Posted on 05/02/2024 8:53:18 AM PDT by RandFan
The following is an excerpt from Tulsi Gabbard's new book, For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind, published by Regnery and out April 30.
As we sat on the bus traveling through Alabama, stopping at several historically significant sites of the Civil Rights Movement in Alabama, John Lewis and some of his fellow Freedom Riders shared firsthand accounts of what they experienced.
About 600 people, most of them Black, lined up on one side of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, named after the last Confederate general to serve in the U.S. Senate, who was also the leader of the Alabama Ku Klux Klan. Their plan was to march more than 50 miles to the Alabama state capitol in Montgomery and demand that Governor George Wallace protect Black Alabamans' right to vote. Wallace had gotten wind of this plan ahead of time, however, and declared that "a march cannot and will not be tolerated," adding that it was his duty to ensure "the protection of the lives and property of our citizens and those traveling through our state."
Standing in Selma and staring across the bridge to the other side, John Lewis and his fellow marchers saw "a sea of blue-helmeted, blue-uniformed Alabama state troopers, line after line of them, dozens of battle-ready lawmen stretched from one side of U.S. Highway 80 to the other."
John Lewis knelt on the ground and prayed. Hundreds of other marchers did the same. Writing in Walking with the Wind, he remembers "the clunk of the troopers' heavy boots, the whoops of rebel yells from the white onlookers, the clip-clop of horses' hooves hitting the hard asphalt of the highway..."
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I remember what John Lewis was like toward the end of his life. Wouldn’t acknowledge Trump’s Presidency, IIRC.
No thank you.
Her new book "For Love of Country: Leave the Democrat Party Behind" looks to be worth reading.
Especially since there's a chance she'll end up running alongside PDJT later this year.
No respect for Lewis. Let it go. It’s been 60 years. What are you going to do? Get on with your life or wallow in the past all alone?
Uh, tulsi, it was never anything but lip service/pandering for votes anyway. Does she really think the dems ever gave two 💩 about ‘bipocs’? Still don’t trust her.
“...since there’s a chance she’ll end up running alongside PDJT later this year.”
As far as I know, she’s a socialist and has never renounced her commitment to socialism. Or has she?
King was a Communist and serial rapist
Hope she speaks at the Convention. She is more Conservative than half the GOP.
No.
She’s a staunch gun control backer, as well as:
Reparations, Eliminate Electoral College, Ban fossil fuels, Citizenship for Dreamers, Universal Healthcare, minimum wage increases, Assault Weapons Bans, pro-abortion
What’s there to like about her?
I worked with a gal who was a reporter for her high school paper in the south. She told me that she actually got an interview with Dr. King, and that he made a pass at her!
Regan paid his Conservative dues with years of writing articles, making radio spots, and governing as a Conservative at the State level before moving to the National stage.
Right now its impossible to tell if Gabbard is a typical narcissistic politician like Obama, or an honest convert like Regan.
I’m not sure if I can get behind two people in the white house who were leftists until they stopped getting what they wanted and became conservative.
Maybe take a look at her voting score while she was in office.
> No. She’s a staunch gun control backer, as well as: Reparations, Eliminate Electoral College, Ban fossil fuels, Citizenship for Dreamers, Universal Healthcare, minimum wage increases, Assault Weapons Bans, pro-abortion...
Are you saying those are her positions NOW, or are those merely her positions years ago?
Some of the people whose views we most respect (Reagan and Trump come immediately to mind) started off as left/liberal Democrats and evolved to a more Conservative position over years of disillusionment with the Left. We gave them the benefit of the doubt, and the results were good.
It appears to me that Gabbard is on that same trajectory. She was a left-leaning Democrat (even a Bernie supporter) at least in part because in Hawaii any other position is untenable politically. But she has moved away from that position.
I do not know her mind. She spoke very convincingly at CPAC. I'm willing to give her a chance to explain what she believes, which is why I'm going to read her book. Should she become VP, I want to know what to expect. I encourage you to do the same, rather than just repeating the negatives from years ago.
I'm hoping that she is on a Reagan/Trump type road. I'd like to think she's honest. We'll just have to see...
Precisely correct. That's why I'm going to read her book, and watch very carefully if it looks like PDJT is likely to choose her as VP running mate.
We don't have much else to go on, since unlike Reagan she hasn't governed at the State level first.
Rats and race baiters have ignored Dr. King for many years - Tulsi is a bit late on that. Despite his flaws, he was right about race relations - the color of your skin shouldn’t mean squat compared to your demonstrated character. Don’t think King would have bought into today’s racial divisiveness if he were still with us.
Trust, but verify might apply here, but she doesn’t have the track record to trust, in my book.
Maybe 4,8,12 years down the road, she’ll look better, after proving her “newly adopted” Conservative values, not yet.
Let us pray that we still have a country in four, eight, 12 years.
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