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How long until the first spontaneous Ku Klux Klan meeting breaks out at the GOP debate tonight? (Original Post) NNN0LHI Jan 2012 OP
When the second person walks through the door? XemaSab Jan 2012 #1
+1 baldguy Jan 2012 #3
+1 uponit7771 Jan 2012 #14
unrec. emilyg Jan 2012 #2
Standing Ovation for racist comments is the new pointy hood NAO Jan 2012 #4
Exactly. Raffi Ella Jan 2012 #13
Teaparty dumb Thinkingabout Jan 2012 #5
Not likely to happen any time soon. The last time the KKK had much influence on a party was... slackmaster Jan 2012 #6
Wrong bongbong Jan 2012 #7
That's not even close to actual influence. Anyone can do that. slackmaster Jan 2012 #8
Wrong again! bongbong Jan 2012 #9
David Duke is to the GOP what Cynthia McKinney is to our party slackmaster Jan 2012 #11
Keep trying! bongbong Jan 2012 #12
Reagan opened his 1984 campaign in Philidelphia, MS, because he want to appeal only EFerrari Jan 2012 #15
If your point was even partly correct kctim Jan 2012 #19
A Party can't help who runs and wins in its primaries Ter Jan 2012 #20
I'd like you to meet Ron Paul Hugabear Jan 2012 #17
They'll be tail-gating before it even starts. FarLeftFist Jan 2012 #10
Palin used to wear a pin that was a version of this image EFerrari Jan 2012 #16
CBC: call the SC Tea Party convention ... what it was: a white political event. pampango Jan 2012 #18
This is probably still applicable NNN0LHI Jan 2012 #21
T - 40 years ago. You can't spell TeaPubliKlan without Klan. TheKentuckian Jan 2012 #22

NAO

(3,425 posts)
4. Standing Ovation for racist comments is the new pointy hood
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 08:37 PM
Jan 2012

When Newt embraced his racist derogatory comments about black people and food stamps, and at the same time put a black moderator "in his place" on MLK day...and then gets a huge standing ovation, that's a pretty good indicator.

Who knew Nixon's "Southern Strategy" aka Reagan's "Welfare Queen narrative" would work so well?

Raffi Ella

(4,465 posts)
13. Exactly.
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:11 PM
Jan 2012

With Ron Paul the Racist on the stage as a Presidential Candidate, along with Newt whistling to the racists with his rhetoric, there doesn't need to be a formal meeting of the KKK; It's implied, always. And they know exactly what they're doing and the media never calls them on it. It's shameful, a disgrace to the nation.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
5. Teaparty dumb
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 08:39 PM
Jan 2012

Misspelled signs, pointed hats goes together so well. The GOP was willing to do anything to win and now they have the grand prize, the Teaparty. Hope they enjoy.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
6. Not likely to happen any time soon. The last time the KKK had much influence on a party was...
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 08:40 PM
Jan 2012

...in the early part of the 20th Century.

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
8. That's not even close to actual influence. Anyone can do that.
Mon Jan 23, 2012, 11:36 PM
Jan 2012

I hope you don't forget the lessons of history. If you haven't watched Ken Burns' 3-part documentary on Prohibition, you should.

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
9. Wrong again!
Tue Jan 24, 2012, 03:51 PM
Jan 2012

Funny you bring up the Red Herring of a TV series on Prohibition. After Duke won a seat in the House, one of his pet issues was drug testing for welfare recipients.

Guess what policy is actively talked about & taken seriously by repigs these days?

 

slackmaster

(60,567 posts)
11. David Duke is to the GOP what Cynthia McKinney is to our party
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 12:03 PM
Jan 2012

He's held in high regard only by a radical fringe. I'm sure that most Republicans regard him as an embarrassment and find many of his opinions repugnant just as most of us do.

Anyone who is eligible to vote can join either party, and unless unqualified can run for any partisan office.

My comment about the Prohibition series is not a red herring at all if you pay attention to the role that KKK influence played in support for the Volstead Act. At one time a large segment of one party saw nothing wrong with being a Klansman. Its influence fell off after the 1920s, but didn't go away completely even into the 1960s.

 

bongbong

(5,436 posts)
12. Keep trying!
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 02:58 PM
Jan 2012

> I'm sure that most Republicans regard him as an embarrassment and find many of his opinions repugnant just as most of us do.

Going by the evidence of tens, if not hundreds of thousands of repigs who openly display KKK-like symbols & verbiage at the fact of Obama being president, your idea can only be a fact if you maintain a strict definition of "most" as ">50.000001%". Since "influence on a party" doesn't need ">50.000001%" participation, my original point stands.


> My comment about the Prohibition series is not a red herring at all if you pay attention to the role that KKK influence played in support for the Volstead Act.

You're kidding, right? The prohibitionist movement started in America in the 1830s, and gained steam steadily for decades. On one hand you dismiss the influence of Duke (and other KKK members who weren't as prominent) on the GOP, and then trumpet some connection (your Red Herring) that has little historical evidence.


Keep trying!

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
15. Reagan opened his 1984 campaign in Philidelphia, MS, because he want to appeal only
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:21 PM
Jan 2012

to the radical fringe, of course.

 

kctim

(3,575 posts)
19. If your point was even partly correct
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:56 PM
Jan 2012

the Klan would have more than the estimated 5,000 members.

 

Ter

(4,281 posts)
20. A Party can't help who runs and wins in its primaries
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 04:28 PM
Jan 2012

In 1991 when Duke ran against the Democrat, even then-President George HW Bush said vote for the Democrat, as did the entire establishment.

Remember, a much more violent Klan member, Tom Metzger, ran and won the nomination as a Democrat around 1982. It's neither Party's fault.

EFerrari

(163,986 posts)
16. Palin used to wear a pin that was a version of this image
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:39 PM
Jan 2012


symbol of the Alaska Independence (white separatist) Party.

pampango

(24,692 posts)
18. CBC: call the SC Tea Party convention ... what it was: a white political event.
Wed Jan 25, 2012, 03:47 PM
Jan 2012

If 300-plus black political activists held a convention in the Deep South, and the invited speakers were black, it would inevitably, and correctly, be referred to as a black political event.

So I'm going to call the Tea Party convention I just covered in Myrtle Beach, S.C., what it was: a white political event.

... in a state that's 30 per cent black, there wasn't a single black face at the event. Or any young faces that I could see. That sort of homogeneity at least partly explains why the Tea Party is running out of steam in this heterogeneous nation.

Recent polls suggest that Americans' opinion of the hardline conservative movement has soured as they've learned more about it. Except in South Carolina.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/01/18/f-rfa-macdonald.html

The CBC is commenting on the SC tea party, but the tp crown seems to dominate the GOP debates.

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