WaPo: The GOP is no party for blacks, Latinos, and gays

[Oakvale]

OK, here's the link, for real:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT7pASof8Lc

...

Are you seriously posting a link to right-wing talk radio?

[Oakvale]

Count me down as member of the party of Dr. Martin Luther King, Fredrick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington, not that of Jim Crow, secession, and the South.

Channeling Oldiesfreak?

Plus, hasn't the "MLK was a Republican, so the Republican Party is therefore not at all racist " meme been thoroughly debunked?

You must be logged in to read this quote.

His son also adds a very pertinent point -

You must be logged in to read this quote.

[Oakvale]

Has Oldies come up with a ridiculously convoluted excuse for this map yet?

[Oakvale]

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Please provide evidence that the Republican party has ever supported:

1, slavery.
2, the KKK.

Evidence abounds aplenty for Democrats supporting both of these things.

Southern whites moved over to the Republican Party, ever read about the Nixon Southern strategy in school? I guess you weren't paying attention.

The Southern Strategy had nothing to do with racism, liebiral.

Read Oldiesfreak's landmark revisionist history posts on the matter if you don't believe me.

[Oakvale]

Evidence abounds aplenty that the racists have now all joined the GOP

No, it doesn't.  The only segregationist to join the GOP was Strom Thurmond.  Robert Byrd was serving in the Senate as a Democrat as recently as 2010.  Fritz Hollings was serving in the Senate as a Democrat as recently as 2004.  John Stennis, George Wallace, Bull Connor, Lester Maddox, Orval Faubus, Sam Ervin, Al Gore Sr., Ross Barnett, Herman Talmadge, and all the rest remained Democrats for life.

You must be logged in to read this quote.

Please provide evidence that the Republican party has ever supported:

1, slavery.
2, the KKK.

Evidence abounds aplenty for Democrats supporting both of these things.

Southern whites moved over to the Republican Party, ever read about the Nixon Southern strategy in school? I guess you weren't paying attention.

The Southern Strategy had nothing to do with racism, liebiral.

Read Oldiesfreak's landmark revisionist history posts on the matter if you don't believe me.

You're the ones accepting revisionist history.

The only segregationist to switch parties was Thurmond? How about Jesse Helms?
And do you really, honestly, believe that southern whites kept voting for Thurmond, and began voting for Helms, because they represented a party that had a greater commitment to civil rights? When both men explicitly said that they were becoming Republicans in opposition to Johnson's introduction of civil rights legislation? And that southern blacks suddenly started voting for the Democrats because they perceived the Republicans as having a stronger commitment to civil rights?
Say what you will about what you think the Southern Strategy was all about. But the evidence is clear that after 1968 black voters moved more heavily into the Democratic column, and conservative, anti-civil rights Southern white voters into the Republican column. In which case the Southern strategy was a bust, no?

No.

[Oakvale]

Why does he devote so much time, energy and effort to post such utter drivel? He can't surely believe a word of it (no one, not even a twelve year old posting on a political forum on the internet, could be that stupid), so there must be some other purpose at work here.

On the other hand, if he really does believe the garbage he posts it makes for a really fascinating look at life inside the bubble.