As a liberal, you have a wonderful way of avoiding reality. Instead of yet again arguing each of your points, could you tell me your thoughts on this:

http://www.620wtmj.com/shows/c.....tml?blog=y

It’s simple racism. Your party is sick to the core.

Also from today:

http://michellemalkin.com/2008.....u-pretend/

God forbid any minority trespass the Democrat Party. (cf. Any of the dozens of activist minority Republicans I knew at MU.)

2) Key word, of course, being “former.” Unlike the supposedly good Christians of the right wing, we Democrats actually take God at his word that true repentance is always possible and always acceptable. The Jewish phrasing of the concept would be “The gates of prayer are sometimes closed, but the gates of repentance are always open.” The Christian phrasing would probably be Jesus’s words to the adulteress: “Go and sin no more.” I take it this is not an unfamiliar concept? (Also, you do realize that Byrd was not “the leader” of the KKK, correct? He never even led a local chapter.)

3) Perhaps, Brian, you missed the part where I said that the Southern Switch happened AFTER the Civil Rights Act (and largely because of it)? So no, your little revelation is not news. But I note that you left out the crucial details that it was JFK, a Democratic president, who got the bill written and argued passionately in its defense, and that LBJ, a Democratic president, was the driving force behind the act’s passage, and that all the historians agree that the act only passed because of him. What was your major, again? I really hope it wasn’t history.

4) What the heck? I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. Who said anything about Protestants?

As for your cries of racism:

Affirmative Action–so now it’s racist against minorities? I thought the GOP talking point was that it was racist against white males.

“Typical White Person”–yes, that language usage was problematic, but it’s no more “radical” than when a woman talks about “typical men” or an atheist talks about “typical Christians.” Stereotypical and wrong, yes. Disappointing, definitely. But let he who is without sin cast the first stone on that score. Come clean–how many times have you said someone was a “typical woman” or a “typical liberal” or a “typical Muslim” or a “typical” anything? I’m willing to bet you use it frequently (especially the first two), if you’re honest with yourself. I know I say “typical men” and “typical Republican” (or some variation thereof) more often than I should, and “typical Jew” while joking around with my friends. I shouldn’t, but I do–and so do you. It’s hardly “outright” anything.

“Cling to guns and religion”–how, exactly, is that racist?

Jeremiah Wright–from where I sit, Wright is no more extreme or crazy than the average (dare I say typical?) Evangelical pastor or hardliner Catholic priest or ultra-Orthodox rabbi. So unless you can honestly say that you would also be concerned by a member of those religious groups in high office (which, if you are a Palin supporter, you can’t), you’re nothing but a hypocrite.

Jesse Jackson–so tell me, when have they ever been friends or even appeared to like each other? Or did you just assume that they must be close?

George Wallace–I see the “the Democratic Party of forty years ago is no more comparable to the Democratic Party today than the Republican Party of Barry Goldwater is comparable to the Republican Party of the neocons” history lesson flew over your head again. Once again, is the modern Catholic Church evil because of the actions of the Borgia pope or their policies during the Holocaust? No? Didn’t think so. (Or better yet, how about the Mormon church, the most reliable GOP base in the country?)

Jimmy Carter–what’s with the minstrel show spelling, Brian?

As for Republican racism, let’s start with Limbaugh and his friends’ assertions that Colin Powell only endorsed Obama because Obama is black, the baseless Republican outcry about ACORN and subsequent attempt to have people from the inner-city who had proper registrations stricken from the record (while ignoring the fact that there is no evidence that anyone has ever fraudulently cast a vote under a false name, and trying to hush up the Mark Jacoby story), the disgusting racial slurs that are being posted and encouraged on FreeRepublic and RedState (I go over there for laughs sometimes, but now they’re just plain disgusting) and shouted at McCain-Palin rallies, the election and reelection of Strom Thurmond (who left the Democratic Party after LBJ passed the Civil Rights Act) and Jesse Helms in the Republican Party, and the continued insistance of a sizeable chunk of the right that all Muslims and Arabs are evil (leading to assaults on American Muslims and vandalism of mosques), not to mention the perpetuation of the Reagan myth of the “black welfare queen” and the insistance that minorities end up on welfare because they don’t work hard enough.

Your move, Brian. Bring it.

Come on, pal. Can’t you come up with a few examples of Republican racism? Or maybe it’s just a myth and you feel bad thinking about all the Democrat Party racists of the past 200 years. It’s too bad you don’t want to talk about any evidence or facts … I really enjoy those discussions.

I’ve leave you to think about the Democrat Party’s own Vice Presidential candidate’s thoughts on Barack Obama: “I mean, you got the first mainstream African American [Barack Obama] who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice looking guy.”

I mean Jesus, Richard, the senior statesman in the Democrat Party, Robert “KKK” Byrd, was the former leader of the KKK! Hello!

If you want to actually discuss this, great. Let’s talk about Barack’s outright racism. Barack believes any opposition to his coronation is silent racism. His “typical white person” comment. “Cling to guns and religion.” All the Orwellian warnings about Republicans claiming that he’s “different from the other presidents.” Even apart from his frothy black supremacist friends Rev’s Wright and Jackson, Barack is extreme to the core. If you want to get into policy, Barack buys into the typical anti-black racism of affirmative action which claims that blacks and other minorities are inherently inferior to whites/asians. And that’s just the current Messiah of the Democrat Party. You really want to get into Democrats like George Wallace and Jimmah Cartah?

Also, I cannot fathom what kind of brain washing it takes to sincerely believe modern democrats are racist. I have met quite a few in my day and I disagree with you. Republicans on the other hand…

Are you actually serious? It was leaders in the Democrat Party who tried to block the Civil Rights Act. It wasn’t Republicans who led day-long filibusters agaisnt the Bill. Sorry pal, that’s a fact of history. The Democrat Party has been racist since the days of Andrew Jackson up through to today. The sins of Margaret Sanger still haunt her Democrat Party enablers today, particularly through the racist bias of abortion. Shame on Democrats.

Why don’t you open up a history text on the Civil Rights Act for once?