(NNPA)—If you ever doubted that conservatives were sore losers, the recent Senate election in Mississippi should remove all doubt.
After complaining for a half century about Blacks not voting for Republicans, African-Americans did just that in the GOP runoff between incumbent Senator Thad Cochran and State Senator Chris McDaniel, a staunch Tea Party supporter. And because Blacks did not vote for McDaniel against their best interest, right-wingers are livid.
Rush Limbaugh called Blacks who voted for Cochran “Uncle Toms.”
According to a transcript of his radio program, he said: “I wonder what the campaign slogan was in Mississippi in the past couple of days: Uncle Toms for Thad? ‘Cause I thought it was the worst thing you could do as an African-American. Voting for a Republican is the absolute worst thing you could do, but somehow they were made to believe that voting for old Thad would be fine and dandy.”
Later in the program, Limbaugh said, “…Insider Republicans in the Senate bought nine percentage points, 8 or 9 percentage points from the Black Uncle Tom voters in Mississippi (interruption). Well, isn’t that what they call Clarence Thomas? Condoleezza Rice? They call ‘em Uncle Toms, the Republicans. These guys had voted for Thad? Uncle Toms for Thad.”
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