John Mccain Would Lose The South Carolina Primary By Twelve

John McCain would lose the South Carolina Primary by twelve points, and endorsed George Bush a few months later. The 2008 campaign was rife with racist imagery and attacks, but in fairness this divisiveness was present in both the Democratic and Republican parties. The â€Å"Birther Movement,† which claims that President Obama was not born in Hawaii but instead in Kenya, or another muslim state, and frequently claims that the former President is secretly a muslim. This case in many ways is the culmination of the issue facing â€Å"The Party Decides,† because John McCain, now the Republican nominee after falling short eight years before, struck down notions that then Senator Obama was foreign born, Muslim, or an Arab.This was not an easy†¦show more content†¦Newt Gingrich had some of the most prominent racist flubs, as he lasted longer than his less disciplined counterparts. In one instance he referred to the spanish language as â€Å"The Language of the Ghe tto,† called President Obama the best â€Å"Food stamp† president of all time, and issued a challenge to the NAACP, saying, I m prepared, if the NAACP invites me, I ll go to their convention and talk about why the African American community should demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps, Gingrich told a crowd in Plymouth, New Hampshire. This was racist two-fer on Gingrich s part, as NAACP President and CEO Benjamin Jealous indicated, saying: It is a shame that the former speaker feels that these types of inaccurate, divisive statements are in any way helpful to our country. The majority of people using food stamps are not African-American, and most people using food stamps have a job (Rosenberg, 2012). Donald Trump’s nomination can be clearly seen as not the result of electoral flubs or the chance of history, but the result of a decades old movement. In campaign after campaign there have been candidates appealing to the same nativist tendencies, and voters who support them. It further shows another instance of a movement building within and without a party ultimately capturing the party and nominating one of their own. In Bryan’s, Reagan s, Clinton, and Trump’s cases political commentators at the time were stunned that the party bosses could be soShow MoreRelatedFundamentals of Hrm263904 Words   |  1056 Pagesimplementation support www.wileyplus.com/accountmanager MAKE IT YOURS! Fundamentals of Human Resource Management Tenth Edition David A. DeCenzo Coastal Carolina University Conway, SC Stephen P. Robbins San Diego State University San Diego, CA Tenth Edition Contributor Susan L. Verhulst Des Moines Area Community College Ankeny, IA John Wiley Sons, Inc. Associate Publisher Executive Editor Senior Editoral Assistant Marketing Manager Marketing Assistant Production Manager Senior Production