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Several times in this blog the racist past of the Democrat
Party has been documented, most fully here. Through their control, the
willingness of the Jurassic Press, and the indoctrination system mistakenly
identified as our "education" system, most believe it's Republicans
and Conservatives that are the racists.
In the last election cycle, and continuing even a year and
more later, the "war on women" continue to be a Democrat Party,
Jurassic Press, "education" mantra attributing it to Republicans and
Conservatives.
The actual history of this "war on women", like racism,
is all Democrats, and can most notably be traced back to the late 1800's, like
the racist pro-slavery Civil War fomented by the racist Democrats. The current propaganda is because Republicans,
Conservatives, Christians, don't think the general taxpaying public should be
forced to pay for abortion on demand and any time during a pregnancy, including
partial birth abortion, and the same should pay for contraception, then that
constitutes a war on women and misogyny.
Just like the slavery laws, KKK laws, lynching laws, Jim
Crow laws, racist anti-black civil rights laws and voting laws, the laws
against women's rights are Democrat Party supported and enforced laws.
Republican A.A. Sargent of California introduced 19th amendment in 1878,
to give women the right to vote. Shot down by the Democrat controlled Congress.
Utah by the
way, passed legislation in 1870 allowing women to vote. The Democrat Congress
overturned that legislation by passing the Edmunds-Tucker Act of 1882,
oppressing the right of women to vote. That legislation did some other illegal
things as well, but not the topic here.
The Republicans continued to bring up the right of women to
vote every year since Sargent introduced it, and it was denied, tied up in committee,
until 1874 when Democrats finally allowed a floor vote, and it did not pass 34-16.
Women and Republicans decided to go the states rights route, and Republican
controlled states, Wyoming, Colorado,
Idaho, and beginning the 20th century Washington and California
followed suit.
The midterm elections of 1918 saw Republicans swept into
federal office, and the Democrats lost the majority. Republican Rep. James R.
Mann brought the 19th Amendment back up, and lo and behold, with the
Republicans in the majority, it passed! It had to be ratified, and 26 of 36
states did, all of them with Republican legislatures. Twelve Republican states
had given women the right to vote before it became federal law.
There you have it, the long sordid history of the Democrats
war on women. It continues, but you won't hear about it in the Jurassic Press and the Democrat Party covers it up by blaming someone else with their lies.
Democrats, a couple weeks after The Election, are still
gloating, often doing it with an over abundance of mockery. Poor form, but to
be expected from such an uncivil and morally bankrupt group. I've written my
view of what happened that day was a tipping point past which the majority of Americans
have decided to reject traditional political\economic values that built the
most free nation in history, opt for Statism, and reject traditional social and
religious values that provided the foundation of healthy and stable relationships.
I can't give up to the notion all is lost. There are political and social realties in play that may move things back in balance; balanced budgets and balanced social relationships.
A political reality is though Democrats, Leftists, Statists,
Socialists, Communists, Fascists have won the Executive and Senate, the failed
status quo remains at the Federal level. In 2010, not only was a large Republican and Conservative majority
of the House elected by historic margins, but there was a huge increase of governorships
and legislatures gained by them. That build up continued in the last election,
and won't be reported in the sycophantic Obama Press.
In 2010 Republicans and Conservatives gained about 700 state
legislative seats, the result being 61 legislative chambers are controlled by
them. Twenty five states (after swearing in next year) are controlled by Republicans, thirteen by Democrats,
the rest a mix, leaning mostly Republican. Voters kept to that trend of
Democrats control federally, with local control to Republicans. The Democrats,
while desiring and working on it, have yet to overturn the Constitution and
deny State's rights, so their Federally mandated, debt ridden, unfunded
programs can still be blocked. There are governors and legislators that have
the political courage lacking in many of the federal level RINO's to do so.
In the next two elections there will be more noticeable evidence of success
or failure, so the choice will be crystal clear. The late great state of
California is a one Party state, controlled wholly by Democrats with no
Republicans to be found, is $billions in debt and borrowing more, businesses
and people are fleeing the state, decreasing the tax base. California
is now the poorest state in the Union, traditionally
a spot held by a Southern state. Less than a third of the legislature is
Republican, two thirds are needed to raise taxes without a vote of the
citizens, so from now on they can increase taxes whenever they want. States
like Texas
have exercised low tax rates, are pro business, so people and businesses are
moving there. I've noticed though, that people moving from failed Democrat
states like California and Michigan, vote in, once they've moved, for
Democrats and the policies that caused their states of origin to fail. An
amazing thing. That trend may be changing, looking at the increase of states
being moved into the Republican column. (In my state of Nevada, the influx of Californians has
changed the state from Republican to Democrat. We have the worst unemployment
and foreclosure rate in the nation. Mostly Republicans won state and local
offices.)
