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Why Martin Luther King was a Republican
Human Events ^ | 8/16/2006 | frice

Posted on 03/16/2013 1:38:22 PM PDT by Epsdude

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21 posted on 03/16/2013 2:09:34 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (CLICK my name. See the murals before they are painted over! POTEET THEATER in OKC!)
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To: mnehring

He did have a house full of guns, though. Mostly for self-defense of course.


22 posted on 03/16/2013 2:13:27 PM PDT by erlayman
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To: OKRA2012

I Know I would have voted against the civil rights act too, although not because I have anything against civil rights or any minority.

The problem with these acts is how they “attempted” to restore and protect said rights was not only entirely unconstitutional, it was offensive to the very idea of union between theses States that a law would be made that applies only to some and not to all.

Indeed taken as a whole I am quite certant that the Civil Rights acts did far more harm the civil rights than good. I would have voted against them on all 3 accounts and I will fight implementation on the Constitutional account.

This act is indeed a very mark upon both the Republican and Democratic parties.


23 posted on 03/16/2013 2:13:32 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: mnehring

Not that I was a fan of the movie, but I love the one scene where the lily-white liberal coed goes up to Malcolm, obviously fawning over him and asking, “What can we do to help your cause?” And Malcolm just looks at her and says, “Nothing.”


24 posted on 03/16/2013 2:15:40 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: mc5cents
JFK would be a Republican today.

If the 1949 version of JFK came to our era through a time warp, he might be speaking at CPAC. However, by 1960, Kennedy had become a supporter of big government, big labor and welfare-state socialism, so if that version of JFK came here through a time warp and registered Republican, he would be part of the Karl Rove/John McCain/Susan Collins faction of the party.

25 posted on 03/16/2013 2:20:16 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: mnehring

JFK was a democrat from America’s leading democrat family, and he was a lefty, and his election was the end of America.


26 posted on 03/16/2013 2:24:20 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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To: SpaceBar
King’s most trusted advisor and strategist Bayard Rustin began his activism with the Young Communist League.

Bayard Rustin later moved off of that reservation. In 1979, I saw him lead a demonstration in Washington, DC on behalf of refugees from Vietnam's Communist government--a rally that was condemned by Jane Fonda.

27 posted on 03/16/2013 2:25:41 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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To: Fiji Hill

I think both of them would have if you ask me. Given what I know about JFK(did a few reports on him) I don’t think most people have any idea what kind of rotten guy JFK really was.

He is idealized primarily because he was a democrat and he died at a special time.


28 posted on 03/16/2013 2:26:11 PM PDT by Monorprise
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To: Fiji Hill

People forget that without the JFK presidency, the government would not be unionized, Vietnam never happened, liberal democrat immigration never happened, the 1960s never happened, even the homeless never happened.

In other words, America, the GOP, and even the democrats would all be far less lefty today.

So comparing apples to oranges doesn’t work well, without the tectonic shift of the democrats controlling all government during the 1960s, a typical politician would be more conservative in speech and agenda, and answering to an entirely different electorate than this last 100 million people gave us.


29 posted on 03/16/2013 2:30:00 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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To: wastedyears; Epsdude

Why is this being posted again ? This was a notoriously bad article and poorly researched (the title alone was factually inaccurate). This has been debunked many times since it was posted here... 7 years ago.


30 posted on 03/16/2013 2:32:41 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ansel12

It was, yet some well-meaning FReepers keep reposting it. It gives me a headache every time it shows up.


31 posted on 03/16/2013 2:36:31 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ansel12
People forget that without the JFK presidency, the government would not be unionized, Vietnam never happened, liberal democrat immigration never happened, the 1960s never happened, even the homeless never happened.

How would things be different today if Nixon had shaved on September 26, 1960, before he debated JFK?

32 posted on 03/16/2013 2:37:22 PM PDT by Fiji Hill (Io Triumphe!)
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How would things be different today if Nixon had shaved on September 26, 1960, before he debated JFK?

Watergate would of happened 8 years earlier! And so would everything else that followed, including Obammie.

33 posted on 03/16/2013 2:40:33 PM PDT by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Epsdude

So...how do we know King was a Republican? Voter registration card? Did he endorse a Republican for office? King’s writings? How?


34 posted on 03/16/2013 2:42:07 PM PDT by 0.E.O
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To: Fiji Hill

How would things be different today if Nixon had shaved on September 26, 1960, before he debated JFK?
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Gotta be careful with the ‘what if’n’ UNLESS you are a D.

Trent Lott got ‘fired’ for asking what if Jesse Helms had been elected in 1948.

Of course it was OK to eulogize “Sheetz BYRD” D(WV) for his long and fruitful life of service to the people.
Including (?) his tours in the KKK or was that just a ‘youthful indiscretion’..... At his age one may plead he had no other ‘way to go’ IF he was in MS, AL etc but wasn’t WV ‘invented’ because they didn’t want to go the way of the South?


35 posted on 03/16/2013 2:48:54 PM PDT by xrmusn (6/98 --I turn 75 next year- but remember, that's only 24 Celsius. (TKS R. Reagan))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

Conservative media has, or is well on it’s way to becoming as fake and dishonest as liberal media, everyone just says what sounds good for their team or that gets the juices flowing.

I am really discouraged with all of it.


36 posted on 03/16/2013 2:51:39 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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To: ansel12

Very revealing JFK on mass immigration. Is this from a book in your home library?


37 posted on 03/16/2013 2:53:28 PM PDT by dennisw (too much of a good thing is a bad thing --- Joe Pine)
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To: xrmusn

Strom Thurmond, not Jesse Helms.


38 posted on 03/16/2013 2:57:08 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: ansel12

It’s not the fault of “Conservative media.” This was a sloppy column written by Frances Rice. What’s unfortunate is that it did have some valid points to make, but it was marred by a title that simply wasn’t accurate (at least, not after 1960 or 1956) and by other mistakes (another individual she identified as a Republican was a candidate for and member of the New York Socialist Party).


39 posted on 03/16/2013 3:00:39 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: dennisw

No, I don’t own the book.

JFK was what finished us, the destruction of 1935 to 1960 could have been dealt with during the cycles of political change over the generations, but the 1965 Immigration Act ended all of that, and has made us a people’s being colonized by exotic foreigners who will run this piece of geography as they see fit, after first bleeding the old infrastructure for short term gain and self enrichment, millions of whom will return home after making their fortunes here and plugging into the retirement system, having retained citizenship both here and in their home nation with it’s still intact culture.


40 posted on 03/16/2013 3:04:29 PM PDT by ansel12 ( August 29,2008 A Natural Born Reformer inadvertently unleashed within palace walls, change ensues.)
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