Those Repigs will try anything to destort history and current facts that confuses the population into their empty stately falsehoods for personal gains.

Told about the billboards, the Rev. Joseph Lowery let out a soft chuckle that grew stronger as he began to think more about the idea.

"These guys never give up, do they?" said Lowery, who co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with King. "Lord have mercy."

Seven billboards have gone up in six Florida counties, and another in Orangeburg, S.C., said Frances Rice, the Republican group's chairwoman. Part of its mission is to highlight what she said is the Democratic Party's racist past.

"I knew the King family well. We were all Republicans," said Rice, 64. "There was no way Dr. King would have wanted to be in the party of the Ku Klux Klan."

Her assertion angered state Rep. Joe Gibbons, a Democrat who chairs the Florida Legislative Black Caucus.

"Nobody knew who was leading the Ku Klux Klan, they had sheets over their heads. Was she at the cross burning meetings?" Gibbons said with a disgust that was just as strong when he talked about the billboards. "To make a statement like that is ridiculous. To make a claim without presenting proof is bogus."

The King Center in Atlanta says there is no proof that King was ever a Republican. Rice stands by her claim.

For anyone who thought the Republicans wouldn’t use race as an issue in the ‘08 election, think again. The lowest common denominator is always in play for the party thats hemorrhaging members and on its way out. As I read this 2006 article by Dave Johnson at The Huffington Post I found that the NBRA and other associated groups have quite a history of hackery and controversy. Their chairwoman is a plagiarist, the group lost 7 of its 10 board members after members gave glowing reviews to President Bush for his handling of Hurricane Katrina, and many of their offices are nothing more than P.O. boxes and motel rooms set up for ready made, hit-and-run hideouts. Here’s all you need to know about these GOP front groups:

Here’s how the cynical process works. Your opponent is strong and you are weak in a certain area - in this case it is about strong African-American support for Democrats and a Republican race problem making its way into the news. To fight this you set up a front group that is designed to drive a wedge into the core of their support while providing “cover” to deflect attention from you. And to get this done you say anything - whatever is necessary to trick the voters into thinking their interests are served by your cause. So in this case the front-group Black Republican Freedom Fund is set up to run ads in urban areas that say, “Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan,” “Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks” and “Democrats blocked the minimum wage passed by Republicans.” Read on…

I dunno, man. I think it was a Republican Congress & Senate that passed the Civil Rights Bill. It just happened to be a Democrat who signed it into law because Johnson beat out Goldwater.

So what was really going on back then? The Republicans love to say they passed the Civil Rights Bill...so, when Johnson signed it into law, why did Johnson say as he put down his pen, "We have lost the South for a generation."? Didn't those racist Dixiecrat know MLK was a Republican? Were they too stupid to know that the Republicans supported the Civil Right act more than Dems?

In 1964 both Houses of Congress were controlled by Democrats.



The Republicans can not take credit for passing the Civil Rights Act as they were NOT in the majority. There were Republicans who voted in favor of the legislation, which helped it pass. They helped, but they are not responsible for it. Per ususal the GOP are distorting the facts to fit their agenda.

The Dems were in control of Congress. The Party in control of Congress is responsible for establishing the legislative agenda and moving it through Congress. It was the Dems who've been at the receiving end of the Civil Rights Act backlash the last 40+ years with Nixon's Southern Strategy.

For the Republicans to come in trying to take credit for a piece of legistlation that they have used against the Democrats for decades is the worst kind of hypocrisy. In fact we need a new word for the kind of hypocrisy the Republican Party engages in on a daily basis.

This is a good sign. They are so desperate, they're making billboard-sized lies.

But the Dems themselves were more divided on this issue than the Repukes.

There was a time when the Republican Party in the South was the only political outlet for Black Americans.

No Black would (or was allowed to) be a Democrat, which was the Enclave of the Last of the Confederacy.

Around the FDR days, things flipped, and there was an uneasy truce between Black Democrats and Southern White Democrats.

Nixon set out to flip the Southern White Democrats.

So, for King to be a Republican, I wouldn't be surprised. But to be THIS kind of Republican, nowadays, I don't think so.

This is a good sign. They are so desperate, they're making billboard-sized lies.

