The only good thing about the Donald Trump presidential campaign, which racked up two more wins Saturday, is that it surfaces all the ugliness that the Republican leadership wraps in a velvet cloak and pretends is high fashion. The most recent example is Trump’s showy unwillingness to disavow former KKK leader David Duke, which he eventually did with a laughably unbelievable excuse.
This allowed the GOP leadership to give a demonstration of controlled panic at the idea of a Trump presidency. “If a person wants to be the nominee of the Republican Party, there can be no evasion and no games,” Speaker of the House (and failed vice presidential candidate) Paul Ryan said. “They must reject any group or cause that is built on bigotry. This party does not prey on people’s prejudices. We appeal to their highest ideals.”
Of course, this assertion is hysterical coming from the party of voter suppression, birtherism, and speeches to white supremacists. But it’s especially hypocritical when it comes to anti-gay bigotry. The GOP has made homophobia a pillar of its electoral strategy. Given the choice between people’s prejudices and their highest ideals, Republican leaders have chosen prejudices every time.
Here are five examples of just how much bigotry is part of the Republican fabric.
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1. Ensuring the failure of ENDA
If the Employment Non-Discrimination Act were ever allowed to come to a full vote in the House of Representatives, it would probably pass. There are a handful of Republicans who would buck the party and join with Democrats to vote in favor of the workplace protection bill, just as there was in the Senate. But, catering to the most conservative members, the House leadership will never allow a vote on the bill. Even though seven in 10 Americans believe that firing someone because they are LGBT should be illegal, the Republican establishment insists on the right of businesses to can someone just for who they are.
2. Appealing to homophobia to increase voter turnout
The classic case for using gay rights as a wedge issue was in 2004, when Karl Rove, President George W. Bush’s frontal lobe, decided that having anti-marriage initiatives on state ballots would drive evangelical voters to the polls. Eleven states had anti-marriage ballot measures that year, and there’s no question that they played a role in turnout. Whether that made a difference in the general election is a matter of dispute; John Kerry was never going to win Mississippi, for example. But it may have made a difference in the pivotal state of Ohio, delivering its electoral vote to Bush. Even if it didn’t turn the election, the fact that the party’s leadership would think playing on homophobia was a brilliant campaign strategy tells you all you need to know about the leadership’s high moral values.
3. Milking the religious liberty exception to marriage
Having lost the marriage war, the Republican leadership is still encouraging skirmishes against the right to marry by promoting the religious liberty argument. There’s the love fest with Kim Davis and the rash of state initiatives protecting bigotry disguised as religious belief. But even the so-called moderate in the presidential race, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, promotes a warped idea of progress. He thinks that businesses shouldn’t discriminate against LGBT people, but if they do, we should just cut them a break.
4. Courting hate groups
What would the Republican primary season be without hate groups and other right-wing bigots front and center? This election cycle includes Bryan Fischer of the American Family Association, the Family Research Council and the National Organization for Marriage. Ted Cruz relied upon religious right leaders to take him to victory in Iowa. Only in today’s GOP would someone like Duck Dynasty patriarch Phil Robertson find a platform for his hate speech.
5. Blocking gay presidential appointees
Congressional Republicans block Obama’s nominees for courts or the executive branch reflexively, but in a few cases the obstructionism has been pointed at gay nominees. Marco Rubio, the notorious switch hitter of the Senate (we’re talking about policy flip-flops, of course) recommended a gay black man, William Thomas, to the federal bench, only to bail on his support when the president nominated Thomas. Edward DuMont would have been the first openly gay man on the U.S. Court of Federal Appeals, the federal court just one step below the Supreme Court, but despite outstanding credentials, his nomination went nowhere. Eric Fanning’s nomination to be Secretary of the Army is on indefinite hold by Sen. Pat Roberts, for no other reason than because Roberts can. “I want to stress it’s nothing personal,” Roberts insists.
Why do we find that hard to believe?
Of course, there are a lot more examples where these came from. The point is that leaders have been coyly pretending that they object to LGBT rights for a policy reasons, while at the same time enabling really vile hate talk and courting extremists who believe that homosexuality should be a capital offense.
So the next time you hear a Republican leader talk about how the party abhors bigotry, look for a fire extinguisher, because his pants are probably on fire.
Robert Zakem
The Republican establishment is so hypocritical it’s beyond belief. Mind you most of my republican friends are fiscal conservatives (they’re really more libertarian). They could care less about the social issues that have hamstrung the Republican Party. Unless and until the republican establishment gives up on this religious Jihad of theirs, they are going to continue to lose ground in this country.
Alistair Wiseman
Sorry Queerty, you have failed at history once again. Much is made of America’s original sin – slavery.
Unfortunately, you have failed to recall that the Democratic party is the party of slavery. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, KKK, etc. all have one thing in common – Democrats.
So the next time you are talking about white supremacists and the like, it might behoove you to take in a bigger, more accurate picture.
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: “Unfortunately, you have failed to recall that the Democratic party is the party of slavery. Slavery, Jim Crow, segregation, KKK, etc. all have one thing in common – Democrats.”
They were referred to as Dixie Democrats up until the late 1950’s. The children of the same Dixie Democrats who parted the sea and went on over to the republicans during the anti-segregation/civil rights/Vietnam/school desegregation/anti-busing era are in charge of the party now. And look what happened to it. They, just as you, didn’t bother to look at their rank and file members and just how far back in the woods they had left them.
