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20 Of The Most Embarrassing Moments In The History Of The Democrat Party
Townhall.com ^ | February 23, 2013 | John Hawkins

Posted on 02/23/2013 2:27:32 AM PST by Kaslin

For example, one will virtually never hear that the Palmer Raids, Prohibition, or American eugenics were thoroughly progressive phenomena. These are sins America itself must atone for. Meanwhile, real or alleged “conservative” misdeeds — say McCarthyism — are always the exclusive fault of conservatives and a sign of the policies they would repeat if given power. The only culpable mistake that liberals make is failing to fight “hard enough” for their principles. Liberals are never responsible for historic misdeeds because they feel no compulsion to defend the inherent goodness of America. Conservatives, meanwhile, not only take the blame for events not of their own making that they often worked the most assiduously against, but find themselves defending liberal misdeeds in order to defend America herself. -- Jonah Goldberg

1) The Trail of Tears (1838): The first Democrat President, Andrew Jackson and his successor Martin Van Buren, herded Indians into camps, tormented them, burned and pillaged their homes and forced them to relocate with minimal supplies. Thousands died along the way.

2) Democrats Cause The Civil War (1860): The pro-slavery faction of the Democrat Party responded to Abraham Lincoln's election by seceding, which led to the Civil War.

3) Formation of the KKK (1865): Along with 5 other Confederate veterans, Democrat Nathan Bedford Forrest created the KKK.

4) 300 Black Americans Murdered (1868): "Democrats in Opelousas, Louisiana killed nearly 300 blacks who tried to foil an assault on a Republican newspaper editor."

5) The American Protective League and The Palmer Raids (1919-1921): Under the leadership of Woodrow Wilson, criticizing the government became a crime and a fascist organization, the American Protective League was formed to spy on and even arrest fellow Americans for being insufficiently loyal to the government. More than 100,000 Americans were arrested, with less than 1% of them ever being found guilty of any kind of crime.

6) Democrats Successfully Stop Republicans From Making Lynching A Federal Crime (1922): "The U.S. House adopted Rep. Leonidas Dyer’s (R., Mo.) bill making lynching a federal crime. Filibustering Senate Democrats killed the measure."

7) The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (1932-1972): Contrary to what you may have heard, Democrats in Alabama did not give black Americans syphilis. However, the experimenters did know that subjects of the experiment unknowingly had syphilis and even after it was proven that penicillin could be used to effectively treat the disease in 1947, the experiments continued. As a result, a number of the subjects needlessly infected their loved ones and died, when they could have been cured.

8) Japanese Internment Camps (1942): Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt issued an executive order that led to more than 100,000 Japanese Americans being put into "bleak, remote camps surrounded by barbed wire and armed guards."

9) Alger Hiss Convicted Of Perjury (1950): Hiss, who helped advise FDR at Yalta and was strongly defended by the Left, turned out to be a Soviet spy. He was convicted of perjury in 1950 (Sadly, the statute of limitations on espionage had run out), but was defended by liberals for decades until the Verona papers proved so conclusively that he was guilty that even most his fellow liberals couldn't continue to deny it.

10) The West Virgina Democrat primary is rigged by John F. Kennedy (1960): From an interview with the late, great Robert Novak.

John Hawkins: You also said that without question, John F. Kennedy rigged the West Virginia Democratic primary in (1960), but that the Wall Street Journal killed the story. Do you think that sort of thing is still occurring with great regularity and do you wish the Journal had reported the story when it happened?

Robert Novak: In my opinion, they should have. They sent two reporters down to West Virginia for six weeks and they came back with a carefully documented story on voter fraud in West Virginia, buying votes, and how he beat Humphrey in the primary and therefore got the nomination. But, Ed Kilgore, the President of Dow Jones and publisher of the Wall Street Journal, a very conservative man, said it wasn’t the business of the Wall Street Journal to decide the nominee of the Democratic Party and he killed the story. That story didn’t come out for many, many years — 30-40 years. It was kept secret all that time.

