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On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. Connor's men used dogs and clubs... [see http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com for more] Republicans would benefit tremendously from appreciating the heritage of our Grand Old Party. See www.republicanbasics.com for more information.

Leave it to Rush to sum up the political situation in a pithy, high-impact way. Here's how Limbaugh opened today's show, speaking of the way Bill Clinton injected race into the campaign with his comparison [view video of Clinton making his statement here] of Obama's South Carolina primary victory to Jesse Jackson's twin wins in the Palmetto State in the '80s: We've gone from Bull Connor to Bull Clinton.

On this day in 1963, police in Birmingham, Alabama -- under the command of the Democrat sheriff, Eugene "Bull" Connor -- attacked several thousand African-American schoolchildren who were demonstrating peacefully for their civil rights. Connor's men used high-pressure hoses, clubs and police dogs in their assault, and then jailed nearly a thousand children. At the time, it should be noted, Connor was the Democratic National Committeeman for Alabama. A member of the Ku Klux Klan, Connor had been a Democrat state legislator and a delegate to the 1948 Democratic National Convention. A year after attacking the African-American children, Connor was...

October 05, 2005, 8:12 a.m. Grand Wizard Bush "Bull Connor" Katrina crap. As levees crumbled in New Orleans after hurricanes Katrina and Rita, so, too, tumbled any sense of decorum among key black Democrats. Officials and activists alike are re-submerging the Crescent City in a fact-free torrent of vitriol. "George Bush is our Bull Connor," Rep. Charles Rangel of New York told cheering Congressional Black Caucus conventioneers on September 22. "If you're black in this country, and you're poor in this country, it's not an inconvenience. It's a death sentence." Rangel equated Republican President Bush to Theophilus "Bull" Connor, Birmingham,...

White Liberal Racists Believed Rumors September 27, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This from the New York Sun today: "Responding to statements made last week by Rep. Charles Rangel, the Republican National Committee urged Democratic leaders yesterday to denounce the New York congressman's comparison of President Bush to the late Theophilus 'Bull' Connor, the Birmingham, Ala., police commissioner who came to symbolize Southern racism in the 1960s. The Republican request for repudiation, however, met with expressions of support for Mr. Rangel's statement, particularly from black Democratic leaders in New York. The...

Charlie Rangel unfairly used the name that symbolizes hard-line Southern racism against President Bush. Bull Connor, who used fire hoses and police dogs on the civil rights workers in Birmingham was born a DEMOCRAT and died a DEMOCRAT. Bull Connor, a full fledged member of the Democrat National Committee (DNC) in 1948 led the segregationist-minded dissidents who walked out of the Democratic national convention in Philadelphia because a civil rights plank was added to the platform. As a full fledged member of the Democrat National Committee, Bull Connor was not only was a DEMOCRAT, Bull Connor was a DEMOCRAT leader....

Former President Bill Clinton compared Muslim terrorism on U.S. soil to the 1960 brutality of Birmingham police chief Bull Connor against civil rights marchers. "These people who killed all of these Americans thought they had the whole story," Clinton told his audience as he accepted a national Freedom Award from the National Civil Rights Museum with Memphis civil rights heroine Maxine Smith. Clinton, sounding like a combination preacher and stand-up comedian, drew several standing ovations Tuesday in an acceptance speech in which he said the world is divided by people "who think our differences are more important than our similarities."...