Bubbah, their rank and file’s most fire breathing supporter, is aware that he has been duped and it is thru Trump he is venting his anger. Have you noticed how less and less you hear the candidates talking about Obamacare and other so called but proven false apocalyptic issues that once were the order of the day as far as their (the GOP) preaching went?
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: You are a total utter failure. The republicans have embraced the KKK and bigotry. The democrats denounced it. The democrats were leading the charge to get the Civil Rights ACt passed.
Trump is finished.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Trump lacks all form of substance. Much like you and Alistair. No substance at all. While your post started out fine, you still can’t answer as to why you support him.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: “you still can’t answer as to why you support him.”
Trump is NOT going to be told what to do by anyone. In other words that prime minister who decided to come to the United States on the eve of an election and address the congress but not the president during his stay knows he had better NOT do that to Trump. Trump has also called it like it is in regards to businesses and social stability; if you want to keep your record profits and tax breaks you are going to have to relocated living wage paying jobs BACK to the United States. Case closed. Jury dismissed. He is not relenting on that issue because he of all people knows what the cost of living in NYC is, let alone the rest of the country. Thats why he pays his people well and hires only the best. To hell with hiring cheap labor decades ago, that was then. He is seeing the right now as to how things are in the country, yours and mine lack of buying power.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985:When he speaks of Obama it is not vindictive as is the case with the others (I voted for Obama twice). Yes, he says the clandestine phrases indicating that a black guy is telling us what to do but that is to be expected. Trump’s tone is more of the community college level and that is why he is appealing to the masses. What does that tell you about education in this country? How did a loud mouth New Yorker come along and, win or lose, leave the party in such disarray that the party knows itself it has no other choice but to reinvent itself because it has become extinct.
You know something is wrong when Fox News is clearly NOT on board with any of the republican candidates regardless of how much they despise Trump. The convention is going to be very nasty and we might see a repeat of the Democratic Convention of 1968, only its now the republicans turn to show how frayed it too has become.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Trump is an utter mess and disaster. He is not going to be told what to do, but he would also be grossly incompetent in the position of leadership. Trump cannot even manage his own businesses correctly. He will not do anything to stop jobs leaving the country. In fact he’ll encourage it and promote it. He’s a disaster and he would offer only total economic disaster to this country. He’s not seeing anything right. He’s a complete and utter liar in every regard.
Trump is done. He won’t win the Presidency.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: He’s appealing to some bigots but he fails to reach beyond that. Minorities hate him and minorities now drive elections. This isn’t 1980.
GC1985
Trump has no solutions and no real ideas. This is NOT someone you give power. He’ll fail miserably in November if he is the candidate. LOL… the funny thing is he is actually the weakest republican candidate, yet he leads the delegate count. Republicans will be in for a shellacking.
Stache
@GC1985: It doesn’t look like Bobs post is supporting Trump.
Stache
Ha. Nevermind.
Stache
@GC1985: Sure he does. He’s going to build a wall between us and Mexico and make them pay for it. Who else is promising that?
GC1985
@Stache: He has announced his support for Trump in past posts.
GC1985
@Stache: Walls fail. Ask Germans about that one. Oh and the Great Wall of China failed too.
His logic is demented.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: I couldn’t be happier you said that. What makes me smile is how you didn’t go into what Hillary doesn’t do or say. She does not inspire a crowd during her speeches and when you look at the people in her background they seem to be void of, of all people, whites. The people standing behind her in her rallies makes one wonder if blacks are the only minority in America. It is unfortunate but true. I am only saying what you and I are seeing and hearing. In the comment section there is plenty of chatter about what she did that made no sense (and it is all true) but never about how she is going to change things for the better. That robotic smile and walk are not helping either.
I can not see a third Clinton term, regardless of my high opinion of her husband. It is now an ABC factor on both sides are far as I am concerned:
Its just as simple as ABC Anyone But Cruz. Anyone But Clinton. .
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: But the Great Wall of China still stands. And it makes money as a tourist attraction. Are you telling me you have not seen the title “Great Wall of Trump” in the crystal ball?
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You don’t seem to have much of a grasp of what is going on. Hillary will definitely connect more with people than Trump. Trump is an utter disaster and time and time again lags in all polls. Trump is done. She actually has ideas she’ll push. Ideas with SUBSTANCE. That is where Trump fails miserably at.
Trump only attracts angry old white men… and angry old white men don’t win elections. So you’re quite in trouble.
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman:
Three quick things Allistaiir.
1. Funny how to have anything to attack the Democrats with you had to go back over 150 years. That pretty much negates your argument.
2. Notice how the Democrats that were opposed to civil rights left the party after the civil rights movement and switched to a party that was more in line with their thinking? For example, the Democrats were too progressive on Civil Rights, so Strom Thurmond left and ended up a Republican. That also negates your argument.
3. Lastly, you phony self hating Log Cabin types always play the same games, you try to avoid talking about the actual topic. What is the Republican party doing right now with regard to race and sexual orientation?
Every single GOP candidate wants to overturn the Marriage law, the GOP fought against gays in the military and 3 candidates attended a forum put on by a group wanting to legalize murder of LGBTs.
So you may think you are scoring a point by your comment, but anybody with a grasp of history and current events sees it as not just sad and pathetic, but dangerously self deluded and self hating.
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: “It doesn’t look like Bobs post is supporting Trump.”
Excuse me?
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: By the way, Hillary actually does get a lot of white voters. Take a closer look please.