Regarding social traditions and values, the Democrats
advocacy of State funded abortion and infanticide on demand, their attack on
the traditional family, an education system with an increasing dropout rate and
stupid students, the increase of out of wedlock babies being born, the growth of
unmarried women left to raise children (a result of anti family attitudes), the
rejection of the Church where family values are taught and practiced across
race and generational lines, is increasingly showing the results of social
decay that can't be missed. What Democrats leave are people disconnected from
each other and their communities. Empty hearts and empty communities; just
people with the mindset the State will take care of it, whatever "it"
is.
When this country most thrived, church attendance was high, community
and neighborliness was high, taxes were low, marriage was high, abortion was
low, birthrate was high within marriage, out of wedlock birthrates were
low, school dropout rates were low.
Republicans and Conservatives at the State level must keep
doing, like Scott Walker in Wisconsin and John
Kasich in Ohio, lowering tax rates, balancing budgets
and increasing employment. Citizens are beginning to notice.
What Pastors must do, is preach the need for and the
sanctity of marriage between one man and one woman, against abortion, and the
need for the nuclear family to raise well adjusted, well educated children.
These are not political issues as Secularists would have everyone believe, but
moral issues. Secularists push the idea these are political issues to keep
Pastors talking about them out of fear of losing their tax exempt status.
That's a ploy to circumvent freedom of religion. The State has no power to do
so.
These are two things Conservatives, Republicans and Christians must recognize and support. Elect locally and advance the causes of religion and social traditions.
Yesterday I saw Spielberg's "Lincoln" which made the passage of the
13th Amendment about as interesting as possible. The acting was brilliant. Reviewers and responders on blogs got all
caught up in the portrayal of Lincoln
and the tenor voice, and with historical minutiae. It's not a documentary; good
grief. Of course there are going to be artistic liberties taken. Surprisingly, Spielberg,
screenwriter Tony Kushner, and Daniel Day Lewis, all Statist, Leftist Radicals,
didn't rewrite history and avoided the standard attacks on Republicans.
Actually it was a pretty good sketch of the events getting the anti-slavery
amendment passed, and correctly portrayed the Democrats as the pro-slavery
Party.
The meme is that it's the Republican Party that's racist and
segregationist. The opposite has always been
the case. Spielberg has been saying in interviews that Dems and Republicans
"have traded political places over the last 150 years". A blatant lie.
The Dems were the ones that fought against civil rights
legislation in the mid twentieth century, were the supporters and members of
the KKK and all the rest of the horrible treatment of Blacks in this country. It's
the Democrats that have impoverished and enslaved Blacks in the Urban
Plantation in the twentieth century, and continue to do so. Black unemployment
is in the high teens, and going up under a Black Democrat president.
Here is the history of the Racist Democrat Party vs the
Republican Party. By the way, most Blacks were members of the Republican Party
from the end of the Civil War into the early 20th century. Then the Dems did
then, what they do now, offered a lot of free stuff. No such thing as free
stuff, but people vote for their own oppression on the promise of free stuff.
The Democrats:
Democrats fought to expand slavery while Republicans fought to end it.
Democrats passed those discriminatory Black Codes and Jim Crow laws.
Democrats supported and passed the Missouri Compromise to protect slavery and
the Kansas Nebraska Act to expand slavery.
Democrats supported and backed the Dred Scott Decision.
Democrats opposed educating blacks and murdered our teachers.
Democrats fought against anti-lynching laws.
Democrat Senator Robert Byrd of West
Virginia, is well known for having been a “Kleagle”
in the Ku Klux Klan. Byrd filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 for 14
straight hours to keep it from passage.
Democrats passed the Repeal Act of 1894 that overturned civil right laws
enacted by Republicans.
Democrats declared that they would rather vote for a “yellow dog” than vote for
a Republican, because the Republican Party was known as the party for blacks.
Democrat President Woodrow Wilson, reintroduced segregation throughout the
federal government immediately upon taking office in 1913.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first appointment to the Supreme
Court was a life member of the Ku Klux Klan, Sen. Hugo Black, Democrat of
Alabama.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s choice for vice president in 1944
was Harry Truman, who had joined the Ku Klux Klan in Kansas City in 1922.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt resisted Republican efforts to pass a
federal law against lynching.
