# Have the recent scandals screwed the Dems for the mid terms? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [May 16, 2013, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517 "2013-05-16T16:04:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/7ba0ec/32.png) [@Omg\_a\_Black\_Conservative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omg_a_Black_Conservative)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/201 "2013-05-26T14:48:48Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > You’re criticizing democrats for appealing to everyone _except_ older, white males. Unless you happen to think white males are more important than anyone else, that makes absolutely no sense. This still isn’t true, no matter how many times it’s stated. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/202 "2013-05-26T16:35:22Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Your assertion was proven false. > > If you’d now like to move the goal posts on that assertion from “having to do with Asians” to “against Asians” please say so in clear language. > > Seeing how often you’ve moved goalposts on other things just in this thread, I suspect you’ll be by sometime soon to affirm that you wish to do so. It’s certainly an interesting form of argument. He’s certainly correct that Republicans haven’t been involved in any racial gaffes regarding Asians if when others bring up such gaffes you insist they weren’t gaffes. The people of Nevada disagreed and reacted quite negatively to Angle’s comments. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/203 "2013-05-26T16:48:24Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > That’s pretty lame. It’s not even a gaffe against Asians, or Latinos for that matter. Heck, Arab guys I know get chatted up in Spanish by Cubans all the time. Failure to tell people apart is not just a white trait, and it’s certainly not a racist trait. > > Meanwhile, we have both Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton saying naughty things about Indian-Americans: > > “In Delaware, the largest growth of population is Indian-Americans, moving from India. You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent. I’m not joking,”-Biden > > And Clinton joked that Gandhi used to run a gas station. > > Then there’s the Obama campaign, suggesting that Clinton was the Senator from Punjab. > > Or the slur against Nikki Haley only last month by the head of the SC Democratic Party. > > And moving on to Chinese, the attack on Mitch McConnell’s wife’s nationality from Progress Kentucky. > > Another thing many liberals don’t realize is how offensive the outsourcing fearmongering is to Asians when said the wrong way. You apparantly forgot about Al D’Amato deciding to ridicule Judge Lance Ito during one radio interview by speaking with a parody of a Japanese accent straight out of some WWII movie even though Judge Ito is a third-generation American who speaks perfect English without an accent and probably wouldn’t even know how to order dinner at a Kyoto restaurant. You also forgot the infamous “Debby spend-it-now” ad and, since you’re claiming that criticizing outsourcing is racist the infamous “Chinese professor” ad. Also, if you’re going to point to Democratic remarks regarding South Asains, why are you ignoring all the Republican comments regarding South Asian Muslims. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2013, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/204 "2013-05-26T17:47:38Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > It’s certainly an interesting form of argument. He’s certainly correct that Republicans haven’t been involved in any racial gaffes regarding Asians if when others bring up such gaffes you insist they weren’t gaffes. > > The people of Nevada disagreed and reacted quite negatively to Angle’s comments. Well, the _good_ people of Nevada disagreed and reacted quite negatively to Angle’s comments, yes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![CJJ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecc23a/32.png) [@CJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/205 "2013-05-28T15:11:20Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > In other words, you have a quota, it’s just not written down on paper. I thought about posting a patient reply to this, but as you’re simply defining terms in whatever way accommodates your simplistic world-view, I’ll let this one pass. I’m assured that others who read this thread without a particular ax to grind will learn just as I have to ignore your posts. ---
**Author:** ![adaher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@adaher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adaher)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/206 "2013-05-28T16:36:17Z")
A patient reply would be welcome. A reply that involves twisting into knots explaining how one can take race into account without discriminating unfairly is not a patient reply, it borders on the legalistic. Anyway, it looks like SCOTUS will put the final nail in the coffin this week, at least as it regards university admissions. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517/207 "2013-05-29T23:58:31Z")
> [@adaher](#): > > A patient reply would be welcome. A reply that involves twisting into knots explaining how one can take race into account without discriminating unfairly is not a patient reply, it borders on the legalistic. Even if your point were true, it would have bugger all to do with “quotas”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-the-recent-scandals-screwed-the-dems-for-the-mid-terms/658517.md?page=10)