And come to me when you actually have SUBSTANCE. Hillary has substance and Trump does not.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: “She actually has ideas she’ll push. Ideas with SUBSTANCE.”
Please LIST them. Her ideas I am referring to. Please list the top three. And don’t think I have not paid attention to how quickly you are responding to my post so it shouldn’t take THAT long. Just list the top three issues. If not three then the top two. If not the top two then the top one. But please, let if roll of your tongue without a google search.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: 1. Actual immigration reform that is comprehension and not just building a wall.
2. Tax increases on the rich to make up the gap in the deficit
3. Stricter gun control.
And what has Trump pushed? Tell me what. Give me some SUBSTANCE (since you’re clearly LACKING in that field).
GC1985
@GC1985: *comprehensive.
GC1985
I know for a FACT that I and MOST Americans will NOT vote for Trump. So I’m quite confident on where I stand.
John Malin
The Republicans have routinely used divisive language and bigotry in the past few decades, passed laws excluding universal voting rights and obstructed any and everything that does not line their pockets with power and money. Suddenly, they realize that they’ve let the Kraken loose from its cage and they too are in mortal danger! Now they are fighting to stop Trump, whom they cannot control, and it may very well be just too damned late, to even save the GOP from fracturing. You reap what you sow, and in this case it is the Whirlwind that cannot be controlled. Unfortunately, the hatred and bigotry that Trump has loosed on us, will also do great harm to all Americans.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: Your getting tired and it is showing, trust me. I said earlier Trump was the only one (the GOP) who is demanding that businesses bring back living wage paying jobs from Mexico and has told them its either that or they will face a tarrif on their finished-overseas-products so high they will have wished they had made whatever it is they are selling here in the states than over their. He will get his point across and that is what now has everyone afraid of him. He is not going to be told what to do and you and I have more to benefit from his line of thinking that some foolish belief that two hundred or so thousand dollars more taxation of the rich is going to benefit you, I or the country. That is absurd.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Trump is “demanding businesses bring back living wage paying jobs?” And how on earth woudl he accomplish that? Nationalize businesses? Man oh man, the only tired one here is you. Hillary has the only workable economic plan including tax increases on the rich and more incentives for businesses to keep jobs HERE.
As suspected. YOu have as little substance as the man you’re supporting. And stop trying to make this personal. I would no way support such a raving buffoon like Trump that would collapse this country into another economic depression.
You are ABSURD.
GC1985
” has told them its either that or they will face a tarrif on their finished-overseas-products so high they will have wished they had made whatever it is they are selling here in the states than over their.”
And this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
Americans would have to pay more for everything including cars. This country is NOT a manufacturing country. THe focus is on HIGHER paying jobs than manufacturing. And if you think Mexico is the only country you’re even more devoid of substance than I previously thought.
Hillary isn’t afraid of TRump and has ripped him to pieces.
A raving buffoon with no substance.
GC1985
TRUMP = ECONOMIC DEPRESSION.
How can I put that more simply?
HE WILL NOT BENEFIT US, you simpleton. He is someone who has been living in an ivory tower his whole life. His money isn’t even his. And maybe Hillary is privileged too, but she is a whole lot better than that windbag.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: You are right. Most Americans are going to stop and think numerous times between now and November if they want Trump on the world scene with power as compared to now. In other words they are hoping for a Hail Mary candidate and even that is only going to cause more chaos because of the third party try that BOTH sides can/will launch against each other, with the democrats coming out the loser in this case. A brokered republican convention can be the last straw as far as the electoral process goes as we currently know it. Everyone is agreed on that one. Things can no longer go back to being the same.
Hillary is not loved and no one really cared for that book she wrote blaming Obama for the Benghazi disaster. It has also surfaced that it was her who insisted that Ghadaffi be taken out, or allowed to be taken care of by vengeful tribesmen. Now look at Libya. Three different groups are claiming control while no less than twenty others are sitting on the sidelines waiting instructions from the highest bidder, or caliph if you will. She, just as Bush, was warned of what would happen and didn’t listen. Muslim do NOT take orders from women.
Cheer that ol’ hillbilly on all you want you have no IDEA what you are hoping for. Sometimes I must admit I do the same with……………………….I tell you, this is a mess we have here and it is FOR REAL.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You are so wrong about Hillary and you don’t even know what you’re talking about. You are just a raving mad man, like the man you’re supporting. Who cares about Libya? Qaddafi was going to be kicked out with or without our intervention. It would have gone for several more years, but his time was up because of the tribal nature of that country.
Continue supporting that pompous windbag devoid of any REAL workable solutions.
Trump would drive this country into a depression and you can’t even see it.
GC1985
And I have more of a damn idea and clue than you do. Your support of Trump is sickening, disturbing and has no real substance and merit.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: “And this is the stupidest thing I have ever heard.
Americans would have to pay more for everything including cars. This country is NOT a manufacturing country. THe focus is on HIGHER paying jobs than manufacturing. And if you think Mexico is the only country you’re even more devoid of substance than I previously thought.”
Honey, its been nice. But to go any further would amount to child abuse which is all this has turned into. Have a nice day.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You are running away… because…
You’re devoid of any real thought and idea. Now you resort to stupid insults like your candidate. Running away is all YOU PEOPLE do.
Bob LaBlah
@GC1985: I’ll be DAMNED. I just caught who the hell you are. It serves me right. Who the hell else would…………..queen, good bye.
GC1985
Trump supporters sound a lot like abused children.
