Recasting Republicans as the Party of Civil Rights

Recasting Republicans as the Party of Civil Rights



This is so ghastly it's funny in a sheer chutzpah sense:

A glossy, GOP-produced "2005 Republican Freedom Calendar," spotlighting key moments in the party's civil rights history, has been distributed to party officials nationwide.



"We started our party with the express intent of protecting the American people from the Democrats' pro-slavery policies that expressly made people inferior to the state," Rep. Christopher Cox wrote in a letter printed on the calendar. "Today, the animating spirit of the Republican Party is exactly the same as it was then: free people, free minds, free markets, free expression, and unlimited individual opportunity."

This is the same party advancing the Black Folk Gon' Die Anyway argument for Social Security deform? They're actually hauling the Party of Lincoln argument out of the basement?



Time for us Democrats to dust off Free Silver, 54-40 or Fight, and the League of Nations... if the Democrats should be able to hang onto ANY issue in the post-Brown v. Board era, it's civil rights.



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