The Southern Belles stand by their men folks-Edit

So, the Alabama and Mississippi Suckers have spoken.  I'm not surprised Rick "don't want to give bluh people white folks money" Santorum came in first.  Followed by Newt "lazy blacks on welfare" Gingrich.  Poor Mitt "damn Yankee" Romney came in third, with Ron "racist newsletters" Paul bringing up the rear.

Nor was I surprised to learn Rick and Newt wouldn't have won without the support of white, Republican, women.  One thing my rich southern heritage has taught me is white, Republican, women, stand by their man. 

True story #1;  I attempted to attend a Health Care Town Hall meeting, but couldn't get in, so I was forced to hang out in the parking lot with others who couldn't get in.  A white, visibly pregnant, young women carrying a sign calling The Affordable Health Care Act, socialism (code for welfare for black folks) saying she didn't want to be forced to take ObamaCare.  I told her no one would/could force her to change her present health insurance plan, it was for the 46 million people without health insurance.  She looked me dead in the eye and said, "I don't have insurance".   I kid you not.

True story #2;  While attending a pre-Thanksgiving Dinner/Meeting the talk turned to politics and voting.  One young, white woman claimed she talked to a "black man who said he wasn't voting for Obama".   yeah, right.  Another young, white women said, "I just vote for who my husband tells me to vote for."  I told her she was setting women's rights back 100 years.  She looked at me and said "That's all right", like she was hurting me or something. Sigh

 Best selling author, Kathryn Stockett, via Aibileene in her book The Help, provides insight into the mindset of some (not to be confused with all ) southern, white women.

The Help page 187-188I reckon I know pretty well what would happen in the white ladies found out we was writing about them.  Womens they ain't like men.  a woman ain't gone beat you with a stick.  Miss Hilly wouldn't pull no pistol on me.  Miss Leefolt wouldn't come burn my house down.

No, white womens like to keep they hands clean.   They got a shiny little set a tools they use, shar as witches' fingernails, tidy and laid out neat, like the picks on a dentist tray.  They gone take they time with em.

First thing a white lady  gone do is fire you.  You upset, but you figure you'll find another job, when things settle down, when the white lade get around to forgetting.  You got a month a rent saved.  People bring you squash casseroles.

But a week after you lost your job, you get this little yellow envelope stuck in your screen door.  Paper inside say   NOTICE OF EVICTION.  Ever landlord in Jackson be white and ever one got a white wife that's friends with somebody.  You start to panic some then.  You still ain't got not job prospects.  Everywhere you try, the door slams in your face.  And now you ain't got a place to live.

Then is starts to come a little faster.

I will never understand how any self, respecting woman could vote for a Republican, for any reason   I just can't.

Power of the privileged.  The privilege of the powerful.

I guess it depends on what the definition of 'Pro Life' IS

Republicans are pro life as long as it's in the womb, but once a person is born they find lots of reason to kill them.  Which brings me to white male, media enabled,  Catholic Church  so called controversy over President Obama's decision to provide women with basic healthcare.

Viagra and Cilas for male employees are covered by health insurance, but contraceptives for female employees are  not covered by health insurance.  What's wrong with this picture?

How any self respecting woman can vote for a republican is a mystery to me.

Herman Cain says "If you are falsely accused of sexual harassment, it's your own fault. You need to blame yourself!!!"

Campaign buttons for Republican Presidential candidate Herman Cain are seen on sale as he campaigned Friday in Talladega, Ala.

A big old H/T to Shady Grady for the perfect headline for this post. I have been snickering all day watching gop, Presidential front runner Herman Cain twist in the wind due to Politico's expose of the charges of sexual harassment in his past.

Josh Marshall
I’m trying to put together a Herman Cain harassment timeline. This is a work in progress because I’m having a hard time keep track of it all. So bear with me.

1. Politico allegations are false. Story is crap.

2. Yes, there were allegations. But they were false.

3. Yes there were allegations that were false and I don’t know what money was paid.

4. I don’t know whether money was paid. And it would be wrong for me to find out whether money was paid because it’s confidential.

5. There was a in-depth investigation. And I was cleared. But I don’t know anything about it.

6. Here’s the gesture that led to my getting accused of harassment.

7. Okay, I remember some discussion of a settlement number.

Yep. Herman punk'd the republicans and the media big time. I mean, didn't they vet this guy? Or, did they honestly think we wouldn't find out about those scary skeletons in his closet?

Field Negro

I would like to welcome Mr. 9-9-9 to the world of big time politics.

It seems that my man forgot one thing while he was jigging and joking his way into the hearts of white conservatives across A-merry-ca: Your skeletons will always come back to haunt you. We all have them. But we don't all try to get elected as the leader of the free world, or, for that matter, to become a member of the most powerful "democratic" judicial body on earth.

And so here we go again; yet another black conservative is the victim of a "high tech lynching". The last one survived the metaphoric rope around his neck and ultimately found himself in a position where he can influence whether a rope is put around the neck of others.

Have the media and the gop forgotten the vague accusations of Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Anita Hill?

I wonder if the Koch Brothers are going to repossess Cain's big, nice, shiny bus?

I wonder if the Huntsville Federation of Republican women regret inviting him to dinner at the Marriott?

I wonder if Herman Cain is still Alabama State Senator Scott Beason's (r. racist Gardendale) Boy?

I almost feel sorry for the gop and the mainstream media. They thought they had themselves the perfect racist in Herman Cain.

Herman Cain has become, in many ways, the perfect racist. America lives under the interesting premise that a racist can’t be Black. That’s like believing that a man can’t hate his sibling, or that a woman can’t advocate for a man to beat his wife (as Whoopi did to Oprah in “The Color Purple”). The truth is that racism is typically most effective when you put a Black face on it, and Herman Cain has volunteered to become the cute little political puppet which allows white America to say the things that they are afraid to say.

Too bad. So sad.
Not.