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Goodbye. And yea I’m well into my transitioning 🙂
GC1985
It’s funny this guy also thinks a third party run would hurt Hillary. No, it would hurt the republican party.
Man oh man… I have to stop messing with this guy. It’s quite sad.
rbernard
Somewhere along the way, the republican party forgot how to govern a rich diverse county and it devolved into the “tax cuts for the rich” and “oppose all things Obama party”. What is left is a dysfunctional incoherent mess incapable of governing. We should do everything we can to hasten its final demise and let it rest in peace.
Stache
@GC1985: Trump is going to expose the Republican Party which is nice. No more hiding racism and bigotry under names like religious freedom. Not that I’m voting for him but I’d rather have that.
Stache
@Bob LaBlah: I think Bernie Sanders would achieve more of the things you like Trump for. I agree with allot of the points you made. However, I don’t see Trump as the one to deliver it. He just parrots the things he knows his base wants to hear.
1EqualityUSA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg0pO9VG1J8
GC1985
@Stache: How so? How does he expose that when he himself is a bigot?
@Stache: I don’t recall Bernie wanting to build a wall, bomb countries indiscriminately, and privatize health care. As well as illegalizing same sex marriage and abortion.
Trump is the ideological opposite of Sanders. Clinton is closer to Sanders and Sanders while a nice guy now had no shot of making up the 200+ delegate deficit. And I am not counting superdelegates.
GC1985
@rbernard: The republicans don’t have the mass mobilization machine Democrats do. I just wish more Democrats would show up at midterms.
Anyways take a look at a Trump rally. Very few women and mostly older white men. At one rally one of the few young white men physically assaulted a protester. Lovely bunch. And Bob wants me to believe there is diversity there lol. Not.
1EqualityUSA
Republicans resort to cheating and voter suppression because their message sucks and no longer floats their boat, the U.S.S. Bigot.
GC1985
@1EqualityUSA: People say Trump isn’t a bigot. If I was a guy who made political TV ads for democrats I would have a gold mine of material.
He has insulted Asians by making fun of the way they talk.
He has insulted people with physical disabilities.
He has insulted women numerous times.
He has insulted Muslims.
He has insulted Mexicans.
He has insulted gay people.
Oh top of that various exit polls show that only 49% of republicans approve of Trump as a candidates. This is hilarity.
As I said… The outgoing incumbent’s party is usually at a disadvantage. Republicans, and Trump especially, have managed to screw themselves so badly they are most certainly going to lose. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot!
GC1985
@GC1985: *On top of that.
Anyways… Trump is a dud.
Bob LaBlah
@Stache: No, Sanders would not do the things Trump has suggested/vowed to do. I could not see him (Sanders) being any more respected on the world front than Trump. If anything he would be less respected because of his tone, theatrics and world views.
What I love about Trump is how he is scaring the hell out of those in charge of the media and all but ten percent of the real estate in NYC. When Trump told the world at the second debate just what a mess the world was in due to ignoring the advice of his (Bush) generals, his Secretary of State, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell and believe it or not, Patrick J. Buchannan (yes, THAT Pat Buchannan) I knew right there and then here was a man that little busybody overseas was not going to be able to control. It was obvious we were suckered into that war thanks to neocons who knew what Bush was (a dummy) and Trump called his brother Jeb on it. From that point on I was in Trumps corner.
That is a man who calls it like it is and that is what is now needed in the office instead of one of the two latino clowns who tend to forget they are nothing else but a minority one notch under Obama on the totem pole. They (just like Bobby Jindal) are asking the public (us here in the south) to ignore this Cuban/American bull they pump out and try seeing them as mainstream Americans, which ninety percent of us in my county do not see them as. Going on and on about how their grandparents were poor and other utter nonsense. How many people are they employing while they are speaking of their successes? Are they Cuban or American first? Why the need for the hyphen and all the “praise” for claims of poverty to riches when neither are true? Why no comment about how Cubans are treated as compared to the Mexican?
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Angry rhetoric doesn’t match up with reality. Trump is a rich kid who got his money from daddy. How is he saying things as they are? The man has no connection with average people. Nobody is scaring anyone. Trump is a doofus elitist who is serving his own selfish interests. At least Hillary tells it as it is. Not a lying imbecile like Trump.
Stache
@GC1985: Because Trumps followers don’t pretend their bigotry is about religion or bother to hide it under the radar. Tired of dealing with wolves in sheeps clothing. The Republican heads hate him because of this and that’s reason enough.
Trent Carson
Thats weird, you didnt even list voter suppression as a reason. you white gay guys kill me .
GC1985
@Stache: trumps followers are angry old white men who hate dark people. I need to remind people it is 2015. Not 1980.
GC1985
Lol stuck in last year mode. 2016 🙂
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: “I knew right there and then here was a man that little busybody overseas was not going to be able to control.”
LMAO. So is that why your man Trump calls for carpet bombing other countries? It seems to me he doesn’t even take his own advice.
“Why no comment about how Cubans are treated as compared to the Mexican?”
If you were so concerned about how Latinos are treated, why are you supporting Donald Trump?
GC1985
How can you be on Trump’s side simply because of one thing he said? How about all the other stupidity he has said that makes no sense?
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/donald-trump/
According to well respected Politifact with regards to the statements they have collected, Donald Trump lies 78% of the time (either mostly or completely). If we do not
http://www.politifact.com/personalities/hillary-clinton/
Compared to Hillary Clinton… She tells the truth 76% of the time. Now I am counting half true as part of it, but if we do not count that she tells the truth 51% of the time.