Democrat President Franklin D. Roosevelt opposed integration of the armed
forces.
Democrat Senators Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr. and Robert Byrd were the chief
opponents of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Democrats supported and backed Judge John Ferguson in the case of Plessy v Ferguson.
Democrats supported the School Board of Topeka Kansas in the case of Brown v
The Board of Education of Topeka Kansas.
Democrat public safety commissioner Eugene “Bull” Connor, in Birmingham, Ala.,
unleashed vicious dogs and turned fire hoses on black civil rights
demonstrators.
Democrats were who Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the other protesters were
fighting.
Democrat Georgia Governor Lester Maddox “brandished an ax hammer to prevent
blacks from patronizing his restaurant.
Democrat Governor George Wallace stood in front of the Alabama schoolhouse in 1963, declaring there
would be segregation forever.
Democrat Arkansas Governor Faubus tried to prevent desegregation of Little Rock public
schools.
Democrat Senator John F. Kennedy voted against the 1957 Civil rights Act.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. King.
Democrat President John F. Kennedy, had Dr. King wiretapped and investigated by
the FBI.
Democrat President Bill Clinton’s mentor was U.S. Senator J. William Fulbright,
an Arkansas Democrat and a supporter of racial segregation.
Democrat President Bill Clinton interned for J. William Fulbright in 1966-67.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright signed the Southern Manifesto opposing
the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright joined with the Dixiecrats in
filibustering the Civil Rights Acts of 1957 and 1964.
Democrat Senator J. William Fulbright voted against the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Southern Democrats opposed desegregation and integration.
Democrats opposed:
1.The Emancipation Proclamation
2.The 13th Amendment
3.The 14th Amendment
4.The 15th Amendment
5.The Reconstruction Act of 1867
6.The Civil Rights of 1866
7.The Enforcement Act of 1870
8.The Forced Act of 1871
9.The Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871
10.The Civil Rights Act of 1875
11.The Freeman Bureau
12.The Civil Rights Act of 1957
13.The Civil Rights Act of 1960
14.The United State Civil Rights Commission
Republicans gave strong bi-partisan support and sponsorship for the following
legislation:
1.The Civil Rights Act of 1964
2.The Voting Rights Act of 1965
3.The 1968 Civil Rights Acts
4.The Equal Opportunity Act of 1972
5.Goals and Timetables for Affirmative Action Programs
6.Comprehensive Employment Training Act of 1973
7.Voting Rights Act of Amendment of 1982
8.Civil Rights Act of 1983
9.Federal Contract Compliance and Workforce Development Act of 1988
The Republicans:
Republicans enacted civil rights laws in the 1950’s and 1960’s, over the
objection of Democrats.
Republicans founded the HBCU’s (HistoricalBlackCollege’s
and Universities) and started the NAACP to counter the racist practices of the
Democrats.
Republicans pushed through much of the ground-breaking civil rights legislation
in Congress.
Republicans fought slavery and amended the Constitution to grant blacks
freedom, citizenship and the right to vote.
Republicans pushed through much of the groundbreaking civil rights legislation
from the 1860s through the 1960s.
Republican President Dwight Eisenhower sent troops into the South to
desegregate the schools.
Republican President Eisenhower appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the
Supreme Court, which resulted in the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois,
not Democrat President Lyndon Johnson, was the one who pushed through the civil
rights laws of the 1960’s.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois
wrote the language for the 1965 Voting Rights Act.
Republican Senator Everett Dirksen from Illinois
also crafted the language for the Civil Rights Act of 1968 which prohibited
discrimination in housing.
Republican and black American, A. Phillip Randolph, organized the 1963 March by
Dr. King on Washington.
The 1964 Civil Rights Act Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64 percent of the
Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80 percent of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no),
voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68 percent of the Democrats endorsed
the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82 percent of the Republicans voted to enact it (27
yes, 6 no).
Thaddeus Stevens, a Radical Republican that introduced legislation to give
African Americans the so-called 40 acres and a mule and Democrats
overwhelmingly voted against the bill.
During the Senate debates on the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, it was revealed that
members of the Democratic Party formed many terrorist organizations like the Ku
Klux Klan to murder and intimidate African Americans voters. The Ku Klux Klan
Act was a bill introduced by a Republican Congress to stop Klan Activities.
History reveals that Democrats lynched, burned, mutilated and murdered
thousands of blacks and completely destroyed entire towns and communities
occupied by middle class Blacks, including Rosewood, Florida, the Greenwood
District in Tulsa Oklahoma, and Wilmington, North Carolina to name a few.
