The Liberal Media Attacks!........ State Schools?!?!

[Trainer Monkey]

Pushing civil rights doesn't make someone liberal, neither does making the highway system.

Sure Ike taxed people but he believed a free market should run itself UNLIKE a true liberal.

I'm sick to death of people touting the Democrats' record of race relations....Trainer, Robert C. Byrd (DEMOCRAT) is the Senior Senator of West Virginia and he was in the Ku Klux Klan and it's not like that's the one bad apple of the Democrat Party.....they have had a HISTORY of racists

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Except Byrd apologized
You walked right in to that one Lyle

[El Kabong]

There are a larger group that didn't appologize and since you've tried to dig through history instead of just bringing up David Duke.


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That's just the All-Star selection of racist Democrats....would Barack Obama have voted for any of those dudes

[killersheep]

While more times than not I completely disagree with Lyle, I think it's very important to question the government and I commend him for doing so.

I disagree that political activist is an exclusive liberal term however, Bin Laden is very conservative yet he is a political activist, most state militia's could be considered political activists and they are also conservative. Indeed further, lobbyists define political activism, and they run the entire spectrum of political affiliation.

[Trainer Monkey]

There are a larger group that didn't appologize and since you've tried to dig through history instead of just bringing up David Duke.


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Orval Faubus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


That's just the All-Star selection of racist Democrats....would Barack Obama have voted for any of those dudes

Damn you missed Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond
Oh wait,they changed parties or something right?

[El Kabong]

Strom changed parties....Jesse was a life long Republican AND a card carrying member of the ACLU

[Trainer Monkey]

Strom changed parties....Jesse was a life long Republican AND a card carrying member of the ACLU

Why do you keep doing this to yourself Lyle?

Helms' first full-time job after college was as a sports reporter with The Raleigh Times.[23] During World War II, Helms served stateside as a recruiter in the United States Navy. After the war, he pursued his twin interests, journalism and politics (at that time, within the Democratic Party). Helms became the city news editor of The Raleigh Times and later moved to radio and television.

[El Kabong]

Helms himself never ran as anything other than a Republican....although I am aware of the fact that he helped a Democrat beat up on Franklin Porter Graham

[Trainer Monkey]

Helms himself never ran as anything other than a Republican....although I am aware of the fact that he helped a Democrat beat up on Franklin Porter Graham

And Trent Lott never technically ran as a Dixiecrat,here's the wall Lyle,here's you repeatedly running in to it.

[Kirkland Laing]

There are a larger group that didn't appologize and since you've tried to dig through history instead of just bringing up David Duke.


Bull Connor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Wallace - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Orval Faubus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


That's just the All-Star selection of racist Democrats....would Barack Obama have voted for any of those dudes

The Democrats used to have all the Southern segregationist/racist politicians and used to win the southern States in elections the way the GOP do now. Then they backed a civil rights agenda and told all the southerners to sign up to it or leave the party. Some like Byrd signed up to it but a bunch couldn't face giving black folks equal rights and left and joined the GOP, who became the party of the south instead of the Democrats.

[El Kabong]

Kirkland, what's better ACTING like you care or treating everyone the same?

[Kirkland Laing]

Kirkland, what's better ACTING like you care or treating everyone the same?

Any southern Dixiecrat who signed up to the civil rights agenda knowing it could inevitably cost them reelection clearly was not "acting like they cared," they were actually showing courage. Similarly guys like Thurmond who didn't sign up and instead joined the GOP so that they didn't have to agree to equal rights for coloured folks were not "treating everyone the same."

[El Kabong]

While you are partly correct you are also wrong as well.

Lots of Southern families didn't leave the Democrat Party as they had have a history with the Party and so they just played along and at the local level they really didn't have to follow the National movement.

The KKK was spawned from Democrats

[Kirkland Laing]

While you are partly correct you are also wrong as well.

Lots of Southern families didn't leave the Democrat Party as they had have a history with the Party and so they just played along and at the local level they really didn't have to follow the National movement.

The KKK was spawned from Democrats

Yes, the south was still chock full of racist pliticians even after the civil rights act was passed. But the fact remains that the Democrats supported it and the GOP opposed it. So even though those politicians were still sorry human beings they still did at least one correct, courageous thing in their careers. And the Democrats paid the political p[rice for doing so too, the GOP now being dominant in the south.