I'm a day behind on the news so I'm probably the last one to see the Nikki Tinker ad attacking Steve Cohen for not being "one of us":
A lot has already been written about it today and I don't mean to be repetitive, but...OF COURSE it's fucking anti-Semitic! It's not even a "dog whistle" or "code words", it's clear as day. Nikki Tinker has said that because of religion, Steve Cohen can never truly be "one of them."
It's one of the reasons why I'm pessimistic about the prospects of a Jewish politician getting anywhere beyond Cohen's level in the South. Even people who may not normally be anti-Semitic will not be able to resist the urge to use that exact framing--"So and so is not one of us, can never really be one of us."
You come to expect that from Republicans, but I guess we've reached the point where we can expect that from Democrats as well. Autoegocrat took the thoughts right out of my head--I don't know if there is anyone really in charge at the TNDP right now. Between this and the Fred Hobbs episode, we have no organization and no clear message.
Is this how we plan on winning in 2010?
Memphis, don't fucking screw this up tomorrow.
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
On Nikki Goebbels Tinker
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I don't know what team I'm supposed to be on, but I always figured we were on the same one GoldnI.
Oh, it got worse. I put up a post on the Bruin Dems blog with the latest updates, including an Armenian harassing Cohen over that Armenian genocide non-vote last year, who just happens to be a GOP operative, and is now pressing assault charges against Cohen.
Stunts like this by the anti-cohen wing of the shelby county democrat party is why I think Steve will probably run for Governor in '10 or against Corker in '12. He's just going to get sick of these people and say to hell with all of them.
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