I wonder, is Mo Brooks the political version of a time bomb? Did someone wire him up long ago to just completely explode at the worst possible time for his party, a mere three months before the midterms? I only ask, because a week ago, most of us would never have even heard of the second-term GOP backbencher from Alabama. Yet we know him now. Oh, how we know him now. And if you didn't hear him already, he was happy to say it again.
Now, you'd think that someone in the GOP might have found it opportune to tell Brooks to STFU and not cause any more potential collateral damage with his big yap. Because he sure as hell isn't going to. And Brooks isn't just accusing the Democrats of being racist. Now he's targeting his own party:
Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) said during a radio interview on Wednesday that his party's efforts to court Hispanic voters amount to "race-baiting."
Come again? What brought
that on? Well, oddly enough, it was our old favorite media punching bag,
Ron Fournier:
Fournier appeared with Brooks on Dale Jackson's radio show Wednesday and read the GOP congressman a passage about targeting Hispanic voters, which came from the Republican National Committee's Growth and Opportunity Book 2013.
"If Hispanic Americans hear that the GOP doesn't want them in the United States, they won't pay attention to our next sentence. It doesn't matter what we say about education, jobs or the economy; if Hispanics think that we do not want them here, they will close their ears to our policies," Fournier quoted from the report.
The report also suggests that the GOP should target "Asian and Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Indian Americans, Native Americans, women, and youth."
So all Fournier did was read passages from the GOP's so-called "autopsy" report that had the blatant message; "either we attract folks other than aging white guys or we are fucked." (A message that the party has
completely ignored.) And like his fellow House GOPers, Brooks would have none of that "being nice to other races" nonsense!
Brooks -- who seemed momentarily confused that the passage was from a GOP document -- said Americans shouldn't be divided by race, as such a strategy would be "race-baiting."
"I don't care that you made the statement or somebody else made the statement that triggered my remarks, but that statement, that argument, is playing hand in glove with the Democratic race-baiting strategy, and it has to come to a stop," he said.
And he wasn't done yet. No, it's pretty clear this clown doesn't ever know when to stop.
Later in the interview, Brooks said that Republicans were not guilty of dividing the country because they had not made any attempt to appeal to Hispanic voters based on race.
"I don't know that the Republican Party has ever appealed to Hispanic Americans based on race," Brooks said. "Name a candidate, in the United States of America, who appeals to Hispanics based on their skin color."
Fournier responded, "It's hard to name one who's not," citing former President George W. Bush as a GOP candidate who appealed directly to Hispanic voters.
Come on, Mo! You're making
Ron Fournier look smart! Quit while you're ahead!
Apparently, someone in the GOP has gotten the notion that maybe there should be some pushback against Mo, as Reince Priebus is finally criticizing him for it. (Warning, this links to Briebart.) However, the damage is already done. And since Brooks has seemed unable or unwilling to muzzle himself, it'll take more than some stern chiding from the World's Worst Scrabble Hand to make him stop.
Oh and need I remind you that before this whole "war on whites" thing started, Brooks said last week that he wants all DREAMers and all undocumented immigrants kicked out?
Again, Reince, how's the rebranding going?