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my late uncle was a republican, but finally came to his senses before he died. he used to go to the coventions and one year, he had to take a bus, for some reason. One of other my other uncles joked that they'd make him ride in tbe back of the bus 
the black republicon is an oddity, like the platypus 
I remember when Harry Flood Byrd closed the public schools in VA because he would not tolerate segregation.
I thought we as a nation had come a long way since those dark days. The election of BHO proved me wrong
Their half assed attempt to shut down the government failed miserably. New Jersey just became the fourteenth state to legalize gay marriage. Washington DC is trying to get a living wage bill passed. Rush Limbaugh lost hundreds of millions in advertising revenue. Hate no longer sells the way it used to. The tides are indeed turning! 
...Nixon followed the ''Southern Strategy'' recipe. This is just what happens to the end product after it's allowed to sit unrefrigerated in the South for 45 years. Like bacteria in a petri dish, the bacteria simply multiplied and mutated until became the cancer that we know today:
Teabagger Recipe
1 - Flagging conservative political party
1 - Bowl full of dog-whistles (heavy on the law & order, states rights and traditional families)
4 to 5 - Racists in democratically held southern states who're willing to switch parties
1 - Mixed in a plethora of fruits and nuts from the NRA and the rising moral-minority church-ponzi schemes, along with some secret members of the John Birchers and the KKK.
1 - Eyes of newt (George Wallace) as a garnish to attract the non-readers
Stir and shake vigorously, and then place into a baking hot summer, with high inflation, no jobs, civil disorder, burning city buildings in the ghettos of America, nightly news pictures of parents marching against or trying to destroy school buses so their kids don't have to look at black kids up close. And finally, top it all off with a few (un)timely deaths (domestic assassinations), and voila!
- You've created what we call today, a disgustingly aromatic Teabagger Souflat......
K&R
Irish, when I first joined, almost a year ago. But I decided to hang on, despite some unpleasant moments, and I'm glad I did. It's still better than anything else on-line and a thousand times better than HuffPo (bleeeeeech!)
You're partly the reason for that decision because of a very sweet post you made to me, awhile back. Thanks 
Response to sheshe2 (Original post)
Dontcha think, give creds where creds are due, dontcha think? 
are the most radical.................... Can anyone say, "oxymoron" ??? 
She, you always find the best stuff to post! 
Thanks again, dear friend! 
