Governor Rendell recently announced very publicly his support for Hillary Clinton for President.
The Governor's comments are excerpted from Tony Norman's Gov. 'Blunt Talk' Rendell (and other topics) Tuesday, February 12, 2008 (among those who attended the Pittsburgh Post Gazette interview of Gov. Rendell)
If this commentary is true, Rendell is totally exposed for the fraud he is.
Some Democrats, he said, would pass along reports of voters refusing to back Mr. Swann because of his color.
Rendell has even more explaining to do, because if he said "conservative whites" in the interview, then who was he speaking of when referring to voters who reported back to some Democrats? The same conservative whites?
To Nora O'Donnell, he continued to defend what he'd said in the Post-Gazette interview, and added: there are a few whites who won't vote for Obama... in the Primaries, contests are often won by a few votes.
Well, if Rendell is now speaking about a Primary, the Primary in Pennsylvania is a two-Party thing. Independents cannot vote in the Primary for the Democrat or the Republican candidate.
Republicans cannot vote in the Democrat Primary, although Republicans have the same choice as voters in the Democrat Primary and can write-in a name which could be a name of anybody or someone on the ballot of the opposing major Party.
So is Rendell referring to Democrat Primary voters?
Even if Rendell is referring to conservative white voters, he's still wrong - prior to the 2006 Primary Election wherein Lynn Swann's name was floated as a candidate for Governor of PA on the Republican ticket, of course there was controversy among Republicans as to whom should be the Republican candidate.
Why would any Republicans in their right mind inform any Democrat that they would not vote for Lynn Swann because of his color? That would be the last thing any would do. Seriously, the Republican is perceived a certain way from the get-go, why confirm the perception.
Some may have said they wouldn't support Lynn Swann as Governor, but there were splits in the Republican camp because other Republicans candidates were initially in the mix. Those Republicans may have favored other than Swann for whatever their political preferences - his positions on some issues were at variance with some conservatives.
Guess who all voted for Lynn Swann in the Primary of 2006, though? Swann was the only Republican candidate on the ballot because others bowed out after the Republican State Committee endorsed Swann.
Last time anybody checked voting patterns, Republicans in the Primary who are registered as such vote for Republican candidates, with a few exceptions for write-ins which could be anybody, even a Democrat or Green.
It wasn't like Swann only got ten votes in the Primary. In fact, there was an increase in voter registration among Republicans because of Swann's candidacy for Governor! Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
As we noted yesterday, even if Rendell were speaking of conservative whites, he'd be incorrect using Lynn Swann as an example. Swann was the choice over white candidates in the Republican state committee's meeting, and everybody knows statewide there are fewer African Americans registered as Republicans than registered as Democrats in the state of PA. So those who supported and voted for Republican African American Lynn Swann were conservative and white.
Rendell now tries to retreat from his own words. What he doesn't understand is he is so far gone in his own ego and support for Hillary Clinton, he is in a state of deflection. Basically he's following the same pattern the Clinton's have followed since Bill Clinton was elected to any political position, including Attorney General of the state of Arkansas
Would anybody be surprised if Rendell's stumping is designed to gain him a place in a Hillary Clinton Administration?
We questioned yesterday when election integrity activists would rise up in the state and demand Rendell put his attention toward the fallible electronic touch screen voting systems which have been slammed for "flipping" votes during the 2006 Senate race between Rick Santorum and Robert Casey, Jr.
Should Hillary Clinton win by a slim margin in PA, there should be an automatic recount. Say what, there'd be little to recount (other than a print-out of a digital image stored on a memory card) since the DREs are paper-less?
(Net the Truth Online)
Rendell offers his defense on Obama race remark
Thursday, February 14, 2008
By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
A clearly rattled Mr. Rendell yesterday took to the airwaves -- he made a point of appearing on MSNBC to explain himself -- and to other media to make clear that he was not attempting to invoke race to the detriment of Mr. Obama.
In an interview with the Post-Gazette, Mr. Rendell cited his own experience in 2006. Some Democrats, he said, would pass along reports of voters refusing to back Mr. Swann because of his color. Sometimes, he said, voters told him as much to his face.
"It made me feel so uncomfortable," he said. "I felt like strangling those people. If I weren't running for office, I probably would have..."
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08045/857368-85.stm
"You've got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate..."I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann [2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate] been the identical candidate that he was --well-spoken [note: Mr. Rendell did not call the brother "articulate"], charismatic, good-looking -- but white instead of black, instead of winning by 22 points, I would have won by 17 or so..."
We caught part of the interview by Chris Matthews on MSNBC's Hardball last night.
Transcript
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007220&docId=l:744580148&start=1
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Rendell offers his defense on Obama race remark
Thursday, February 14, 2008
By Dennis B. Roddy, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
After dancing across the tripwires of race and politics, Gov. Ed Rendell yesterday defended remarks about whether some Pennsylvania voters would reject Illinois Sen. Barack Obama as a presidential candidate because he is black.
