Rachel Maddow - Echoes of Confederacy seen in tea party

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1. the tea party is the modern confederacy

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2. THIS is exactly why Alan Grayson should never apologize for his remarks.

K&R.

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3. Instead of telling Alan to retract his comments, demand the Tea Party disavow the Klan.

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4. Disavow the Klan? Nah, that too easy for them.

I'd rather see them disavow racist voter ID laws.

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5. Might as well ask them to give women the vote.

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Like I said, disavowing the Klan is too easy for them

In 1984, President Reagan received an endorsement for his re-election from the Klan. The architects of the GOP Southern Strategy wasting no time disavowing it. The Republicans disavowed the Klan and trumpeted the disavowal as a virtue. The MSM, already in the tank for Reagan and, in fact, still in it, went along and made sure everybody knew the Reagan re-election campaign and the GOP had disavowed the endorsement of the Ku Klux Klan.

Not once in 1984 did I hear anyone ask what Reagan might have done to get the Klan's endorsement in first place.

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7. Everyone already knew. His choice of where to announce.