Donald Trump tells the truth 8% of the time (if you don’t count half truths).
So yeah… 51%… 8%…
Somebody is the bigger BS artist. At least Hillary really does tells it as it is.
And KUDOS to Hillary tonight for calling for the resignation of Rick Snyder.
GC1985
“I can’t believe what our country is doing,” Trump said, according to a BuzzFeed transcript. “Gaddafi in Libya is killing thousands of people, nobody knows how bad it is, and we’re sitting around we have soldiers all have the Middle East, and we’re not bringing them in to stop this horrible carnage and that’s what it is: It’s a carnage.” – Donald Trump 2011.
Nail. In. Coffin.
He’s a NEO CON.
Alistair Wiseman
@DCguy:
You certainly don’t have to go back 150 years to show the bigotry and r@cist history of the Democratic party. Let’s take a look at the greatest advancement in civil rights in the last 100 years – the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
A greater percentage of Republicans supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964 than did Democrats.
The Civil Right Act of 1964 Roll Call Vote: In the House, only 64% of Democrats (153 yes, 91 no), but 80% of the Republicans (136 yes, 35 no) voted for it. In the Senate, while only 68% of Democrats endorsed the bill (46 yes, 21 no), 82% of the Republicans voted to enact it (27 yes, 6 no).
Of course, this is way after the Reconstruction Era (1863-1877) when the first Black Americans in the House and Senate were Republican.
1. 22 Black Republicans in the House of Representatives
2. 2 Black Republicans in the Senate
3. 0 Black Democrats in the House of Representatives
4. 0 Black Democrats in the Senate
In 1964, Senator Robert Byrd a Democrat and former KKK Kleagle member from West Virginia filibustered the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Act – supported by a majority of those “mean-spirited” Republicans – for more than 14 hours. Let me be clear here, Robert Byrd was a paid, high-ranking member of the KKK. He didn’t dabble in racism as a college student, he practically had Klan dental and a company car. This isn’t just some random, inconsequential Democrat on a state legislature. Robert Byrd was President Pro Tempore of the Senate. Which means he was third in line for succession of the President between 2007-2010.
That means that if a plane went down anywhere in that time period, and Obama, Biden and Pelosi happened to be on it… The man above would have been your president!
All this to make the point that you likely already know. Democrats have always been and remain the party of the KKK. That’s never changed. The idea that the KKK jumped ship to the Republican party is entirely a myth. Whenever someone tries to feed it to you, simple point to Robert Byrd… and his supporters like Hillary Clinton.
Democrats were so enamored with former KKK klansman that they named him the “Conscience of the Senate”.
Here is Hillary praising the former KKK Democrat:
https://youtu.be/ryweuBVJMEA
Here is Senator Byrd using the N–word in an interview:
https://youtu.be/PnO6ai0Ktro
It is really sad, but convenient, when Democrats do not know and ignore their evil, r@cist past.
1EqualityUSA
So, Alistair, all of your words and truffles are from the past. Do you agree with what’s being said about Mexicans, Muslims, LGBT, and women now, in 2016. Desperate, you cling and dig around for anything to stay relevant, but what about 2016? Do you agree with what is being said now. This is a yes or no answer.
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman:
So your response to my comment about how you had to go back 150 years to attack democrats, is to start listing off office holders from 150 years ago?
So in other words, your little log cabin talking points are so ingrained you can’t even stop repeating them to prove that you don’t repeat them?
And again, you still completely avoid the discussion of now, you avoid the GOP candidates attending a kill the gays forum, and the fact that every single GOP candidate for President has attacked LGBT rights. Why would you do that?
Oh, that’s right, if you discuss what is actually being said and done in your party you would have to admit that you were trying to support people who are attacking everybody’s civil rights and have spoken about stripping away marrige and even what job protections exist.
No wonder you want to talk about things from over a century ago. Anything today just show that you support bigots who would want to see you in jail for being what you are.
1EqualityUSA
Alistair, keep in mind that in a few years, others will be listing, as you have listed above, all of the atrocious, incredulous things the Rebiblicans are doing right now, in 2016, when the dark party should know better. They’ve had plenty of examples from which to learn and, yet, they’re still going down this road. Deplorable, for 2016. Just answer the question as yes or no. Do you agree with what they are saying? Kevin Swanson does.
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: Conservatives supported segregation. They merely jumped ship after Kennedy and LBJ supported civil rights. It was through the intense efforts by LBJ was the Civil Rights bill was passed. A greater percentage of northern Democrats supported the bill than Northern republicans. The Dixiecrats in the South jumped to the republican party and the northern republicans switched. This was called a political paradigm shift. Of course you are too ignorant to know anything about that.
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: And the KKK remains part of the Democratic party? Oh really? Is that why Republicans now are endorsed by the KKK and always win the South? You are as dumb as a rock. And Robert Byrd? Is that all you can bring up? I could bring up David Duke and Donald Trump… And Stormfront which supports the republican party. You are incredibly air headed. Your log cabin talking points don’t fly anymore.
Alistair Wiseman
@DCguy:
Again, with the reading comprehension.
Since when did 1964, 2010 (1st clip) and 2001 (2nd clip) become 150 years ago?
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: There are hundreds of KKK backed Republicans including Ronald Reagan. Never care to bring that up now do you? You are deeply ignorant of reality and history. The KKK was backed by Dixiecrats… In other words those who jumped to the republican party in the 1960s.
