Bak: Yep, that’s true – however, I suspect if Mr. Watt were being truly honest about his beliefs, he’d clarify and state that he was referring to white Republicans, not just whites in general. Of course this is mildly ironic considering the district that was drawn up that he serves now was drawn specifically to get a black representative elected because according to ‘polls’ black people in areas of the state didn’t feel like they were being represented fairly in Congress by white representatives … so they drew a district that was heavily black, so a black representative would be guaranteed to be elected.

Bach: Good idea, though I’ve already sent the email … it’s probably already in his file thirteen by now anyway. LOL.

Severian: I’m trying to figure out just what his goals are. And last I checked, there was nothing about this on his website. Oddly, I can’t seem to find his comments anywhere in the MSM (CNS is the only source so far). Imagine that …

Pam: I’ll check out the link … thanks for doing that research! And yes, I was insulted by Mr. Watt’s comments, but sadly am used to his baloney at this point. Still, some comments reeeally rub the wrong way, you know?

Dana: You make some good points – see my note to Baklava on what I thought Mr. Watt really meant to say (had he been totally honest). Glad to hear you’ve advanced in the TTLB EcoSystem! I’m still stuck at the “Large Mammal” stage and the hurdle is high to climb in order to get to the next level (which is “Playful Primate”) and I’d have to get about 360 more inbound links to get to that level… ah well!:shock:

It has been different in the Senate: three blacks have been elected to Senate seats in recent years, one Republican and two Democrats, and all represented majority white states.

I lived in Virginia when Douglas Wilder was elected as the first (and still only) black governor since Reconstruction. (See Baklava’s comment.) And I voted for him: the Republican nominee, Marshall Coleman, could best be described by the slang term for the human rectum, and Virginia voters saw that.

By the way, Sis, thanks for the clue on the TTLB Ecosystem: now I’m up from Adorable Little Rodent to Marauding Marsupial!

Once again, we see the type of totally clueless, illogical, surreality that liberal thought produces. An orange is tart, therefore I like potato chips type of exercise in rationalization. What the fact that whites allegedly won’t vote for blacks has to do with a dated voters rights act is beyond me. Maybe he feels that this calls for voter fraud?

Yeah, whites don’t vote for blacks, that explains people like Barak Obama and the push for Condi Rice to run. And even if a person will never vote for a black candidate, that is their RIGHT under a democracy. When you start forcing people to vote a certain way, you’re right in the same boat as the former Soviet Union, unanimous voting as you are told what and who to vote for.

Sheese.

Even over a decade aga Douglas Wilder was able to be elected governor of Virginia. Sure that’s not North Carolina but it is a bordering state with much of the same type of demographics.

Unfortunately, Liberal Democrats do not even see e-mail that doesn’t flatter them. It is standard orders to the staff to ditch all out of district and non-agreeing correspondance. Babs Boxer and DI-FI are established in this procedure from the early 90’s. Boxer would even order the phones turned off in their district offices.

Oh, Tammy Bruce did the dump the callers routine, too, at KFI.