|  In other words, Scott Beason* is officially challenging Spencer Bachus for the right to carry the GOP banner in Alabama's 6th congressional district. This is the internal division within the Republican party, distilled down to its purest form: white supremacists vs. corporate shills.
Scott Beason is like some kind of retro poster child for the GOP's Southern Strategy to bring white supremacists into the party. He told Republicans they have to "empty the clip" against illegal immigrants, sponsored and still champions Alabama's cruelest in the nation immigration law, called the African-Americans frequenting an Alabama casino "aborigines" -- while recording the conversation for the FBI! -- and is almost certainly the only congressional candidate in the nation to have been found by a federal judge to have "ulterior motives rooted in naked political ambition and pure racial bias" and "purposeful, racist intent." Scott Beason is a perfect standard bearer for the white supremacist wing of the Republican Party. Incumbent Spencer Bachus is just as purely a creature of the corporate wing of the GOP. He chairs the House Financial Services Committee and took a whopping three quarters of a million dollars in contributions from the financial/investment/real estate sector in the last election cycle. His stated view is that "Washington and the regulators are there to serve the banks," he was quick to say the Legislature needs to revisit Beason's ill-considered immigration law, criticized the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's role in negotiations to clean up the big banks' foreclosure mess, opposed Wall Street reform, has had phenomenal luck in the stock market since going to Congress, and even criticized Sarah Palin and other tea party candidates. In other words, Spencer Bachus is the quintessential bankster. This will be a battle between the nutty social conservative GOPers and the money folks in the Republican party. The wedge is perfectly placed to split Republicans right down the middle. Look for at least one, and possibly even two, Democratic contenders positioning themselves to capitalize on this GOP civil war. *Of course, God called Scott Beason to run for Congress. He should check with Herman Cain Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry .... because that God, he's playing a lot of jokes on Republicans this year, calling them to run and then telling voters to cast a ballot for somebody else. |
