Well, give us your Top 10 then.[frypan]
DrMaddVibe wrote:
When Democrats revolted against racism, the G.O.P. rallied to its banner.
''The idea now is to name the airport **** International. That way it would satisfy all the blacks.'' Councilman Jim Westmoreland (R) Responding to a proposal to rename Houston's Intercontinental Airport after a black congressman, Jim Westmoreland
"There were no politics to polarize us then, to magnify every slight. The negroes of Washington had their public schools, restaurants, bars, movie houses, playgrounds and churches; and we had ours." --Pat Buchanan,
"The Democrats will scream racism. Let them. Republicans are not going to pick up significant black support anyway." Erick Erickson talking about how playing racial politics is fine
āāYou start out in 1954 by saying, ā****, ****, ****! By 1968 you canāt say ā****ā ā that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, statesā rights and all that stuff. Youāre getting so abstract now [that] youāre talking about cutting taxes, and all these things youāre talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.ā ā Lee Atwater, in a 1981 interview, explained the evolution of the Southern strategy
āāWe have lost sight of the historic, integral link between the party and African-Americans,ā Steele said. āThis party was co-founded by blacks, among them Frederick Douglass. The Republican Party had a hand in forming the NAACP, and yet we have mistreated that relationship. People donāt walk away from parties. Their parties walk away from them. For the last 40-plus years we had a āSouthern Strategyā that alienated many minority voters by focusing on the white male vote in the South.ā Michael Steele
"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong." Ken Mehlman
Ronald Reagan, the G.O.P.'s biggest hero, opposed both the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act of the mid-1960's. And he began his general election campaign in 1980 with a powerfully symbolic appearance in Philadelphia, Miss., where three young civil rights workers were murdered in the summer of 1964. He drove the crowd wild when he declared: ''I believe in states' rights.''
''I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could -- if that were your sole purpose -- you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.'' Bill Bennett
The next 6 are from people who attended a Sarah Palin rally:
āIām afraid if he wins, the blacks will take over. Heās not a Christian! This is a Christian nation! What is our country gonna end up like?ā
āWhen you got a **** running for president, you need a first stringer. Heās definitely a second stringer.ā
āHe seems like a sheep ā or a wolf in sheepās clothing to be honest with you. And I believe Palin ā sheās filled with the Holy Spirit, and I believe sheās gonna bring honesty and integrity to the White House.ā
āHeās related to a known terrorist, for one.ā
āObama and his wife, Iām concerned that they could be anti-white. That he might hide that.ā
āI donāt like the fact that he thinks us white people are trashā¦ because weāre not!ā
"Do you have blacks, too?" George W. Bush, to a shocked Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cordoso, in a meeting in March 2001
Bobby May, McCain campaign representative in Buchanan County, Virginia wrote:
REPARATIONS TO BLACK COMMUNITY: Opposes before Election Day and supports after Election Day.
FREEDOM OF RELIGION: Mandatory Black Liberation Theology classes taught in all churches - raise taxes to pay for this mandate. Put Rev. Jeremiah Wright in charge. Condemnation of homosexuality from the pulpit will become a Class 1 Felony.
HOMOSEXUAL MARRIAGE: Raise taxes. And coddle sexual perverts. Give tax breaks for NAMBLA membership fees.
DRUG CRISIS: Raise taxes to pay for free drugs for Obamaās inner-city political base.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: Keep buying foreign oil and sending billions to Muslim countries that hate us and want to destroy us. [Wait, isn't that the Republican platform?]
2ND AMENDMENT: Under Obama will only apply to gang-bangers, illegal aliens, Islamo-Fascist terrorists, and Senator Jim Webbās aide.
THE WHITE HOUSE: Hire rapper Ludacris to āpaint it black.ā Taxes to be increased to buy enough paint for the job plus spray-paint for graffiti.
THIRD WORLD COUNTRIES: Raise taxes to send $845 billion, most of it to Africa so the Obama family there can skim off enough for them to free their goats and live the American Dream.
NATIONAL ANTHEM: Change to the āBlack National Anthemā by James Weldon Johnson. And raise taxes.
"When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. Weāre proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over the years, either." Trent Lott Thurmond had based his presidential campaign largely on an explicit States Rights platform that challenged the Civil Rights Movement and later, the Civil Rights Act as illegally overturning the Separation of powers under the United States Constitution
"Macaca" George Allen
"I'd retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 Train to the ballpark looking like you're riding through Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS, right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time, right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing... The biggest thing I don't like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?" John Rocker
"**** the Jews. They don't vote for us anyway." James Baker to George Bush Sr. in 1992
"There are more American Indians alive today than there were when Columbus arrived or at any other time in history. Does this sound like a record of genocide?" --Rush Limbaugh
āMarriage is not a civil right. Youāre not black.ā Ann Coulter
āSheās a f**king raghead. We got a raghead in Washington; we donāt need one in South Carolina. Sheās a raghead thatās ashamed of her religion trying to hide it behind being Methodist for political reasons.ā āSouth Carolina State Sen. Jake Knotts (R)
āMy grandmother was not a highly educated woman, but she told me as a small child to quit feeding stray animals. You know why? Because they breed. Youāre facilitating the problem if you give an animal or a person ample food supply. They will reproduce, especially ones that donāt think too much further than that. And so what youāve got to do is youāve got to curtail that type of behavior. They donāt know any better.ā āSouth Carolina Lt. Gov. Andre Baue
"We should replace bilingual education with immersion in English so people learn the common language of the country and they learn the language of prosperity, not the language of living in a ghetto.ā Newt
āāWe donāt think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. Thatās true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.ā Ron Paul
āGiven the inefficiencies of what DC laughingly calls the criminal justice system, I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal. These arenāt my figures, that is the assumption you can gather fromā the report.ā Ron Paul
āContrary to the claims of the supporters of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the sponsors of H.Res. 676, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 did not improve race relations or enhance freedom. Instead, the forced integration dictated by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 increased racial tensions while diminishing individual liberty.ā Ron Paul
āI wouldnāt vote against getting rid of the Jim Crow laws.ā Ron Paul
āOpinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action.ā Ron Paul
The best indication and explanation is the following from factcheck.org
Blacks mostly voted Republican from after the Civil War and through the early part of the 20th century. Thatās not surprising when one considers that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, and the white, segregationist politicians who governed Southern states in those days were Democrats. The Democratic Party didnāt welcome blacks then, and it wasnāt until 1924 that blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity. Most blacks lived in the South, where they were mostly prevented from voting at all.
The election of Roosevelt in 1932 marked the beginning of a change. He got 71 percent of the black vote for president in 1936 and did nearly that well in the next two elections, according to historical figures kept by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. But even then, the number of blacks identifying themselves as Republicans was about the same as the number who thought of themselves as Democrats.
It wasnāt until Harry Truman garnered 77 percent of the black vote in 1948 that a majority of blacks reported that they thought of themselves as Democrats. Earlier that year Truman had issued an order desegregating the armed services and an executive order setting up regulations against racial bias in federal employment.
Even after that, Republican nominees continued to get a large slice of the black vote for several elections. Dwight D. Eisenhower got 39 percent in 1956, and Richard Nixon got 32 percent in his narrow loss to John F. Kennedy in 1960.
But then President Lyndon B. Johnson pushed through the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 (outlawing segregation in public places) and his eventual Republican opponent, Sen. Barry Goldwater, opposed it. Johnson got 94 percent of the black vote that year, still a record for any presidential election.
The following year Johnson signed the 1965 Voting Rights Act. No Republican presidential candidate has gotten more than 15 percent of the black vote since.
