Redhead Rambles

The Republicans have kind of painted themselves into a real demographic corner. And you hear people like even Jeb Bush saying that they have to change for the long term because this view of white, Anglo-Saxon Americans — ‘I’m a true American, no one questions where I was born’ — sort of thing is really off-putting to those of us who believe that our diversity is our strength.

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When you have a party that says coded things, that makes totally false ads up about saying the president is trying to undo welfare reform, I think you’re going to see a lot of pretty heavily and not-so-subtly coded messages from the Romney-Ryan campaign that it is not in keeping an America with that is moving forward, that is growing, that is becoming more diverse with fuller freedoms for every individual.