History reveals that it was Abolitionists and Radical Republicans such as Henry
L. Morehouse and General Oliver Howard that started many of the traditional
Black colleges, while Democrats fought to keep them closed. Many of our
traditional Black colleges are named after white Republicans.
After exclusively giving the Democrats their votes for the past 25 years, the
average African American cannot point to one piece of civil rights legislation
sponsored solely by the Democratic Party that was specifically designed to
eradicate the unique problems that African Americans face today.
As of 2004, the Democrat Party (the oldest political party in America) had
never elected a black man to the United States Senate, while the Republicans
had elected three.
I want to talk to you tonight not about politics and not
about party.
And while there are many important issues we'll hear discussed in this
convention and throughout this campaign, tonight I want to talk to you from my
heart about our hearts.
I want to talk not about what divides us, but what holds us together as an
American family. I want to talk to you tonight about that one great thing that
unites us, that one thing that brings us our greatest joy when times are good,
and the deepest solace in our dark hours.
Tonight I want to talk to you about love.
..........
Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others
because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point. And
we're no different than the millions of Americans who quietly help their
neighbors, their churches and their communities. They don't do it so that
others will think more of them.
We’re coming to the annual budget battle in Congress, and
the Establishment Leftists/Democrats will once again start their propaganda campaign
of blaming the out of power Republicans for not providing a budget, or
obstructing getting a budget passed, that they want to starve babies and old
people, want to have dirty water and air (yes they actually state these as
fact), create more homeless and deny medical care to everybody.
A budget is supposed to be completed by April 15, by law.
The Senate Dems have not passed a budget since 2009. Obama’s 2013 budget
proposal was rejected 414-0 by the House and 99-0 by the Senate. White House Spokesman, Jay “Bagdad
Bob” Carney, in the opening salvo of lies about the budget and fiscal
responsibility said, “It’s simply not acceptable to hold the American and
global economy hostage to one party’s political ideology. It’s the
responsibility of Congress to ensure that the United States of America pays its
bills, maintains its creditworthiness.”
Republicans have
offered four budget proposals, one of which passed the House and was rejected
by the Democrat controlled Senate. But of course it’s the Republican’s fault. The
failure of this administration and his political party to get the job done is
being fuzzed up by the Democrat controlled Reelect Obama Press. Here’s a list
of some other the failures by the Democrats and this Administration.
According to the
Census Bureau, since Obama took office, real median household income is down $4300.
30% of the
unemployed have been out of work for more than a year.
We are at nearly 40
months of unemployment at 8% plus. I remember Leftists screaming bloody murder
when it bumped up to 5% under Bush, now it’s the “new normal” that we have to
accept. That 8% doesn’t include people that have used up their benefits plus
others that are no longer looking for work or are underemployed. With those we’re
closer to 17% unemployed. I forget the exact breakdown, but of the past 11 or
12 months, the Administration has revised upward the unemployment stats from
the previous month; with barely a mention in the Reelect Obama Press. If a company fudged their numbers like that, the would be civil and criminal charges brought.
The number of
people on food stamps has increased 70% since 2007. Several Democrat "leaders" have said this is good for the economy. They've also said the unemployed spending their government checks helps the economy. Huh?
Home prices are the
lowest they’ve been since 2002, foreclosures have skyrocketed, and home
ownership has plummeted.
Just got your
degree? About 50% of college grads are unemployed or have taken a lesser job
than their degree would usually net them. Some of this has to be blamed on the
ex-students that majored in things that don’t apply to the real world; gender
studies, medieval lit, etc.
Gas was about $1.88 when Obama took office, now it’s up to about $3.89 a gallon. Note about myself,
it cost me about $45 to fill my 13gal tank last week (actually put in 11.something). Obama and his Energy Sec
Steven Chu have both said they want to drive energy costs up. I guess one could
call that a success, at least for them and the Democrats.
Remember Obama
during his campaign saying no new taxes would be raised on those making less
the $250,000 a year? Two years into Obamacare, most of the $500 billion in
taxes raised by the act have come from people making less than that. A small
item, but remember the tax on tanning salons? Lot’s
of little stuff like that is hidden in Obamacare, and there will be massive
increases in 2013 if it’s fully implemented. As the first female ex-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said during the debate of it's passing, "We have to pass it to see what's in it." Well, we are now.
As of last February
we had incurred the largest deficit in US history, about $30 billion.