Alistair Wiseman
@1EqualityUSA:
You gave me no examples, but I’m assuming you are referring to some of the things that Donald Trump has said.
I have stated I will not defend Trump. He has been a registered Democrat, Independent and Republican. This year, he has an ‘R’ after his name. He is not a conservative. He is his own entity. He is a Trumplicancrat, so to speak.
Alistair Wiseman
@GC1985:
Does your mommy know you’re on the computer?
o.codone
George Wallace, a Democrat and segregationist blocked black children from going to school. He literally stood in the doorway of the schoolhouse and physically blocked black children from entering a white school. And everywhere he went there was a confederate flag. Democrats were in fact the party of racial hatred. Now, they’re just the party of thoughtless idiots.
How does Queerty assume all gay men are Democrats and then proceed to trash Trump and act like all gay men are signed-up to vote for Hillary? That’s just stupid. There’s lots of non-Democrat gay men and Queerty is really just offensively hurting our feelings. Take a broader view Queerty and it’s time to realize not everybody is schilling for the old-school crook and liar, Mrs. Clinton.
Bob LaBlah
@Alistair Wiseman: “Does your mommy know you’re on the computer?”
The question should have been directed more toward whether or not his probation officer knows he is back on here. He has been gone right at sixty-days, which is about the amount of time he should have received for trying to run out of Rite-Aide without paying for stockings and make-up.
Alistair Wiseman
@Bob LaBlah:
He is “special”. 🙂
DCguy
@Alistair Wiseman:
And again, you keep trying to refefence the past but continually refuse to deal with any current political situations in your own party.
Ask yourself, when every single Presidential candidate in your part has not just attacked LGBTs, not just said that they oppose civil rights for LGBTs, but 3 of them, including one of the two front runners attended an event put on by a group wanting to leagalize the murder of LGBTs.
Weird that you continaully refuse to talk about anything current or deal with those direct issue.
You keep bringing up things that Clinton or Sanders have said in the past, how about dealing with what all of your candidates are saying in THIS election.
The fact that you refuse to even talk about this aspect of your party shows the disingenuous nature of any of your arguments.
You support people that want to legalize your murder, I’m sure a therapist would have a field day with that.
DCguy
@DCguy: @o.codone: you stated :
George Wallace, a Democrat and segregationist blocked black children from going to school. He literally stood in the doorway of the schoolhouse and physically blocked black children from entering a white school. And everywhere he went there was a confederate flag. Democrats were in fact the party of racial hatred.
Hmmmmmmmmmm,,,,,,
Once again, anybody notice that all of the Log Cabin supporters on here absolutely refuse to talk about anything their party is doing right now?
So lets see, you will attack Democrats for something done half a century ago, (And leave out the part that it was a Democratic Senator who signed the Civil Rights bills, and multiple rac-ist democrats left the party and joined the GOP)
But you refuse to talk about what the GOP is doing today, right now
1EqualityUSA
All of the Rebiblicans are saying the same thing, though one is saying these things a bit more obnoxiously.All have the same things to say about Mexicans, LGBT, women, and the Supreme Court Justices that they would want on the bench for a too long lifetime.
1EqualityUSA
Bob LaBlah, though your comment was mean and all, it was creative.
Alistair Wiseman
@1EqualityUSA:
And what are they saying that you disagree with?
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: Can you stop all this for a minute? I have no criminal record and what you say is wrong. Bury the grudge and move on. I’m done getting into huge arguments with you, when our focus should be on this delusional Alistair and his little gang of thugs.
@o.codone: The vast overwhelming majority of gay people are democrat and liberal. We aren’t concerned with token gay people like yourself not being accepted in the Republican party.
Funny how neither Codone or Alistair can talk about Republican KKK support that spans back to the Nixon and Reagan administrations. Or the support that Storm front and David Duke are giving Republicans. Or the countless Southern Republicans that are total bigots and have alleged ties to the KKK.
GC1985
I had a nice post about Eisenhower which didn’t appear. Typical. Eisenhower would roll in his grave if he saw what the Republican party has become. He made a warning about misplaced power and the military industrial complex. The republican party did not heed those warnings and are now deeply corrupt and bigoted. Eisenhower would be a democrat today.
GC1985
Codone calls Hillary a liar. Isn’t that nice? I posted several links from politifact that state she tells the truth even more than Sanders and Obama. She tells the truth either completely or entirely 51% of the time (counting the key policy statements). Trump tells the truth 8% of the time in the same context.
You make the conclusions.
1EqualityUSA
BuildingwallsAppointingJusticeswhowillrevokeourmarriagesWeakeningUnionsCarpetbombingSyriaandIraqjustafew,Alistair
1EqualityUSA
Alistair, why do you ignore questions asked of you?
billeetee
We DON’T need five reasons to denuciate the Bastards – only one:
TEAPUBLICAN!!!
1EqualityUSA
The Rebiblicans cross the line regarding the intertwining of religion and politics. Both will be tainted and neither will be satisfied.
He BGB
I don’t remember so much fear of gays until AIDS began in the 80s. That’s when everything really changed. Conservatives’ ignorance now had an excuse to hate gay people. Being Christian I never dreamed my people would turn on me so hatefully. If more people would come out of the closet it would help our cause. Conservatives like to think there are just a few of us and they can easily bully those few
Alistair Wiseman
@1EqualityUSA:
Um, I asked you a question to continue the conversation. Did you not see that?
