Allen says “macaca” and Republicans reject him. Hillary says of Gandhi “He ran a gas station down in St. Louis.” She gets a pass and all Republicans get smeared as racists. The link

They didn’t reject him. Republicans campaigned hard for him in ’06, and he introduced McCain at the CPAC conference today. Do you get tired of raising strawmen?

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Pay attention everyone. Contrary to popular belief, this is what is known as “begging the question.” Next time someone asks you what that phrase means, feel free to point to mark‘s quotation.

“Sure, we might be racists now, but look at them, they were racists a 100 years ago even if they aren’t today.”

How else can one explain blacks voting for a party which destroyed the black family with its welfare programs?

Today from LaShawn Barber (regarding racists in the Republican Party): Digging Up Democratic Skeletons

Democrats, seen as the civil rights party, supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the “Black Codes,” and created the Jim Crow system. The Republican Party, in contrast, was founded in opposition to slavery, and supported post-Civil War and Civil Rights Movement-era legislation. “All of the racism that we associate with [the southern] region of the country originated with and was enforced by elected Democrats,” writes Bruce Bartlett, a former domestic policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official under President George H.W. Bush. In Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, Bartlett goes deep into the history of the Democratic Party and attempts to set the record straight.

This is so silly. Parties undergo re-alignment all the time. The Democratic Party, especially in the South, was historically the conservative party. The actual party label is immaterial. The gains of the civil rights movement are credited to, among many, many others, progressive-minded people in both the Democratic and Republican Party. Oh, and many of those southern Democrats are now Republicans.

Digging Up Democratic Skeletons

Democrats, seen as the civil rights party, supported slavery, opposed civil rights legislation, instituted the “Black Codes,” and created the Jim Crow system. The Republican Party, in contrast, was founded in opposition to slavery, and supported post-Civil War and Civil Rights Movement-era legislation. “All of the racism that we associate with [the southern] region of the country originated with and was enforced by elected Democrats,” writes Bruce Bartlett, a former domestic policy advisor to President Ronald Reagan and a Treasury official under President George H.W. Bush. In Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past, Bartlett goes deep into the history of the Democratic Party and attempts to set the record straight.