Donald Trump did not do himself any favors last week with his infamous late night tweet addressing the situation involving former Miss Universe Alicia Machado. It was seen by many as yet another in a string of faux pas that have at times threatened to derail his Whitehouse hopes. On the heels of a less than inspiring debate performance some even feared of a campaign regression back to the undisciplined approach of the past. As the dust settles on this manufactured controversy the ultimate harm may be felt by a party willing to deploy a former Miss Universe as a weapon against the Republican nominee.
The Democrats have disgraced themselves this election cycle. As we learned via Wikileaks, they plotted to hurt their own candidate, Bernie Sanders, with southern voters using his Jewish faith, "This could make several points difference with my peeps. My Southern Baptist peeps would draw a big difference between a Jew and an atheist," DNC chief financial officer Brad Marshall wrote. This backs up both Sander’s and Trump’s claims that the system is rigged and in need of an outsider to reestablish the “people’s government.”
Also discovered through Wikileaks were several blatant instances of racism in email communications. In one, Democratic operatives made fun of a black woman’s name. Zachary Allen, Democratic consultant with the firm TIPAH Consulting, made fun of LaQueenia Gibson’s name. “LaQueenia is a name!” Allen wrote to Scott Comer, the finance chief of staff and LGBT finance director for the Democratic National Committee, “I’m sorry, boo. I hope you got a raise with this title.” In another, creative strategist Rebecca Christopher sends a script for a potential anti-Trump video intended to be used to in their attempts to pander to Hispanic voters or as she described, for “taco bowl engagement.”
Regarding race, revisionist historians would like you to conveniently forget that the Democrats are the party of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, Jim Crow Laws as well as the 57-day filibuster against the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Leading the Democrats in their opposition to civil rights for African-Americans was Senator Robert Byrd, D-W.Va. Byrd, who got into politics as a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan and served as “Exalted Cyclops,” spoke against the bill for fourteen straight hours. Democrats have called Robert Byrd “the conscience of the Senate while Democratic Presidential Nominee Hillary Clinton has praised him as a “friend and mentor.”
Alicia Machado has become something of a surrogate for the Clinton campaign. On one episode of Venezuelan reality TV show “La Granja VIP” or The VIP Farm in English, Machado and costar and TV host Fernando Acaso were caught having sex on camera. This occurred while Machado was engaged to New York Yankees outfielder Bobby Abreu. She was also accused of threatening to ruin the career of and kill Judge Maximiliano Fuenmayor after he indicted her then boyfriend, Juan Rafael Rodriguez Regetti for shooting and wounding his sister's husband.
The Democrats were dealt a severe blow in 2014. The GOP took historic gains in the House of Representatives while assuming the majority in the Senate. They now have perhaps, the most flawed and vulnerable major party candidate ever in the form of Secretary Clinton. Her scandals over the years and the information that continues to come out in real time necessitate distractions. Alicia Machado may have temporarily provided that for her party and candidate. A party which she perfectly symbolizes with her lawlessness and immorality.
Julio Rivera is an entrepreneur, small business consultant and political activist. He contributes to RightWingNews.com and NewsNinja2012.com, and had previously covered boxing and baseball for the now defunct "The Urban News" in his native Paterson, N.J. For more of his reports, Go Here Now.
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