> In the real world, virtually no white Bahamian ever votes for the PLP
A Bahamian who knows ZERO about elections in his country! Do you know how many of those same white Bahamians Scott spoke of, directed their millions to parties other than the FNM, ensuring their party's defeat? See this is the problem with Scott trying this angle - he may not like the truths that come out as a result. FNMs have no idea which prominent FNMs funded the DNA and the PLP. If they did, they would probably die of shock, and yes, they were white Bahamians or Bahamians passing for white. So before Scott tries to put any demographic on a platform, make sure the platform is built on a firm foundation, as some of the most prominent white FNMs have a huge part to play in the PLP being the government of the day.
All Scott is doing, is creating potentials for certain other political arguments to be made by the very camp he opposes. Scott is not helping his camp, he is hurting it and he does not seem to be able to see that.
> Sooooooooo, who are white (FNM) Bahamians supporting????????
Scott, the spokesman for white Bahamians, should tell us this very thing. Minnis is an absolute moron and neurotic, but Scott should tell us who white Bahamians want in his place since as I'm told, the demographic is so critical to the FNM's victory. Tell the nation who we want, so the nation can make haste to oblige.
I put no words in your mouth, I asked you a series of questions. You are entirely too paranoid and defensive for these types of discussions.
Meantime, you said if Minnis remains, whites wont support which means the FNM will lose. What you are saying is the vast minority is controlling the outcome for the vast majority.
> The FNM cannot win if it doesn't unite behind a candidate. Without the white Bahamian vote and the financial support that entails, the FNM will lose, again, and that is just reality, take it or leave it.
Okay. Now what does that reality truly mean for this country - that the vast minority of the citizenry controls what will happen to the vast majority? Since this is the reality, Tennyson Wells (as repugnant as he is) was right in his commentary on this very issue. What do you want the vast majority to do then, to genuflect to this reality? You keep saying you hate the PLP and that white Bahamians (as if black Bahamians differ) do not support Minnis. Fine. I wont argue that. Now I am asking you as a Bahamian, what you want Bahamians to do about what white Bahamians want, and why should there even be a consideration about what any racial grouping wants or does not want in a political candidate? Why do we need to "do something about" what white Bahamians want over any other racial group? All of our desires are critical, regardless of our color. And are we to believe that the white Bahamians Scott speaks of are actually concerned about nationbuilding? No, they, like black millionaire businessmen, care about their ends and which party will help them accomplish them.
You are more ignorant than not in your retorts, and seemingly incapable of processing information. Readers here meantime are fully capable of seeing what you truly believe, notwithstanding what you claim to stand for.
Ah mi dios! My disagreement is in bringing race into this issue at all and separating out and differentiating Bahamians based on race. Bahamians of all colors do not support the man. There is no need for us to single out any race as though that race holds a view other races do not.
> All this talk about the Chinese you all Papa brought them here in the first place.
I never agree with anything you say Birdie, but on this point you are absolutely correct. The Baha Mar fiasco may never have happened had these Chinese crooks not been brought into the deal in the first place. That is not on Christie, that is on the FNM. All they needed was to be given the type of agreement they got, and that was the foothold they needed to do what they ultimately did. They sweetened us with free things and what turned out to be bugged electronic equipment for our government officials and offices just as they did other Caribbean countries - and we bought it wholesale, acting as if China was our new best friend.
Publius says...
> In the real world, virtually no white Bahamian ever votes for the PLP
A Bahamian who knows ZERO about elections in his country! Do you know how many of those same white Bahamians Scott spoke of, directed their millions to parties other than the FNM, ensuring their party's defeat? See this is the problem with Scott trying this angle - he may not like the truths that come out as a result. FNMs have no idea which prominent FNMs funded the DNA and the PLP. If they did, they would probably die of shock, and yes, they were white Bahamians or Bahamians passing for white. So before Scott tries to put any demographic on a platform, make sure the platform is built on a firm foundation, as some of the most prominent white FNMs have a huge part to play in the PLP being the government of the day.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:19 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
At this point, the FNM will snatch that defeat even if Minnis is not the leader if you really know what is going on with and in the FNM.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:12 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
All Scott is doing, is creating potentials for certain other political arguments to be made by the very camp he opposes. Scott is not helping his camp, he is hurting it and he does not seem to be able to see that.
> Sooooooooo, who are white (FNM) Bahamians supporting????????
Scott, the spokesman for white Bahamians, should tell us this very thing. Minnis is an absolute moron and neurotic, but Scott should tell us who white Bahamians want in his place since as I'm told, the demographic is so critical to the FNM's victory. Tell the nation who we want, so the nation can make haste to oblige.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:11 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
> The majority would still have to vote for that leader
Since you know this, why are you repeatedly saying the PLP will win without whites supporting the FNM! You are incorrigible!
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:07 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
And who is to say white Bahamians will support the new leader picked? Shall we ask Scott, spokesman for white Bahamians?
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:06 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
I put no words in your mouth, I asked you a series of questions. You are entirely too paranoid and defensive for these types of discussions.
Meantime, you said if Minnis remains, whites wont support which means the FNM will lose. What you are saying is the vast minority is controlling the outcome for the vast majority.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 4:02 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
> The FNM cannot win if it doesn't unite behind a candidate. Without the white Bahamian vote and the financial support that entails, the FNM will lose, again, and that is just reality, take it or leave it.
Okay. Now what does that reality truly mean for this country - that the vast minority of the citizenry controls what will happen to the vast majority? Since this is the reality, Tennyson Wells (as repugnant as he is) was right in his commentary on this very issue. What do you want the vast majority to do then, to genuflect to this reality? You keep saying you hate the PLP and that white Bahamians (as if black Bahamians differ) do not support Minnis. Fine. I wont argue that. Now I am asking you as a Bahamian, what you want Bahamians to do about what white Bahamians want, and why should there even be a consideration about what any racial grouping wants or does not want in a political candidate? Why do we need to "do something about" what white Bahamians want over any other racial group? All of our desires are critical, regardless of our color. And are we to believe that the white Bahamians Scott speaks of are actually concerned about nationbuilding? No, they, like black millionaire businessmen, care about their ends and which party will help them accomplish them.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 3:56 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
You are more ignorant than not in your retorts, and seemingly incapable of processing information. Readers here meantime are fully capable of seeing what you truly believe, notwithstanding what you claim to stand for.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 3:23 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
Ah mi dios! My disagreement is in bringing race into this issue at all and separating out and differentiating Bahamians based on race. Bahamians of all colors do not support the man. There is no need for us to single out any race as though that race holds a view other races do not.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 3:10 p.m. Suggest removal
Publius says...
> All this talk about the Chinese you all Papa brought them here in the first place.
I never agree with anything you say Birdie, but on this point you are absolutely correct. The Baha Mar fiasco may never have happened had these Chinese crooks not been brought into the deal in the first place. That is not on Christie, that is on the FNM. All they needed was to be given the type of agreement they got, and that was the foothold they needed to do what they ultimately did. They sweetened us with free things and what turned out to be bugged electronic equipment for our government officials and offices just as they did other Caribbean countries - and we bought it wholesale, acting as if China was our new best friend.
On Minnis ‘lacks support of white Bahamians’
Posted 24 February 2016, 3:08 p.m. Suggest removal