PoliticalChic
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1. During the Bush years, the Democrat slogan was Dissent is patriotic. Under Obama, it became Dissent is racist. This is the pure moral preening of Liberals: calling others racists.
2. True, there had been actual struggles for civil rights for a century, but by the end of the 60s it was over. Segregationist violence was gone, all public places integrated .but not the opportunity for liberals to create an imaginary heroic past. In their minds, liberals manned the barricades, and marched for civil rights and still do!
3. Contrary to the myth that Democrats told about themselves, that they were the chest-thumping warriors for equal rights, the entire history of civil rights consists of Republicans battling Democrats to guarantee the constitutional rights of black people.
a. Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats! And there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party.
4. It was Republican Dwight Eisenhower who managed to take large parts of the South from Democrats in the 1952 presidential election. This included six House seats in Virginia, 10 in North Carolina, 1 in Florida, and 5 in Texas.
Michael Barone, Our County, p. 711.
a. He carried Tennessee, Virginia, Florida and Texas and came close in Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia. The South admired his war record; the Democrats dream team was Adlai Stevenson and Alabama segregationist John Sparkman.
b. Eisenhower put blacks in prominent positions, and moved to desegregate the military- Truman had done so partially. 82.03.04: An Analysis of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Legislated Response to Racial Discrimination in the U. S.
5. Eisenhower may have felt as
his fellow Republican and soldier Senator Charles Potter did when he stood
on crutches in the well of the Senatehe lost both legs in World War II
and denounced the Democrats for refusing to pass a civil rights bill. I
fought beside Negroes in the war, Potter said. I saw them die for us. For
the Senate of the United States to repay these valiant men . . . by a watereddown version of this legislation would make a mockery of the democratic concept we hold so dear. Web Extra: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Ann Coulters New Book - ABC News
6. In his second term, Eisenhower pushed through two major civil rights
laws and created the Civil Rights Commissionover the stubborn objections
of Democrats. Senator Lyndon Johnson warned his fellow segregationist
Democrats, Be ready to take up the goddamned nigra bill again.
Liberal hero, Senator Sam Ervin told his fellow segregationists, Im on
your side, not theirs, adding ruefully, weve got to give the goddamned
******* something. Ibid.
7. VP Nixon tried to get the 1957 Civil Rights Bill passed but LBJ stripped out enforcement provisions. Eisenhower introduced another, stronger civil rights bill in 1960. All eighteen votes against both bills were by Democrats. Of course, Johnson saw the handwriting on the wall.
8. Even with a Democratic President behind the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, a far greater percentage of Republicans (82%) voted for it than Democrats (66%). Nay votes included Ernest Hollings, Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, and Robert Byrd.
a. It is interesting that one reason that Nixon chose Spiro Agnew as VP, was that he had passed some of the nations first bans on racial discrimination in public housing- before federal laws. He had beaten Democrat segregationist George Mahoney for governor of Maryland in 1966.
9. So, the struggle ended: Thurgood Marshall had won his cases in the Supreme Court, Eisenhower used the military to enforce the victories, Nixon desegregated the schools and building trades, and Democrat Bull Connor was voted out of office by the people of Alabama. And, finally, even a majority of Democrats supported civil rights. Democrat segregationists were defeated.
This was the precise moment when liberals decided it was time to come out strongly against race discrimination!
From "Mugged," by Ann Coulter
2. True, there had been actual struggles for civil rights for a century, but by the end of the 60s it was over. Segregationist violence was gone, all public places integrated .but not the opportunity for liberals to create an imaginary heroic past. In their minds, liberals manned the barricades, and marched for civil rights and still do!
3. Contrary to the myth that Democrats told about themselves, that they were the chest-thumping warriors for equal rights, the entire history of civil rights consists of Republicans battling Democrats to guarantee the constitutional rights of black people.
a. Not all Democrats were segregationists, but all segregationists were Democrats! And there were enough of them to demand compliance from the rest of the party.
4. It was Republican Dwight Eisenhower who managed to take large parts of the South from Democrats in the 1952 presidential election. This included six House seats in Virginia, 10 in North Carolina, 1 in Florida, and 5 in Texas.
Michael Barone, Our County, p. 711.
a. He carried Tennessee, Virginia, Florida and Texas and came close in Kentucky, North Carolina, and West Virginia. The South admired his war record; the Democrats dream team was Adlai Stevenson and Alabama segregationist John Sparkman.
b. Eisenhower put blacks in prominent positions, and moved to desegregate the military- Truman had done so partially. 82.03.04: An Analysis of the Civil Rights Act of 1964: A Legislated Response to Racial Discrimination in the U. S.
5. Eisenhower may have felt as
his fellow Republican and soldier Senator Charles Potter did when he stood
on crutches in the well of the Senatehe lost both legs in World War II
and denounced the Democrats for refusing to pass a civil rights bill. I
fought beside Negroes in the war, Potter said. I saw them die for us. For
the Senate of the United States to repay these valiant men . . . by a watereddown version of this legislation would make a mockery of the democratic concept we hold so dear. Web Extra: Read an Exclusive Excerpt of Ann Coulters New Book - ABC News
6. In his second term, Eisenhower pushed through two major civil rights
laws and created the Civil Rights Commissionover the stubborn objections
of Democrats. Senator Lyndon Johnson warned his fellow segregationist
Democrats, Be ready to take up the goddamned nigra bill again.
Liberal hero, Senator Sam Ervin told his fellow segregationists, Im on
your side, not theirs, adding ruefully, weve got to give the goddamned
******* something. Ibid.
7. VP Nixon tried to get the 1957 Civil Rights Bill passed but LBJ stripped out enforcement provisions. Eisenhower introduced another, stronger civil rights bill in 1960. All eighteen votes against both bills were by Democrats. Of course, Johnson saw the handwriting on the wall.
8. Even with a Democratic President behind the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, a far greater percentage of Republicans (82%) voted for it than Democrats (66%). Nay votes included Ernest Hollings, Sam Ervin, Albert Gore, Sr., J. William Fulbright, and Robert Byrd.
a. It is interesting that one reason that Nixon chose Spiro Agnew as VP, was that he had passed some of the nations first bans on racial discrimination in public housing- before federal laws. He had beaten Democrat segregationist George Mahoney for governor of Maryland in 1966.
9. So, the struggle ended: Thurgood Marshall had won his cases in the Supreme Court, Eisenhower used the military to enforce the victories, Nixon desegregated the schools and building trades, and Democrat Bull Connor was voted out of office by the people of Alabama. And, finally, even a majority of Democrats supported civil rights. Democrat segregationists were defeated.
This was the precise moment when liberals decided it was time to come out strongly against race discrimination!
From "Mugged," by Ann Coulter