GC1985
@Alistair Wiseman: Why do you support lying liars that only tell the truth less than 10% of the time?
Check out other republicans on that site. They don’t even make it pass 10%. Hillary tells the truth 51% of the time. If you count half truth statements too… Almost 80%.
I think you like being lied to.
GC1985
I think it is hilarious republicans accuse Hillary of lying all the time. I will continue to hammer this point home. Hillary is shown to tell the truth either 51% (counting most or complete truths) and almost 80% of the time (if including half truths). Most Republicans tell the truth less than 10%.
Politifact is nonpartisan and they do thorough analysis and research. Donald Trump is one of the most prolific liars. Bob says he believes him, but should we believe the boy who cries wolf after so many atrocious lies?
Donald Trump had a record amount of liar pants on fire designations on that site. More than any other candidate. Again you are being lied to and Hillary is telling it as it is most of the time (more than even Bernie Sanders and Barack Obama). Finally a mostly honest politician. Hillary has my support and that of most American people.
1EqualityUSA
Count back eleven or so comments, Alistair. Those are the questions to which I was referring, though I had forgotten the question mark x 2. I have to get to work on the house. Either answer or don’t. I matters not. We disagree. I would like for you to lay down the gauntlet and say who you support for 2016 and why. You won’t do this, opting to communicate via inference. Cheeky-cheeky, Naughty-sneaky. It gets a bit boring. If you truly believed in your Party, you would stand up and be counted. That, in itself, is a turn-off.
1EqualityUSA
51% is too low.
1EqualityUSA
half-truths suck.
GC1985
@1EqualityUSA: It goes up to 76% if you count it all up. And she never says anything that is a liar pants on fire designation. Only Trump does that. Hillary is mostly correct and honest with what she says. She is the most forward and direct candidates running for office. Let just hope the American people see it the same way… And I think they do. It was cool how democrats had like 50,000 show up to the polls than republicans in Louisiana. Their turnout is dramatically going up after a somewhat tepid showing.
We need a liberal iron lady in the White House. Not a bankrupt mafia linked big mouth.
GC1985
@GC1985: *50,000 more than Republicans. Many states thought to be republican like Louisiana and Georgia may turn into swing States in the near future. Republicans are dooommmmmmmeeeed.
1EqualityUSA
Politicians are not my favorite kind of humans, but ineffectual politicians are worse. Middle of the road, nothing too drastic, build on what Obama accomplished, despite the GOP riptide that defaced Washington. Get three Senate seats. Appoint three Justices all in that first year. Work the bugs out of the Affordable Care Act, as was done in Massachusetts, when they figured out how to insure all. They were very happy with the system after the kinks were worked out. A few regulations that protect small investors, lest we start to suspect that the GOP would rather we be fiscally weakened and, thus, more easily manipulated. Yes, Regulations to protect, but not so outrageous that it stifles growth. Middle of the road. A politician that can strike this balance will have staying power. Women are an untapped source of fuel, thick, long-withstanding, concentrated pools of pure fuel. The Republican message to women is no longer acceptable. Labor is toiling and boiling and getting scared. Republicans like, “scared.” Why else would fear be the dominant driving force of their message? When we are financially vulnerable, we’re more easily manipulated. It’s not pretty. Vote Democratic. We are psychologically happier souls and govern differently. Republicans abuse their power when they have it. They’re like bad dog owners who, later, blame the dog for it’s odd behavior. Republicans cheat. Republicans overspend. Republicans are obsolete.
joeyty
I haven’t seen anyone more indestructible than Trump since Andy Warhol. Warhol was once asked “Do you have anything to say to your critics?” and he answered, “Oh, I really can’t say anything to them. They’re right.”
1EqualityUSA
The Republicans want to do away with health care to slowly exterminate an unwanted population with strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, and shoddy grocery stores that sell unappetizing fruits and vegetables. Cheetos, chips, and cheap treats are at eye-level and affordable. Who would want gun regulations, as that would slow down progress…ew. I must clean house. Our Nation must clean house.
1EqualityUSA
joeyty. the Republicans don’t want Trump because they cannot control him. They will go State by State and rend the delegates way from your chosen one. He will not win…Hu….Hu…Humphrey! Excuse me. Allergies.
joeyty
@1EqualityUSA: I love that Republicans hate him. He’s infuriating all the right people.
GC1985
@1EqualityUSA: Hillary is tough, direct and quite honest. Honesty is a rare trait but she does have it. She makes Republicans piss their pants. Just look at the 11 hour hearing where she didn’t even flinch.
joeyty
@GC1985: LOL. I don’t think so. No more lying Clintons, please. Sanders is the better bet.
1EqualityUSA
jolty, Sanders = Jimmy Carter, ineffectual against the GOP riptide. I don’t think he could win against Romney. Hillary will make a fool out of Romney because he’s shallow and his artifice is prevalent.
1EqualityUSA
joeyty, not jolty…how do these things happen? It must be the will of god….
joeyty
@1EqualityUSA: How do what things happen ?
1EqualityUSA
autocorrect, I was being a superstitious religious nut who blames obvious autocorrect on unseen spiritual forces, for lack of understanding.
Stilinski26
I am not American and don’t really know a lot about American politics but from my knowledge I found the following:Republicans hates Trump. Democrats hates trump. Gays hates trump. Democrats are pro LGBT and pro Muslims. Republicans are pro Christianity and anti LGBT. Christians and Muslims both hates gays.
