House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.)

[Wrong Element]

He joined the KKK in 1967 and was a Dem candidate in LA in 1988. Because he was beaten so badly, he joined the GOP that same year and did get elected for one term to the state legislature. He basically left partisan politics in the 1990's.

How interesting that, given your continuing insistence that the Democrats are the party with all the racists, a career racist like Duke found it easier to get elected once he self-identified as being in the other party.

 

[Boxlicker101]

And all those white racists from the south lost their racism when they switched parties due, in part, to LBJ's championing the Civil Rights Act of 1964?

(Yes, Ish, I know the importance of Northern Republicans to its passage.)

Some of them did. Some of them remained Democrats. Some of them started a new party with George Wallace at its head and some were dead by then.

One example: Lester Maddux was elected gov. of GA in 1966 and Lieutenant Governor in 1970, running as a Dem. in both elections.

 

[Boxlicker101]

How interesting that, given your continuing insistence that the Democrats are the party with all the racists, a career racist like Duke found it easier to get elected once he self-identified as being in the other party.

I didn't use the present tense; I used the past tense. I doubt that any outspoken racist, regardless of party, could get elected to any major office now, which is a good thing.

 

[badbabysitter]

Some of them did. Some of them remained Democrats. Some of them started a new party with George Wallace at its head and some were dead by then.

One example: Lester Maddux was elected gov. of GA in 1966 and Lieutenant Governor in 1970, running as a Dem. in both elections.

One of those Democrats that left the party over the Civil Rights Act later became President

you might remember him.. his name was Ronald Reagen

 

[badbabysitter]

Strom Thurmond was also one of those Democrats that left over civil rights

 

[Boxlicker101]

One of those Democrats that left the party over the Civil Rights Act later became President

you might remember him.. his name was Ronald Reagen

Reagan left the Dem party in 1962. By 1964, he was already being touted as the GOP candidate for gov. of CA, which office he won in 1966. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

 

[cjh]

Reagan left the Dem party in 1962. By 1964, he was already being touted as the GOP candidate for gov. of CA, which office he won in 1966. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Reagan

And Strom Thirmond left even earlier to found the States' Rights Democratic Party.

What was that all about?

 

[Disgustipated]

And Strom Thirmond left even earlier to found the States' Rights Democratic Party.

What was that all about?

Reagan enjoyed the benefits of the commie left community.

 

[Boxlicker101]

And Strom Thirmond left even earlier to found the States' Rights Democratic Party.

What was that all about?

I was successfully refuting a statement by BBS. BTW, who was Strom Thirmond? Do you mean Strom Thurmond?

 

[KingOrfeo]

More dirt on Scalise.

 

[Boxlicker101]

More dirt on Scalise.

Why do you continually cite the opinions expressed on a site as biased as "Salon"
and act as if they were facts.

I have never been asked but, if I were, I would not apologize for something some of my ancestors might or might not have done over a century ago, although I would express regrets, in general, for the institution of slavery. Especially, I would not apologize to people who were never affected by whatever might or might not have been done by my ancestors.

I wonder if Queen Elizabeth II will ever apologize to me and to millions of other white Americans for the feudal system, which kept our remote ancestors in involuntary servitude for so long.

 

[Busybody]

Why do you continually cite the opinions expressed on a site as biased as "Salon"
and act as if they were facts.

I have never been asked but, if I were, I would not apologize for something some of my ancestors might or might not have done over a century ago, although I would express regrets, in general, for the institution of slavery. Especially, I would not apologize to people who were never affected by whatever might or might not have been done by my ancestors.

I wonder if Queen Elizabeth II will ever apologize to me and to millions of other white Americans for the feudal system, which kept our remote ancestors in involuntary servitude for so long.

stop being right

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

The GOP has a racially charged elephant in the room..

Dave Agema, Michigan’s RNC Committeeman, has a well-documented history of making inflammatory statements…. In a recent Facebook post, Agema re-published an essay from American Renaissance, a white-supremacist newsletter. The article, which Agema said he found “very enlightening,” argued that “blacks are different by almost any measure to all other people. They cannot reason as well. They cannot communicate as well. They cannot control their impulses as well. They are a threat to all who cross their paths, black and non-black alike.”

Yes, just two weeks after the public learned that a House Republican leader spoke at a white-supremacist gathering, the new story is about an RNC member who expressed support for a piece from a white-supremacist newsletter.

Some of the RNC member’s most notorious comments: Agema accused President Obama of being a practicing Muslim who secretly sired a bastard; he’s insisted Muslims have never made positive contributions to the fabric of American life and society; he’s endorsed Vladimir Putin’s most autocratic policies; and he’s said gays and lesbians are responsible for the majority of murders in the United States.

And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Why do you continually cite the opinions expressed on a site as biased as "Salon"
and act as if they were facts.

As your "conservative" cohorts would say, "Why don't you refute the facts rather than just dismiss the source because you disagree with them?"

Even though it's a given that FauxNews wouldn't know the truth if it smacked them in their collective talking heads, it's still rather easy to disprove the vast majority of their wing-nut notions after pointing out their very obvious shortcomings in verity.

So, feel free to point out the shortcomings in the linked Salon story, if you can.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Why do you continually cite the opinions expressed on a site as biased as "Salon"
and act as if they were facts.

Because they generally turn out to be facts. Unlike the stories RWs here often link from the New York Post, Washington Times, Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, American Thinker or the Daily Caller.

 

[KingOrfeo]

David Duke: "I was never a white supremacist."

 

[Busybody]

Bill Ayers to Iran Media: USA a Terrorist Nation http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/...ll-Ayers-to-Iran-Media-U-S-A-Terrorist-Nation … … … Bill Ayers = #Obama's Mentor....... Think About That.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Because they generally turn out to be facts. Unlike the stories RWs here often link from the New York Post, Washington Times, Fox, Breitbart, Newsmax, American Thinker or the Daily Caller.

Ishmael has dialed up the derp a step farther lately, he's taken to quoting the Gladstone Institute, whose founder is on record as saying "accuracy is a luxury we cannot afford when talking about the Middle East".

#DerpWithoutEndAmen

 

[Busybody]

Ishmael has dialed up the derp a step farther lately, he's taken to quoting the Gladstone Institute, whose founder is on record as saying "accuracy is a luxury we cannot afford when talking about the Middle East".

#DerpWithoutEndAmen

link to the Gadstone quote?