stay home.
There was a recurring cat food commercial then, showing a Persian cat with jeweled necklace eating from a crystal bowl. I thought of Schflay as a “Persian cat” sort of woman–she was well kept as a pet and she considered feminism a threat to her comfy (and less than honorable) lifestyle.
21OMG didn’t know the old bag was still kickin’. Juanita I wish you had “like” buttons or star ratings for your stuff and the comments. Enjoy it all so much. Very funny stuff. Thanks!
22@ June Bug my mama referred to those neck appendages of Ms (!) Schafly’s as “turkey wattles” and may have cut a bargain w the devil so as not to get them-she’s 77 and a hair “jowly” but NO wattles!
23Her husband died in 1993 so she’s been running around without “someone to keep her in her place” for 20 years.
24Her words, not mine. I can’t abide the woman, nor any of her views. I think she’s toxic.
25That’s a very old picture of ole Phyllis; she’ll turn 89 in August according to Wiki. One of her sons, Andrew, got some publicity several years ago for being one of the “conservatives” working to rewrite the Bible to remove anything they found that sounded liberal. Sounds like it will be a short New Testament.
26Phyllis Schlafly – so much brilliance in a life wasted in the service of evil. Keep a wooden stake handy for the time she passes. The world does not need her rising from the grave.
27Yeah, because pushing Proposition 187 worked so well for the Republican Party in California. (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2010/05/11/shades-of-prop-187-pete-wilson-cuts-immigration-ad-for-whitman/)
Wilson was re-elected governor of California in 1994 by making his support of Proposition 187 – aimed at barring illegal immigrants from using California social services — a centerpiece of his campaign.
The ballot measure was initially approved by voters, but eventually ruled unconstitutional in federal court. The measure has been cast as a milestone in the collapse of the modern California Republican Party for driving Hispanic voters to the Democratic Party. (Although, not all conservatives buy that theory.)
28Don’t know anything about Phyllis’s husband, but I hope he qualified for Heaven, since he lived with evil incarnate here on Earth (poor thing – RIP). She’s a hypocrite all right, but I like her advice to Repuglicans — should make it even easier for Democrats in coming elections. I hope so.
29@June: You are referring to the Conservapedia Bible Project. Last I heard they had to give it up. They went through a few translators who were producing translations that were “too liberal.”
I think that a lot of conservatives really do have some sort of mental or psychological issues. Everything is “too liberal” for them. Nothing is ever conservative enough. And each one of them thinks they are the only true conservative.
It is amazing that it never occurs to these people that if you think EVERYTHING is “too liberal”, then maybe the problem is you.
30From the tv show Justified:
“You run into an a**hole in the morning, you ran into an a**hole; you run into a**holes all day, you’re the a**hole.”
31Rubymay, since he probably took sweet Jesus as his savior, he’s probably there, but not because of living with Phyllis. I’d say since he was a lawyer and he was an enabler of her “mission,” that’s the only way he’d get there.
God is good and his ways are not for us to understand.
32I would love to see you in the same room with Phyllis Shoofly! You could clear out that pesky ol’ deficit by selling tickets and donating the proceeds to the guvment.
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