GC1985
@joeyty: According to politifact you are incorrect. Clinton has been more truthful about policy and key statements than Sanders. Oh and your man Sanders is way behind in delegates count. Hillary has a bigger lead over Sanders (around 200 delegate lead) than Obama did at this point in 2008.
Sanders needs to win every last state by 55%. Won’t happen. Hillary is going win key states like Michigan and Florida by big margins.
@1EqualityUSA: Romney? I thought he said no to running this time.
GC1985
@Stilinski26: Democrats, especially Hillary Clinton, slammed antigay policies in Muslim countries.
Stilinski26
@GC1985: I remember someone commented Hillary Clinton was against same sex marriage in the 90s.
GC1985
@Stilinski26: Yet she has been in favor of it since 2011 (making strongly supportive statements to the UN in 2011.
Stilinski26
@GC1985: so she was against gay marriage before then.
woodin
Can’t forget when Palin and Cruz led the March on the White House in the 2013 GOP led budget shut down with klansmen among the marchers
GC1985
@Stilinski26: So was most of the democratic party. Move on from that nonpoint. The majority of the public changed its mind too.
scotshot
@Alistair Wiseman: Poor thing, reduced to copying and recopying the same old tired GOTP scripts that Democrats, who at one time were the party of slavery and racism still are. (sigh)
1EqualityUSA
He sees himself as the savior of the conservative Republicans, Romney will run to the altar and make a fool of himself again.
1EqualityUSA
Stilinski is a rightwing plant, scotshot, proceed with caution. They have a certain odor, don’t they?
dwes09
@Bob LaBlah: “Muslim do NOT take orders from women”
People claim you are speaking from your imagination/bad talking points rather than reality, and this is one more example of it.
Pakistan, Indonesia (the largest Muslim nation), Turkey and Senegal have all elected women to their highest office. You would be more correct in saying the US will not take orders from a woman!
As with most other things, fact trumps imagination every time. You IMAGINE your statement to be true because you know a tiny bit about 20% of the Muslim population, and nothing about it as a whole. Try again.
dwes09
@1EqualityUSA: “The Republicans want to do away with health care to slowly exterminate an unwanted population with strokes, heart attacks, diabetes, and shoddy grocery stores that sell unappetizing fruits and vegetables. Cheetos, chips, and cheap treats are at eye-level and affordable.”
That is not true at all. Republican Policy folks want to do away with health care reform as one way to maintain a lumpen proletariat. They want a group that will continue to be easily manipulated, always on the edge of despair, willing to clean their toilets for cheap, easy to pit against each other and so on. They do not want increases in self-esteem, perceived options, critical thought or quality of life for most citizens.
They don’t want to do away with them, they want more of them to do their bidding, assuming they will be too out-of-sorts to ever rise up.
scotshot
The “discussion” running here today is the same that ran in 2008 & 2012 against President Barack Obama. Obama won Your side lost then and they will lose this time. Get over it Trolls.
dwes09
@Stilinski26: ” I remember someone commented Hillary Clinton was against same sex marriage in the 90s.”
It is both typical and sad that the right seems to believe that nobody and nothing ever changes! That is a clear demonstration of a lack of critical thought, as well as a medieval mind. Things change and people change, as all of life shows us, if we bother to look.
And in a politician the ability to progress intellectually and ethically is a huge positive. But it remains anathema to the right who always look back to an imagined (or improperly understood) past.
Stilinski26
@dwes09: I was just curious cuz I saw comments about it and now I am a right wing ? seriously? If she has changed than good to her.
Stilinski26
@1EqualityUSA: your ignorance is appalling.
1EqualityUSA
Keep trying.
GC1985
@dwes09: You are cool. Keep up the pressure on the trolls.
Bob LaBlah
@dwes09: I do respect your choices but that for some for some reason I can not post the comment the way I want to respond to it. MANY of us are experiencing this lately.
It was the reasons surrounding their “elections” that made them nothing but figurines to quiet the west.
Bob LaBlah
@Bob LaBlah: dwes09……….Pakistan was in turmoil in 1988 after Zia died in a plane crash. She was shuttled out of office by the military two years later and never returned to the post again.
Bob LaBlah
@dwes09: The word police program is going full blast. It will not let me say what I want to say. Hopefully this will get thru. I would love to continue.
batesmotel
It’s terribly pathetic at how obsessed people are over Trump. It only proves their ignorance, naivety and fear.
joeyty
@batesmotel: I have mixed feelings about Trump, but it’s interesting that everytime he’s attacked it only works to his advantage. It shows just how much of the population is sick of politics as usual (personal attacks; political correctness; ho-hum Nazi comparisons..)
GC1985
@Bob LaBlah: You support a man that would collapse this country into an economic depression. Criticism is tough.
@joeyty: Lmao. Really? His unfavorable ratings are skyhigh outside his base.
GC1985
@joeyty: Pretty sure you’re another right wing republican drumbeater. Why do you come on here? Trump is only sinking the entire party and his disapproval ratings are extremely high. 2/3rds of Americans overall don’t like him!
girldownunder
GOP is the party of FUD, always…
They love to “stir”, as in stir up people by offering up things to divide us all. They try to find an “other” to point at as the “real problem”– then next, the GOP nut-job’s followers turn into crowds of torch-wielders, aka old, B&W Frankenstein movies.
Trump is a sociopath, pure & simple.
1EqualityUSA
girldownunder, agreed! This is why the GOP is going obsolete, hopefully for an entire century. Loons!
mz.sam
Down with Trump and the GOP.