National debt now approaching $16 trillion! This president has increased that
more during his administration more than all his predecessors combined. He’s added
more debt in 38 months than Bush did in 8 years.
For this election,
Obama, who rails constantly against the rich and especially Wall Street, has
taken more money from them than all the Republican candidates combined. Beyond
ironic, or something, that he rails against Romney and Republicans being in the
pocket of Wall Street. They financed about 20% of his 2008 campaign, and they’ve
already given more to him and the Democrat Party than to Romney and the
Republicans this election cycle.
All this failure,
and yet the Reelect Obama Press, Obama, and the Democrat Party will shamelessly
continue to blame Bush and the Republican Party for them all, and in the next
few weeks they'll threaten to shut down the government (again) because Republicans
(again) will baulk at raising the debt ceiling without passing a budget.
Citizens that are busy working and raising families and not paying
attention to all this, will think it is so.
This is a great explanation of the foundation of Republicans' socio-economic-political world view, based on greed, fascism, and racism. This shows just how evil Republicans are.
A Republican in the Executive Branch with the record laid out below would be driven out of office without hesitation. Bush 1 was driven out of office after one term, and overall didn’t do so bad a job. Bush 2 was excoriated in the media daily. He had, I think, 54 consecutive months of economic growth, and managed the beginning of World War IV; including ensuring no successful terrorist attacks on US soil. That was done with his opposition doing everything they could to assist the enemies of the United States...can’t listen to suspected terrorists conversing with people in the US, or follow their money, etc. Bush 2 blew it in the end by giving up on free markets and signing off on TARP and some other socialist stuff. Overall, pretty good job though. Clinton, overall, a pretty good job, though you can bet if a Republican was bangin’ the female staff in the oval office; he would have been booted out of office PDQ.
Now we have a Marxist ideologue, racist, anti-Christian, pro-Islamist buffoon as president. A guy raised by Communists, hung out in college with racists, Marxists, Stalinists, advocating the overthrow of democracy; our a constitutional republic. That’d be us, Americans. Throw in his blatant religious lie about his quarter century in the anti-American, pro-communist, anti-Christian (they were all about liberation theology, not the teachings and acceptance of Jesus Christ as personal savior) racist church of Jeremiah Wright. Obama said after a quarter century, hey, who knew? Truly?
That’s the set up. Here’s the numbers.
Obama gets elected with the unemployment rate 6.8%. It’s now 8.6%. About 950,000 people are no longer looking for work; they are not longer factored in. Add them in, and the unemployment rate is about 11.5%. About 25% of African American men are unemployed. How's that hope and change thing working?
Gas was $1.88 in 2009. It’s about $3.50 now and climbing. 102% increase.
Average electricity bills for households have increased about $300 per year since he’s been in office.
The Census Bureau reports about 146.4 million people are living at or below the poverty line. That’s 4 million more that when he took office.
Credit card debt is going up, especially among seasoned citizens who are having to supplement their incomes.
The average age of a car on the road now is 10 years. Over the past 20 years the average age was about 6.5 years.
Our national budget is about $3.8 trillion, but heck, lets round it up to $4 trillion. Our revenues are only about $2.1 trillion, and revenues will be going down, spending will be going up. Another $Trillion is being added to the debt ceiling this session of Congress.
Much talk lately of this being the “food stamp president”. The Media Outlet for the Democrat Party, aka NBC, CBS, NY Times, LA Times, ABC, Time Magazine, etc. are all saying there were more people on food stamps under Bush. It’s amazing such blatant lies are fabricated and reported as fact, but we’ve come to expect it. Journalism died with the election of Barak Hussein Obama. Right now about one in seven Americans are on food stamps, about 14 million more people that when he took office. Pointing this out to the Jurassic Press and Democrats means you’re a racist. Problem is the majority of people on food stamps are white. I guess one could say Obama and the Dems are racist, forcing white people to go on food stamps.
Racial tension has skyrocketed. Energy costs have skyrocketed. The national debt has skyrocketed. Personal debt has skyrocketed. Everything that benefits the citizens of this country has plummeted.
Remember too, most of the 20th Century, the Democrat Party held power in Congress. They can blame Republicans all they want, but most legislation passed in the last 100 years was passed by them. The first two years of this administration, Democrats controlled both houses of Congress. They are the establishment. They write the rules. They are the ones responsible for this mess. The Republican Party is stupid and weak. Cowards. Blaming them for this mess is like blaming the little kid for getting beaten up by the bully.
