Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: The GOP is full of racists

Wilkerson has got that right...and most of the racists (except for the proud-of-it KKK/Nazi white supremacist types) will never admit they are racists. They cringe inside when they see Obama's dark skin color and they rage with racist diatribes at his wife whose skin color is even darker, and they long with all their being to see a white man and his family in the presidential mansion. Never mind that the white man they now want is a hypocrite and a liar who spins like a top to please his Tea Party fanatics, without any convictions of his own. Never mind that their last Republican white man and his white puppet master in the White House brought this country down on its knees and left it in near ruin.

I would never want to be a member of a party that had people like Sununu in it -- or that actually tented in the KKK/Nazi white supremacists without a word of condemnation of those ignorant low lives!  I would like to say to all Republicans:  Look around you, look at the people in your party who surround you, look at the leaders of your party who give voice to racism, who put down women, and who hate anyone they see as "other." Look at the policies of the men you are voting for, who demand that a raped woman/girl carry the rapist's child to term and who want to cut off help to those who need it most, especially children and seniors.  This is very low consciousness.  Do you really want to keep company with people like this?  Do you really want to vote them into high office so they can impose their lunacy on us? Are the ideological beliefs of hate-fueled fanatics something you agree with?

Take a good look at Paul Ryan and his uncompromising, uncompassionate dictator-like beliefs that will be imposed on us should he reach the White House position of power. Take a good look at the Mitt Romney who declared that "47% of Americans want handouts. They don't want to take responsibility for themselves" and realize that, as members of the middle class receiving Social Security, Medicare, military pensions or other government "Handouts," YOU and YOUR FAMILY are included in that number! No matter what he says in refutation, that is what Mitt Romney really believes -- and he will do everything he can to get rid of the middle class and stop the "handouts" that help your fellow Americans to keep their homes and feed their families. Romney and Ryan want to pull the rug out from under the middle class -- they want an oligarchy, a plutocracy, and that's what we will have with them in power--keeping the taxes on the richest among us at an all-time low while raising them (taking away deductions, etc.) on the rest of us.  Read what Wilkerson says in the following article:

From the Huffington Post:

Colin Powell's former chief of staff condemned the Republican Party on Friday night, telling MSNBC's Ed Schultz, "My party is full of racists."

Retired Army Col. Lawrence Wilkerson made the comment in response to Mitt Romney campaign surrogate John Sununu's suggestion on Thursday that Powell's endorsement of President Barack Obama's re-election was motivated by race. Wilkerson, who served as Powell's chief of staff when the general was secretary of state during the first George W. Bush term, told Schultz that he respected Sununu "as a Republican, as a member of my party," but did not "have any respect for the integrity of the position that [Sununu] seemed to codify."

When asked by Schultz what, if anything, the remark said about the attitudes of the Republican Party, Wilkerson said:

My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people -- not all of them, but most of them -- who are still basing their positions on race. Let me just be candid: My party is full of racists, and the real reason a considerable portion of my party wants President Obama out of the White House has nothing to do with the content of his character, nothing to do with his competence as commander-in-chief and president, and everything to do with the color of his skin, and that's despicable.

The retired colonel also said that "to say that Colin Powell would endorse President Obama because of his skin color is like saying Mother Theresa worked for profit."

Powell, a Republican, endorsed Obama for the second time on Thursday morning -- he also backed the president in 2008 -- saying on CBS' "This Morning" that he was "more comfortable with President Obama and his administration" than with Romney on a host of issues.

Sununu, no stranger to incendiary rhetoric this election cycle, reacted to the endorsement on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight," saying that "when you take a look at Colin Powell, you have to wonder whether that's an endorsement based on issues or whether he's got a slightly different reason for preferring President Obama."