11) The Bay of Pigs (1961): After training a Cuban militia to overthrow Castro, Kennedy got cold feet and didn't give the men all the air support they were promised. As a result, they were easily defeated by Castro's men and today, Cuba is still ruled by a hostile, anti-American dictatorship.

12) Fire Hoses And Attack Dogs Used On Children (1963): Birmingham, Alabama's notorious Commissioner of Public Safety, Democrat Bull Connor, used attack dogs and fire hoses on children and teenagers marching for civil rights. Ultimately, thousands of them would also be arrested.

13) Escalation In Vietnam (1964): Lyndon Johnson dramatically escalated our troops’ presence in Vietnam while he simultaneously put political restrictions in place that made the war unwinnable. As a result, 58,000 Americans died in a war that ultimately achieved none of its aims.

14) Stand In The Schoolhouse Door (1963): Democrat George Wallace gave his notorious speech against integrating schools at the University of Alabama in which he said, "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."

15) Chappaquiddick (1969): The Democrats’ beloved "Liberal Lion" of the Senate, Ted Kennedy ran off the road into a tidal pool with passenger Mary Jo Kopechne in the car. Kennedy swam free and then spent 9 hours plotting how he would reveal the news to the press while she slowly suffocated to death.

16) Democrats Deliver South Vietnam To The North (1975): "In 1975, when there were no Americans left in Vietnam, the left wing of the Democratic Party killed the government of South Vietnam, cut off all of its funding, cut off all of its ammunition, and sent a signal to the world that the United States had abandoned its allies." -- Newt Gingrich

17) The Iranian Hostage Crisis (1979-1981): 52 Americans were held hostage by the government of Iran for 444 days. After Jimmy Carter’s disastrous, failed rescue attempt, the hostages were finally released after Ronald Reagan's inaugural address.

18) Bill Clinton turns down Osama Bin Laden (1996): In Bill Clinton's own words, "'Mr. bin Laden used to live in Sudan. He was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991, then he went to Sudan. And we’d been hearing that the Sudanese wanted America to start meeting with them again. They released him. At the time, 1996, he had committed no crime against America so I did not bring him here because we had no basis on which to hold him, though we knew he wanted to commit crimes against America.' — Bill Clinton explains to a Long Island, N.Y., business group why he turned down Sudan’s offer to extradite Osama Bin Laden to America in 1996." Had Bill Clinton accepted Sudan's offer, 9/11 would have likely never happened.

19) Bill Clinton was impeached (1998): Clinton became only the 2nd President in American history to be impeached after he lied under oath about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.

20) America loses its AAA credit rating (2011): The United States was first given its AAA credit in 1917, but it couldn’t survive Barack Obama's record breaking spending. In 2011, America lost its AAA credit rating.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: bayofpigs; billclinton; chappaquiddick; civilwar; democrat; democrats; dsj; greatestpresident; history; iranhostagecrisis; jimcrow; kkk; osamabinladen; secession; segregation; vietnam
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To: maddog55

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41 posted on 02/23/2013 6:36:16 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin
Good morning.

A person or party cannot be embarrassed if they feel no shame.

Methinks Detroit should be on the list.

5.56mm

42 posted on 02/23/2013 6:48:14 AM PST by M Kehoe
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To: PJ-Comix; maddog55; Revelation 911

All are excellent points. However the list only goes to 2011


43 posted on 02/23/2013 6:49:50 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

Golly, things you missed:

The murder of Vince Foster
The tampering with evidence of his murder
The theft of, as yet still unrecovered, almost 1000 FBI files
The theft of over $100,000 of government property from our White House by the Clintons
Sandy Berger stealing original documents from the National Archives and destroyed them
The installation of a clearly known illegal alien into our White House
The stolen presidential election of 2012
(add your own)


44 posted on 02/23/2013 7:03:46 AM PST by laweeks
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To: All

I am surprised no one has photoshopped the official national democrat party rape whistle. (With a winking approved by bill. C. in the corner)


45 posted on 02/23/2013 7:06:27 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Zakeet

cue the democrat party success in the lost city of detroit pictures.