The guy is a looser, for the rest of us. For him and the Democrats, he’s a winner. They’ve gotten what they wanted. It’s like Nikita Khrushchev said, “We can't expect the American People to jump from Capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving them small doses of Socialism, until they awaken one day to find that they have Communism.” Obama and the Democrats are continuing this legacy.
There’s way more at stake with this election than jobs and debt.
Boenhner is moving toward a "balanced" budget amendment that does not cap federal spending to a percent of the GDP and lacks taxation limitations. RINO's and Dems love this idea.
Horrible and scary point here is leading the Republican Party is RINO Boenhner in the House, RINO O'Donnell in the Senate, and if Romney wins we'll have a trifecta of RINO's and things will remain the same. Obama and Dem lite...same results, slower pace.
The overwhelming Leftist propaganda of the Democrat Party and Jurassic Press astoundingly goes unchallenged by Conservatives and the Republican Party. The latter had best get it together and start a wall to wall truth campaign revealing, over and over, the violence and racism of Democrats. The unrelenting propaganda is the Left is peaceful, peace loving and tolerant. Actually they're the one's that are violent, racist and intolerant.
First the notion of Dems supporting the Civil Rights Bills of the 1960’s, that it was the Republicans who were against it and stopped it. Actually the Dems filibustered it in the Senate. Names:
- Hill and Sparkman of Alabama
- Fulbright and McClellan of Arkansas
- Holland and Smathers of Florida
- Russell and Talmadge of Georgia
- Ellender and Long of Louisiana
- Eastland and Stennis of Mississippi
- Ervin and Jordan of North Carolina
- Johnston and Thurmond of South Carolina
- Gore Sr. and Walters of Tennessee
- H. Byrd and Robertson of Virginia
- R. Byrd of West Virginia
Just look and them good ol’ Dem Southern Boys. 40% of the House Democrats voted against the Civil Rights Act, and 80% of Republicans voted for it. The Dems also filibustered a civil rights act in 1957 that was passed by Republicans and Republican President Eisenhower signed it.
The most powerful political leaders opposed to school integration were Orval Faubus, Democrat Governor of Arkansas, George Wallace, Democrat Governor of Alabama and Lester Maddox, Democrat Governor of Georgia. Faubus is the Democrat racist that used police to block a school to keep Black kids out. It was Republican President Eisenhower that forced Faubus’ hand and got the schools integrated.
Democrat Racist Hugo Black was appointed to the Supreme Court. His rise to judicial power was the result of defending Klansmen. Klansmen by the way beat up Republicans for not going along with their Racist terrorist ways. Dems understand terrorism from the inside, since the Klan was a Democrat terrorist group.
There was Senator Robert Byrd, D-WV, a Klan official. There was Senator Ernest Hollings, D-SC who was instrumental in the fight against integration.
It was the Republican Party that fought for and won the fight to free the slaves. In the 1920’s the Republican’s regularly had anti-lynching legislation opposed by Democrats.
Rhetorical question. How come when white Dems attack Black conservatives like Clarence Thomas, Thomas Sowell, Shelby Steele, or Ward Connerly they aren’t being attacked as racist?
On to violence, which Dems and the Jurassic Press keep reporting is the domain of Republicans, Conservatives, and TEA Party supporters.
The riots of the 1960’s, the Democratic Convention, the race riots. Think any of them were Republican or Conservatives?
Who is that takes to the streets and destroys $millions worth of property? Conservatives or Leftists? Former Sec of Defense Rumsfeld was doing a book signing in Boston a few days ago and was attacked. Group of people were calling him a war criminal, chanting, “Hey Rumsfeld you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide.” Can you guess if they were Conservatives or Leftists? Are you aware of any Conservatives attacking a Leftist at a book signing?
Groups of people regularly go to the homes of judges and politicians, protesting a decision, or to a politician that voted on something they didn’t like. Are these people Conservatives or Leftists? Aware of any Conservative groups going to the homes of Leftist judges or politicians and protesting?
There’s been a bunch of people on Wall Street this past week, recently visited by the fat communist filmmaker Michael Moore, that has made $millions being a capitalist. There have been some arrests; fighting with police ‘n stuff while claiming to be a peaceful protest. Just to make a point about the Jurassic Press here, a reporter for the Leftist NY Times and Politico (reportedly a freelance “journalist”), Natasha Lennard, got arrested too. She was protesting with this group against Wall Street and Capitalism while reporting on it. Wonder if there were Conservatives there? Communist and Racist and alleged professor of something, Cornell West, egged these protesters on calling for revolution. Not the kind brought about by voting either. Think any of those people are Conservatives or Republicans?
