# On election Eve, Freepers hit a new low **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 3, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946 "2008-11-03T23:49:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/161 "2008-11-05T03:43:35Z")
> [@askeptic](#): > > Scylla, > > I regret the things have said in this and other threads. The future is starting to look beautiful and I hate to start it off with the same old animosity. If you will accept my apology I humbly offer it. The same goes for any other Republicans or conservatives. This is hopefully the beginning of something great, lets try to break the mold and just discuss things rationally and try to respectfully disagree. > Sincerely, > > Jason Of course. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/162 "2008-11-05T03:44:35Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I prefer to be challenged more than admired. Well … I guess you’ve come to the right place then. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Understander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3da27b/32.png) [@The\_Understander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Understander)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/163 "2008-11-05T03:47:15Z")
Universe help me, I just can’t help myself (and the schadenfraude is delicious. So’s the veal.) Listen to their lil’ heads [asplode](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125300/posts). ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/164 "2008-11-05T03:50:03Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Not for nothing, but if it were up to me, I’d take “Pull the other one, it’s got bells …” out back, shoot it, and bury it in the woods. May we replace it with, “I’ll believe half of that if you can find someone else to believe the other half. By itself, it’s too much for me.” ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/165 "2008-11-05T03:50:46Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Well … I guess you’ve come to the right place then. I still hold the threadspotting championship. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/166 "2008-11-05T03:52:02Z")
> [@Enfant Terrible](#): > > Universe help me, I just can’t help myself (and the schadenfraude is delicious. So’s the veal.) > > Listen to their lil’ heads [asplode](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125300/posts). Ahh yes, It reminds me of 2000 and 2004 on the SDMB. Good times. Good times. ---
**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:** [November 5, 2008, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/167 "2008-11-05T03:53:08Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > And, yes … I’m claiming “Spock’s Beard” as a band name. [Dude, you are waaaaaaaaay too slow.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spocks_Beard) ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/168 "2008-11-05T03:54:04Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I still hold the threadspotting championship. And I’m sure you penis is 10 inches long too. Who gives a shit? ---
**Author:** ![Trepa\_Mayfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/edb3f5/32.png) [@Trepa\_Mayfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trepa_Mayfield)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/169 "2008-11-05T03:57:11Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Of course. Thanks. And this is the reason I love the Dope. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/170 "2008-11-05T03:57:15Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > [Dude, you are waaaaaaaaay too slow.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spocks_Beard) Oh, I smell a retro-active lawsuit in the future. There must be some sort of intellectual property/deja vu (I knew that sounded familiar) tort on the books. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/171 "2008-11-05T03:57:30Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > And I’m sure you penis is 10 inches long too. Who gives a shit? No threadspottings and a small penis, huh? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/172 "2008-11-05T03:58:09Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Ahh yes, It reminds me of 2000 and 2004 on the SDMB. Good times. Good times. Dude. If you really think that thread is reminiscent of the post-'00 and '04 election threads here… we’ll just have to agree to disagree, because I think you’re nuts. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/173 "2008-11-05T03:58:33Z")
> [@Enfant Terrible](#): > > Universe help me, I just can’t help myself (and the schadenfraude is delicious. So’s the veal.) > > Listen to their lil’ heads [asplode](http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2125300/posts). Hmm. In actuality, they’re taking it a bit harder than you guys did. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/174 "2008-11-05T04:00:20Z")
Gee, you think? ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/175 "2008-11-05T04:00:25Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > Dude. > > If you really think that thread is reminiscent of the post-'00 and '04 election threads here… we’ll just have to agree to disagree, because I think you’re nuts. I was a little premature in that post, and I’ve since corrected that asessment. Sheesh. ---
**Author:** ![Scylla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a5b964/32.png) [@Scylla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scylla)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/176 "2008-11-05T04:03:02Z")
> [@Jack\_Batty](#): > > Gee, you think? Hey, my mind is flexible and I adapt to new data. The 10 inch penis gives me the confidence to do so. You should get one. Just don’t wear the extension overnight. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/177 "2008-11-05T04:04:12Z")
If I had one, I wouldn’t need the talcum powder. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/178 "2008-11-05T04:20:35Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I’m not trying to build them up and put us down. But Redskins fans aren’t really all the different from Steelers fans. Except we’re better. (At least, we proved that yesterday.) 😃 BTW, I’d like to say, I don’t know how you feel about me, but I always thought you were pretty cool, even if I disagree with you a lot of the time. (And ANYONE who’d voluntarily undergo waterboarding-provided you weren’t shitting us-I didn’t stay to read the entire thing once it got to about 15 or more pages-has some MAJOR cojones) ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2008, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/179 "2008-11-05T04:34:07Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > I was a little premature in that post, and I’ve since corrected that asessment. Sheesh. Consider yourself de-nutsed. And I mean that in the nicest possible way. 😃 ---
**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:** [November 5, 2008, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946/180 "2008-11-05T04:43:21Z")
> [@Scylla](#): > > Again, I think it was just yesterday that DT, told me that Racial hatred was was central to Republicans. > > You have anything from Shodan to top that? And you were given cites in that other thread to show that this is not a crazy statement. Here, let me help you again: [Southern strategy - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy) > [@wikipedia](#): > > In American politics, the Southern strategy refers to a Republican method of carrying Southern states in the latter decades of the 20th century and first decade of the 21st century by exploiting racism among white voters. Not enough for you? [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/13/AR2005071302342.html) > [@Washington Post](#): > > It was called “the southern strategy,” started under Richard M. Nixon in 1968, and described Republican efforts to use race as a wedge issue – on matters such as desegregation and busing – to appeal to white southern voters. More? [http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-GOP-racial-politics\_x.htm](http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-GOP-racial-politics_x.htm) > [@USA Today](#): > > Republican National Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman apologized to one of the nation’s largest black civil rights groups Thursday, saying Republicans had not done enough to court blacks in the past and had exploited racial strife to court white voters, particularly in the South. Still unsure that this is true? (from the wikipedia article; unable to find a link to original article) > [@Kevin Phillips](#): > > From now on, the Republicans are never going to get more than 10 to 20 percent of the Negro vote and they don’t need any more than that… but Republicans would be shortsighted if they weakened enforcement of the Voting Rights Act. The more Negroes who register as Democrats in the South, the sooner the Negrophobe whites will quit the Democrats and become Republicans. That’s where the votes are. Without that prodding from the blacks, the whites will backslide into their old comfortable arrangement with the local Democrats. It is a **fact** that racism was utilized by The Republican party, in an institutionalized manner, to cull white voters. It is not a hateful rumor, a false smear, or an unwarranted “attack” to point out that this strategy existed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/on-election-eve-freepers-hit-a-new-low/470946.md?page=10)