Max Boot: 'Vote straight-ticket Democratic Party -- the GOP needs to be razed to the ground'

[DonViejo]

[Guppy]

1. Reagan not involved in Racist imagery

Philadelphia MS announcement of States Rights
welfare cadillacs
bucks getting steaks on Food stamps.

BULLSHIT

[dalton99a]

2. But the great man gave us the MLK Holiday!

While campaigning for Jimmy Carter on the eve of the 1980 presidential election, King’s widow Coretta Scott King said she was “scared that if Ronald Reagan gets into office, we are going to see more of the Ku Klux Klan and a resurgence of the Nazi Party.” King’s trepidation was not unwarranted. Reagan built his political career on a foundation of anti-black civil rights. He opposed the Civil Rights Act in 1964, calling it “a bad piece of legislation.” A year later he came out against the Voting Rights Act, which he deemed “humiliating to the South.” During his 1966 California gubernatorial campaign, he defended the Golden State’s Proposition 14, which passed in 1964 and nullified the state’s fair housing law, effectively reinstating the right to discriminate in home sales and leases. “If an individual wants to discriminate against Negroes or others in selling or renting his house,” Reagan insisted, “it is his right to do so.” A Reagan campaign ad that same year referred to black neighborhoods as “jungles.”

Reagan never really believed King deserved a federal holiday, and the establishment of the memorialization was on its surface a hard-won victory for King’s supporters. Civil rights leaders faced immense opposition from both congress and the president in the years leading up to its passing. In October of 1983, for example, when the bill reached the senate floor, North Carolina senator Jesse Helms filibustered it, condemning King’s “calculated use of nonviolence as a provocative act,” and insisting he was a communist.

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http://bostonreview.net/race-politics/justin-gomer-christopher-petrella-reagan-used-mlk-day-undermine-racial-justice

[Trust Buster]

3. Max Boot was 100% correct.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. I watched him this morning and he was absolutely spot on!

Shows where we are now that I agree 100% with an avowed conservative from the USSR, LOL. He said to vote a straight Democratic ticket! I'm on board and have already been passing that advice forward...

[KelleyKramer]

5. He said the same thing on Lawrence show tonight

Sounds like he is on a mission