The occupation of the Wisconsin Capital building this past summer, which caused about $7 million in damages, was done by government employees because they were asked to pay a little more (still less than those of us in the private sector) for their own Healthcare and Retirement programs. Want to guess if the occupiers were Leftists or Conservatives?
Then in Seattle, 500 longshoremen stormed the docks beating up people and even taking hostages. An additional 1,000 longshoremen shut down other docks. The kerfuffle wasn’t because of an issue with management, but because another union was chosen to do the work on a new project. Think any of these guys are Republicans or Conservatives?
How about the violent rhetoric of our uber partisan president?
“They Bring a Knife…We Bring a Gun”
“Get in Their Faces!”
“I don’t want to quell anger. I think people are right to be angry! I’m angry!”
“Hit Back Twice As Hard”
“We talk to these folks… so I know whose ass to kick.”
…Republican victory would mean “hand to hand combat”
“It’s time to Fight for it.”
“Punish your enemies.”
“I’m itching for a fight.”
He’s talking about people that don’t want him raising taxes and increasing the debt. He's talking about people that won’t vote for him, that don’t support him. Ever hear a Republican president talk this way? Could you imagine that above the fold howling condemnation? This guy recently said of those opposing his demand for tax hikes, then “We’re gonna have problems”. Sounds like a threat to me. Could you imagine the howling of the Jurassic Press if a Republic president said he would punish those that oppose him?
I’ve chronicled, most especially since the Arizona shooting by an apolitical crazy man, all the violence of the Left, supported by the Democrat Party. Remember they immediately came out saying it was a result of violent Conservative, Republican and TEA Party rhetoric. It’ll get worse too. Dems are facing a political loss next year that will dwarf what happened this past November. There will be more of the kind of thing like Racist and Communist Maxine Waters telling TEA Party members and supporters to go to hell. There’ll be more of union thugs like Hoffa that thundered, “Let’s take these sons a bitches out”, referring to TEA Party members and supporters, Conservatives and Republicans. Rhetorical content has much to do with the speaker; so when a union thug says….
Got to agree with Breitbart's response to these thugs:
The Left is violent historically, The Bolshevik Revolution and how they stayed in power, and were supported by the American Left. The Maoist Revolution and how they stayed in power. The Nazi’s and how they stayed in power, and forget about even mentioning Nazi’s are “right wing”…they were a Socialist party. How Castro got and stayed in power. The American Left will get nosier and more violent, increasing all the way to the election. If the Whitehouse sees a Republican voted in expect the streets to erupt. There’s only half a dozen, if that, of Senate seats that need to be won for Republicans to control that chamber. The vitriolic rhetoric, hate speech and violence will get worse. It’ll be reported in the Jurassic Press that it’s the Republicans’ fault.
Republicans and Conservatives need to start now with a campaign, and repeat it ad nauseam, about the history of violence, bigotry, anti-Semitism, racism, hatred and intolerance of the Left, and how it’s being expressed in the here and now. It needs to be graphic with lots of pictures and Democrats saying racist and anti-Semitic things. They need to run ads over and over of the Democrat’s voting against Civil Rights and Integration. Unceasingly.
Remember when Palin made a statement about Paul Revere, saying he had warned the British about American forces waiting for them? The Jurassic Press went nuts, stating everywhere this shows just how stupid she is. This is the meme of Leftists, that their opponents are stupid. Even when Paul Revere’s own accounting of the event proved Palin right, the Jurassic Press just ignored it and kept beating the ‘Palin is stupid’ drum.
Revere’s own words:
“I observed a Wood at a Small distance, & made for that. When I got there, out Started Six officers, on Horse back,and orderd me to dismount;-one of them, who appeared to have the command, examined me, where I came from,& what my Name Was? I told him. it was Revere, he asked if it was Paul? I told him yes He asked me if I was an express? I answered in the afirmative. He demanded what time I left Boston?I told him; and aded, that their troops had catched aground in passing the River, and that There would be five hundred Americans there in a short time, for I had alarmed the Country all the way up. He imediately rode towards those who stoppd us, when all five of them came down upon a full gallop; one of them, whom I afterwards found to be Major Mitchel, of the 5th Regiment, Clapped his pistol to my head, called me by name, & told me he was going to ask me some questions, & if I did not give him true answers, he would blow my brains out. He then asked me similar questions to those above. He then orderd me to mount my Horse, after searching me for arms.”
