The way I remember it, the National GOP was shocked when they started dealing with him and realized what he was.
That was well after he won that state election.
GHWBush repeatedly made the point that Duke was lying about his past.
Duke's story was that he was born again and had repudiated his racist past.
Why do you think he claimed to have repudiated his racist past?, Even running in the Deep South?
Why do you think that after the National Party publicly disavowed him and ran against him, and worked to widely spread information on his racist past that he lost and never won again, even in the Deep South?
You're saying the Democrats figured out how racist he is but Republicans couldn't until they elected him.
His past affiliations with the KKK were well known.
I did not say that.
This is what I said, of which you addressed nothing.
The way I remember it, the National GOP was shocked when they started dealing with him and realized what he was.
That was well after he won that state election.
GHWBush repeatedly made the point that Duke was lying about his past.
Duke's story was that he was born again and had repudiated his racist past.
Why do you think he claimed to have repudiated his racist past?, Even running in the Deep South?
Why do you think that after the National Party publicly disavowed him and ran against him, and worked to widely spread information on his racist past that he lost and never won again, even in the Deep South?