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AP article, Tenn.

Hart, 60, vows if elected to work toward keeping "less favored races" from reproducing or immigrating to the United States. In campaign literature, Hart contends that "poverty genes" threaten to turn the United States into "one big Detroit."

read the full article here (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=536&e=5&u=/ap/20040806/ap_on_el_ho/eugenics_candidate)

This is a good reminder of the kind of things some radical Republicans still stand for. I'd like to see this guy get a lot of press this election.

it is interesting that the most radical voices of the right-wing talk about "hate" and the most radical voices of the left-wing talk about "peace".

[republicantx]

Apparently, the GOP made a statement saying some of the Democratic Senators who refused to honor Dr. Condaleeza Rice's nomination as Secretary of State were doing so because of racial bias. Do I think this is true? Absolutely. Would the Republicans do the same thing if the situation were in reverse? Probably. What make it all so ridiculous is Sen. Robert Byrd(Democrap-KKK-WV) saying that he is shocked that the Republicans would make such a claim. This is the man who was a Grand Wizard in the KKK. This is the man who filibustered againt Civil Rights. Way to go West Virginia.

[the_liberal_weiner_warrior]

Colin Powell was an African American, and he was ushered in unanimously by both sides. Look it up if you think I am bullshitting you. Also: The KKK is an uber-conservative white supremist group that shares ideologies with those of the past Confederates. You can also feel free to look that one up, too, and please show me if I am wrong.

[republicantx]

The KKK was started by DEMOCRATS after the Civil War to oppose emancipation and to keep the African Americans from voting, because they voted republican. What does this have to do with Robert KKK Byrd.

Any other brainbusters

[RedHeadLiberal]

The KKK was started by DEMOCRATS after the Civil War to oppose emancipation and to keep the African Americans from voting, because they voted republican. What does this have to do with Robert KKK Byrd.

Any other brainbusters


If I am correct, the main positions of the democratic and republican parties have swapped since then.

[the_liberal_weiner_warrior]

You are absolutely correct. The current democratic party was called the Federalist party. The current conservatives were the Democratic party. The Republican party came, won, and unoficially merged with the then-entitled Democratic party, becoming the modern-day Republican party we know and love. The Federalists became the Democrats, and I think that is all I remember from my high school freshman civics class. Thanks for the reminder, RedHead. :)

[republicantx]

Well then, look at it this way. You like to shift blame when it is convenient. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 DEPENDED on the republicans, because the democrats did not want it to pass. Al Gore's father voted against it.

[JamesP]

Nobody...not even our friend, Repub, actually believes that Democrats tend more toward racism than Republicans today.... The rural south isn't voting Republican because they passionately support equal rights and opportunities for black people.... and 90% of Blacks don't vote Democratic because they want people in government who will discriminate against them. Let's get real. What's the point here?
Even Repub would admit that the Republican party is largely characterized by overindulgent, affluent, golf playing, SUV drivin', self-absorbed, pasty, suburban white people who can't dance, keep guns in their drawer next to their bible, are highly homophobic (yet often wake up terrified after having homosexual wet dreams) and feel calm, relaxed, powerful and manly after they splatter a rabbit in the woods with a giant shotgun.

[mikeike]

G.O.P. lies about their Record on Civil Rights :
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Final Vote - June 19 Vote: 73 to 27
(51 votes needed for passage)

The use by Republicans of this vote is a perfect illustration of the dictum that "Statistics don't lie, but liars use statistics." Have you ever wondered why they never refer you to the data upon which their claims are supposedly based? we will give you that data, (from the C-Span website) because we are not out to misinform you; and we want you to see for yourself the truthfulness of our claims.
The Republicans claim that their party has a better record on race relations than the Democratic Party because, they say "81% of Republican Senators voted for the Civil Rights bill, vs. 69% of Democratic Senators."
Anybody who knows anything about the political scene of those days, as opposed to the political scene today, knows that what was called "the Democratic Party" in those days had two diametrically opposed parts, the extremely Conservative "Dixiecrats" of the former Confederate states, who would soon split away from the other part of the party in the rest of the country, which was much more Liberal. It is those Christian Conservative "Dixiecrats" who voted unanimously against all Civil Rights legislation. It is precisely because the bigotry of these Southern Christian Conservatives did not fit with the newfound liberalism of the Democratic Party in the rest of the country, that they first became "the Dixiecrats" and then not only joined the Republican Party , but actually come to dominate the Republican Party and to imbue it with its Southern Christian Conservative stamp. Just look at who has been leading the Republican Party of late:

When you look at the raw data yourself, what you find is that :