The reason I bring this up is because in his ‘more spending’ speech a couple nights ago he said Abraham Lincoln was the founder of the Republican Party. I’m hearing crickets from the area of the Jurassic Press. The Republican Party was formed on February 28, 1854 by Alvan E. Bovay in Wisconsin. The reason it was formed was to block legislation allowing slavery in new territories. The pro-slavery Democrat Party, aligned with the South lost the Civil War, and was the out party for many years. African Americans voted Republican for decades after.
Still hearing crickets. Remember too that Palin was speaking conversationally, and Obama was reading his teleprompter. No doubt it was the teleprompter’s fault.
By the way, these are the same knuckleheads that just had a hoot and holler when Palin said one of her favorite authors was C.S. Lewis; she reads children’s books! How stupid is she? Of course, when it was pointed out Lewis was one of the foremost theologians and Christian apologists of the 20th century, they just forged ahead with Palin is stupid.
Two things are happening in Arizona, one good and one not so much.
The good is that talk show host and former congressman J.D. Hayworth is challenging RINO (Republican in Name Only) and Statist John McCain for the people's Arizona Senate seat. McCain is already running ads against Hayworth, who has not yet officially announced. Remember McCain of McCain/Feingold that limited free speech and was just overturned by the Supreme Court, McCain/Kennedy immigration amnesty (undocumented workers are really undocumented Democrat voters), and initially wanted Statist Joe Lieberman as his VP running mate. On all matters other than Defense, McCain supports Statist policies.
The bad is that Sarah Palin, for some odd reason, has announced she'll campaign for McCain. After McCain's staff trashed her, insulted her, lied about her; and he said nothing in her defense, or told his guys to knock it off, she's going to do this? Plus, she's made it clear she's not a Statist, so what's the deal? This is a huge political miscalculation on her part, and her political instincts up to this point have been flawless. Hopefully she's seeing something the rest of the Conservative movement isn't.
The Republican Party "leadership" is supporting the Statist Dede Scozzafava in New York. She has ties to labor and supports card check, is pro abortion, gay marriage, not entirely supportive of a strong military, and a story is emerging that she's channeling campaign money to her family. Her conservative opponent Doug Hoffman has a problem because he doesn't live in the district and can't vote there. Where's the "leadership" here? Scozzafava was selected by party bosses; not in a voting primary.
In Florida Charlie Crist has made the 'lets make nice with Statists' noises, and his numbers are dropping in favor of former (Conservative)House Speaker Marco Rubio. As of this morning Crist still has a 15% lead, but that's down from 29%.
What these stories have in common is the battle inside the Republican Party for control continues. Conservatives and the "Rockefeller" wings have been at it forever. Last week in an interview, Newt Gringrich of all people, said we have to be a big tent, get moderates and independents in there. Well, we did that with Specter, Snowe, and a bunch of liberals like them, and what do they do? They vote mostly with the Democrats! Where's the sense in that? The Republican "leadership" allowed uber-moderate McCain to get nominated against the wishes of the majority of the Party, the core of the Party, and he was soundly beaten by a full blown socialist. McCain was and is still constantly reaching out to Statists, and ignores what his own party wants. Did the tent get bigger? No. It shrunk.
Does anyone ever hear the Dems do the same? Do they back down at all on their pro-illegal immigrant policy, pro-sanctuary city policy, government financed abortion policy, higher taxes, anti-corporation philosophy? Their appeasement of terrorists and dictators? Do they back down from their personal attacks on citizens that oppose their policies? Do they back down from attacks on private property? Do they back down from their anti-gun policy? Do they back down from using the thought police? They were in power most of the twentieth century, lost it for a couple of years when they were voted out, and were quickly voted back in.
What did the Republican "leadership" do when they had a chance to implement ideas and policies that are proven to work? Started acting like Statists lite. Soft tyranny is still tyranny; don't care what the party affiliation is. Plus they couldn't keep their zippers up. Hey Re-pube-i-cans, Dems have sexual license, you don't. Keep your zippers up.
The idea of limited government and low taxes appeals to the people. Being hard on the bad guys appeals to people. States rights appeals to the people. Support of the family appeals to the people. Enforcement of immigration laws appeals to the people. Traditional values appeals to the people. Supporting religion appeals to the people. Property rights appeals to the people. A strong military appeals to the people.
Republican "leadership" better wake up. GOP Chairman Steele needs to get some steel in his political spine. He's marginally better than his predecessor. I supported and had hope for him in that position, but he too 'reaches across the aisle'. When do you ever see a Dem do that? Gringich has become a disappointment too with his lame excuse for supporting Scozzafava.