[cripplecreek]

I don't know about MLK but the KKK thing isn't exactly an accusation, it's a fact.

[Gordongekko909]

A-yup. It was the IRA to the Democrats' Sinn Fein after the Civil War.

[mnehring]

MLK A Republican

[spikeytx86]

I don't know If he was a registered republican but he did back Eisenhower. If I remember correctly I believe he was an Democratic Socialist actually. The Klan statement is 100% though.

[Vigilanteman]

Considering that King got his first job as pastor in Alabama in 1953, a time and place when Jim Crow Law was in full force, it is unlikely to beleive he could have registered as a Democrat had he tried. Condi Rice notes her father, who first registered to vote in Alabama at about the same time, was turned away by the Democrats and welcomed by the Republicans.

[SJackson]

I don't know about MLK but the KKK thing isn't exactly an accusation, it's a fact.

Not only true, true twice. Whoever wrote the ad seems to think the Klan we know today was started by Democrats after the civil war. Ther original KKK was definitively put out of business by President Grant, a Republican.

Todays Klan was formed in 1915, by Democrats, based not only on a virulently anti-black, but an anti-immigrant and antisemitic agenda. Founded in the north, Indiana.

In the words of the President, Woodrow Wilson, Democrat

The white men were roused by a mere instinct of self-preservation ... until at last there had sprung into existence a great Ku Klux Klan, a veritable empire of the South, to protect the Southern country