The speech was a reflection of King's evolving political advocacy in his later years, which paralleled the teachings of the progressive Highlander Research and Education Center, with whom King was affiliated.[80] King began to speak of the need for fundamental changes in the political and economic life of the nation. Toward the end of his life, King more frequently expressed his opposition to the war and his desire to see a redistribution of resources to correct racial and economic injustice.[81] Though his public language was guarded, so as to avoid being linked to communism by his political enemies, in private he sometimes spoke of his support for democratic socialism. In one speech, he stated that "something is wrong with capitalism" and claimed, "There must be a better distribution of wealth, and maybe America must move toward a democratic socialism."[82]

I dunno, man. I think it was a Republican Congress & Senate that passed the Civil Rights Bill. It just happened to be a Democrat who signed it into law because Johnson beat out Goldwater.

So what was really going on back then? The Republicans love to say they passed the Civil Rights Bill...so, when Johnson signed it into law, why did Johnson say as he put down his pen, "We have lost the South for a generation."? Didn't those racist Dixiecrat know MLK was a Republican? Were they too stupid to know that the Republicans supported the Civil Right act more than Dems?


I think if MLK were alive today and politically active, there is no way he's be a registered Republican. He'd have been too liberal for the Republcan party of today.

But to be THIS kind of Republican, nowadays, I don't think so.

We need to get pictures of Regan and put "Regan WAS a Democrat" on them -- because it's at least true, before he got all mentally ill he was a unionist and a Democrat.

But would the Democrat Party want to be associated or connected to Ronald Reagan? That may hurt more than help. Especially with the ever looming Iran Contra Affair.

There was a time when the Republican Party in the South was the only political outlet for Black Americans.

No Black would (or was allowed to) be a Democrat, which was the Enclave of the Last of the Confederacy.

Around the FDR days, things flipped, and there was an uneasy truce between Black Democrats and Southern White Democrats.

Nixon set out to flip the Southern White Democrats.

So, for King to be a Republican, I wouldn't be surprised. But to be THIS kind of Republican, nowadays, I don't think so.

It's DemocratIC Party, not Democrat Party.

Could you explain this DemocratIC Party? I've not heard of the Democrat 'IC' party before.

Oh ic, the poster meant Democratic party. Why didn't they say so???

Anyways, isn't the Democrat party and the Democratic party basically the same thing?

Um, MLK was actually a socialist.




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther...the_Vietnam_War

Yeah, that's what I thought...conservative, spiritual, socialist, it was that sort of talk that got him killed.

It was then we learned the Constitution was "just a g_d d-mn piece of paper"as far as the Corporatists were concerned.

The term Democrat Party was coined by the Republicans as a slur because it subconsciously emphasis the "rat" part instead of Democratic.

The term Democrat Party was coined by the Republicans as a slur because it subconsciously emphasis the "rat" part instead of Democratic.

Yep

It's quite corny too

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democrat_Party_(phrase)

the term can also be found in less partisan media. Media Matters for America, a progressive organization that monitors the media, found "Democrat Party" used (in isolated instances) by CNN, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, and the Associated Press.[16]

I honestly didn't know that. So now, what Democrats must do today is refer to themselves as Democratic and not as Democrats because the Repubs have coined the word Democrats that blames the Democrats for putting the emphasis on the word rat as to represent a slur? Is that correct?

I feel that any individual has the right to use the word Democrat any which way that they are comfortable with.

Sure...and I have the right to call Koreans "gooks" like some prominent political leaders. It's just not smart or cool.

I honestly didn't know that.

Absolutely..... you have that right to call Koreans, "gooks" but for one to call another culture such a derogatory slang word is a lot more drastic than using the word Democrat.

It also seems that Bush has been using the word Democratic a lot more lately too. Since this subject of the use of the word Democrat has come up in this thread, it makes me think about how the Republicans have once again convinced the left to become this self conscience of the word Democrat enough to change it to Democratic.

Just because Bush trains the Democrats to use the word Democratic or consider themselves as democratic, I'll not do it. I don't and will not agree in that the Republicans are democratic nor will I fall for their trickery playing such word games.

Otherwise, I agree. So now it is a matter of degrees of insensitivity and rudeness that we discuss. How much rudeness should we allow?

huh?

Counter Billboard:

MLK was a Liberal.
What happened to republicans?