"I regret saying it because of the way it was interpreted," the governor said yesterday. "Remember -- I always tell the truth. Maybe I'm wrong, but I tell what my experience has taught me."
What the latest experience has taught him, Mr. Rendell said, is that a blunt answer on a touchy subject doesn't always work.
"What's so frustrating about this is that in this business, if you give an honest answer, you get skewered for it," Mr. Rendell said. "If you give the politically correct answer, the press says, 'Aw, that guy, he's just a shucker and jiver and never gives a straight answer.' I get in trouble for telling the truth."
Race first surfaced as a divisive point in the Democratic nominating contest when former President Bill Clinton suggested that it had been a factor in the South Carolina primary vote for Mr. Obama, who is black.
Last week, in remarks during a meeting with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board, Mr. Rendell, who has endorsed Mr. Obama's rival, New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, triggered the latest round when assessing Pennsylvania's electorate. Saying some Pennsylvanians likely would not vote for a black candidate, he also suggested that race might have accounted for as much as 5 percent of his winning re-election margin over Republican nominee Lynn Swann, who is black.
The governor said: "You've got conservative whites here ... who are not ready to vote for an African American candidate. I believe, looking at the returns in my election, that had Lynn Swann been the identical candidate that he was -- well-spoken, charismatic, good-looking but white instead of black -- that instead of winning by 22 points, I would have won by 17 or so. I think there was that factor there. And that exists, but on the other hand, that's counterbalanced by Obama's ability to bring new voters into the electoral pool."
The comments, which the governor says were more a lamentation than a calculation, sparked a political squall in cyberspace and on cable news channels. Internet posters accused Mr. Rendell of everything from naivete to outright racism.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08045/857368-85.stm
Rendell: Gender, Race, Part of Politics
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 6:30 PM
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's gender could be as much of an obstacle for her presidential campaign as Sen. Barack Obama's race may be for his, Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Wednesday.
In an interview on MSNBC, Rendell defended his recent comments to a newspaper editorial board in which he said some white Pennsylvanians are likely to vote against Obama because he is black.
"Senator Clinton has the same handicap," said Rendell, who has endorsed the former first lady. "There are some men who have said, 'Look I have nothing against Senator Clinton but I don't want to see a woman ... in charge of the United States military as commander in chief.'"
"We're talking about a very small percentage of voters, but some of these primaries are decided by a very small percentage of voters," he said.
http://www.newsmax.com/politics/rendell_racial_politics/2008/02/13/72495.html
What Rendell says one day and the next
Hardball interview Feb. 13, 2008 clip
...And I have a habit that`s plagued me for my 31 years in politics, I answer the questions and I answer it honestly. And they asked me, and I answered it honestly. But for this to be a big brouhaha and for somehow thinking I was trying to help Senator Clinton -- neither she nor I would want anything like this. And I went through a whole year running against Lynn Swann, and not once did anybody suggest that either Lynn or I or our running mates injected race into the campaign.
MATTHEWS: Well, I think it`s an acute analysis -- it`s a very acute analysis about a 17-point spread instead of a 22-point spread because of an ethnic difference is to me a very surgical statement. And by the way, you offset it by saying Barack is a hell of a lot more charismatic than Lynn Swann, certainly a better speaker, I mean, with a big message, a really big message.
RENDELL: He`s got a better message. He`s got a better message.
MATTHEWS: That Swann didn`t have. Swann didn`t have a rationale...
RENDELL: Absolutely.
MATTHEWS: ... like this guy. Right?
RENDELL: Right. I mean, look...
MATTHEWS: Well, say so!
(LAUGHTER)
RENDELL: ... Barack has a great -- well, Senator Obama has a great rationale for bringing the country together. And I think that is good.
And I think it`s everyone. Whether it is Senator Clinton or Senator McCain, they have to bring us together, because we are sick and tired of the partisan politics as usual in D.C. But once you get us together, where are you going to take us?
And that is why I am for Hillary Clinton...
http://www6.lexisnexis.com/publisher/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument&orgId=574&topicId=100007220&docId=l:744580148&start=1
But no, now Ed Rendell, saying Obama won't win Pennsylvania because they're all racist there, echos Andrew:
"What's so frustrating about this is that in this business, if you give an honest answer, you get skewered for it," Mr. Rendell said. "If you give the politically correct answer, the press says, 'Aw, that guy, he's just a shucker and jiver and never gives a straight answer.' I get in trouble for telling the truth."
The really funny thing in all of this is Rendell using a racially tinged phrase as part of saying that, in fact, white Pennsylvanians are racist -- him too apparently. He has, after all, chosen to go with Hillary Clinton instead of standing athwart the racist voters of Pennsylvania yelling, "Turn from your racism and follow me to hope and change."
Rendell: Shucker and Jiver
By Erick Posted
http://www.redstate.com/stories/elections/2008/rendell_shucker_and_jiver
http://www.confirmthem.com/aggregator
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