Of the "Democrats" who voted against that monumental Civil Rights bill, every last one was a "DIXIECRAT" representing a former Confederate states, states that were so unhappy with the Democratic Party's embrace of Civil Rights for blacks at that stage of American history that it would soon replace all of its Democratic representatives who weren't racist enough to satisfy their intense bigotry with REPUBLICANS who WERE!
While there was not a SINGLE Senator representing the states we now recognize as Democratics seats. ( i.e. outside of the former Confederate states) to vote against Civil Rights, there were SIX Republican Senators outside of Dixie who opposed the Civil Right bill, and one of these, Sen. Barry Goldwater, was thought of so highly by his Republican Party that it rewarded him that very year with its highest honor, the nomination for the Presidency ! And one of those who ran for Congress that year as a Goldwater Republican and campaigned against the Civil Rights Act was George H. W. Bush.


The votes in favor of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill :
Democratic Yeas: 47
Clinton Anderson (D-NM)
Bob Bartlett (D-AK)
Birch Bayh (D-IN)
Alan Bible (D-NV)
Daniel Brewster (D-MD)
Quentin Burdick (D-ND)
Howard Cannon (D-ND)
Frank Church (D-ID)
Joseph Clark (D-PA)
Thomas Dodd (D-CT)
Paul Douglas (D-IL)
James Edmondson (D-OK)
Clair Engle (D-CA)
Ernest Gruening (D-AK)
Philip Hart (D-MI)
Vance Hartke (D-IN)
Carl Hayden (D-AZ)
Hubert Humphrey (D-MN)
Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Henry Jackson (D-WA)
Edward M. Kennedy (D-MA)
Frank Lausche (D-OH)
Edward Long (D-MO)
Warren Magnuson (D-WA)
Mike Mansfield (D-MT)
Eugene McCarthy (D-MN)
Gale McGee (D-WY)
George McGovern (D-SD)
Thomas McIntyre (D-NH)
Patrick McNamara (D-MI)
Lee Metcalf (D-MT)
Mike Monroney (D-OK)
Wayne Morse (D-OR)
Frank Moss (D-UT)
Edmund Muskie (D-ME)
Gaylord Nelson (D-WI)
Maurine Neuberger (D-OR)
John Pastore (D-RI)
Claiborne Pell (D-RI)
William Proxmire (D-WI)
Jennings Randolph (D-WV)
Abe Ribicoff (D-CT)
Stuart Symington (D-MO)
Harrison Williams (D-NJ)
Ralph Yarborough (D-TX)
Stephen Young (D-OH) Not ONE Dixiecrat in favor Republican Yeas: 26
George Aiken (R-VT)
Gordon Allott (R-CO)
Glenn Beall (R-MD)
Wallace Bennett (R-UT)
Caleb Boggs (R-DE)
Frank Carlson (R-KS)
Clifford Case (R-NJ)
John S. Cooper (R-KY)
Carl Curtis (R-NE)
Everett Dirksen (R-IL)
Peter Dominick (R-CO)
Hiram Fong (R-HI)
Roman Hruska (R-NE)
Jacob Javits (R-NY)
Leonard Jordan (R-ID)
Kenneth Keating (R-NY)
Thomas Kuchel (R-CA)
Jack Miller (R-IA)
Thruston Morton (R-KY)
Karl Mundt (R-SD)
James Pearson (R-KS)
Winston Prouty (R-VT)
Leverett Saltonstall (R-MA)
Hugh Scott (R-PA)
Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME)
John Williams (R-DE)
Milton Young (R-ND)
The votes against the 1964 Civil Rights Bill came entirely from the Dixiecrats of the former Confederate states on the Democratic side, with 6 Republicans from outside of Dixie joining the opposition.
Democratic Nays:1
Robert Byrd (D-WV) Dixiecrat Nays: 20
Harry Byrd (D-VA)
James Eastland (D-MS)
Allen Ellender (D-LA)
Sam Ervin (D-NC)
William Fulbright (D-AR)
Albert Gore Sr. (D-TN)
Lister Hill (D-AL)
Spessard Holland (D-FL)
Olin Johnston (D-SC)
Everett Jordan (D-NC)
Russell Long (D-LA)
John McClellan (D-AR)
Willis Robertson (D-VA)
Richard Russell (D-GA)
George Smathers (D-FL)
John Sparkman (D-AL)
John Stennis (D-MS)
Herman Talmadge (D-GA)
Strom Thurmond (D-SC)
Herbert Walters (D-TN)
Republican Nays: 6
Norris Cotton (R-NH)
Barry Goldwater (R-AZ)
Bourke Hickenlooper (R-IA)
Edwin Mechem (R-NM)
Milward Simpson (R-WY)
John Tower (R-TX)