46 posted on 02/23/2013 7:18:36 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: laweeks; neverdem; narses

Tammany Hall - but then again, New York (and Chicago) regional democratic corruption goes back all the way past the 1870’s ....


47 posted on 02/23/2013 7:32:45 AM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Kaslin

21. Democrats stage a coup d’etat in Wilmington, NC (1898) when white Democratic insurrectionists overthrew the legitimately elected local government, the only such event in United States history.

22. Woodrow Wilson gave us the income tax and implemented a policy of racial segregation for federal employees.

23. 1964 Civil Rights Act is passed in spite of a filibuster led by Harry Byrd (D-VA), Al Gore, Sr. (D-TN) and Robert “KKK” Byrd (D-WV). Years later, RATs claim they passed the Act over Whig opposition.

24. Jimmy Carter

25. Elmer Fudd


48 posted on 02/23/2013 7:38:48 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners)
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To: NTHockey

Dodd/Frank should be on the list.


49 posted on 02/23/2013 8:32:37 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Got a problem? Nothing a drone strike can't fix.)
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To: Kaslin

The Paul Wellstone memorial Pep Rally. JFK’s affairs - Marilyn Monroe, 19-year staffer screwed in Jackie’s bedroom,,,.

The Judge Bork hearings, the Justice Clarence Thomas hearings. Madeline Albright’s champagne party with Kim Jong Il, Clinton lying publicly about Monica, then lying to his cabinet and having his cabinet, starting with Albright, repeat his lies publicly...

The attacks on GWB, calling him a liar about Iraq when the investigation tracked way back into Clinton’s admin., the House banking scandal, Gerry Studds and Barney Franks sex scandals, the Jim Wright scandal,,,

FDR trying to stack the Supreme Court, the Yalta Conference,,,

The list just goes on and on...


50 posted on 02/23/2013 8:44:35 AM PST by untwist
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To: I Drive Too Fast

I ached, felt bad, and had a case of pleurisy that lasted about 20 years....it all started with that one botched shot.

In my opinion, the CDC long ago jumped the shark, medically. Lord help us if we ever experience a deadly communicable disease or NBC attack here in this country.

They spend too much time in wasted efforts about domestic violence, guns and the like being ‘medical diseases’ to be effective. All this and yet they never mention cars, trucks planes and trains as being any possible health hazard.


51 posted on 02/23/2013 9:53:59 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

Well, I’m glad the regular flu shots are working for you. I just do not trust them after what I’ve endured with that one shot. I’m 63 and never had any other kind of shot since 1976 and haven’t had a cold or the flu since then.


52 posted on 02/23/2013 9:55:54 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Kaslin

21. During the 2012 presidential campaign the Democratic Party National Convention, the party removed all references to “God” and booed the idea of putting Him back in their platform.


53 posted on 02/23/2013 10:52:48 AM PST by CodeToad (Liberals are bloodsucking ticks. We need to light the matchstick to burn them off.)
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To: Kaslin

None of this matters, Democrats are immune from shame...


54 posted on 02/23/2013 11:18:15 AM PST by Kenton
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To: Gaffer

I remember the warnings and didn’t want the shot back in 1976, but had no choice. Some years when I get a flu shot I tend to get sick. This year I was ok. Glad you are better.


55 posted on 02/23/2013 11:32:55 AM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: Ann Archy

Agreed. The two greatest moral evils ever perpetrated by the Democrats are slavery and abortion. Perhaps the author of the piece doesn’t see a problem with “a woman’s right to choose”.


56 posted on 02/23/2013 11:48:21 AM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: Enduro Guy
And yet they still continue to win elections and dominate us... * sigh *

That's because they were allowed to take over the culture...the news media, the entertainment industry, and public schools and colleges. The only place a child will hear a conservative message is at home. And then you just have to hope you did a good enough job that they don't get brainwashed by all the leftist messaging they see every day.

57 posted on 02/23/2013 11:53:04 AM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: Theodore R.

Look.....Democrats OWN Abortion and Slavery and Homosexuals taking over the country’s morals. It’s not even CLOSE!!!


58 posted on 02/23/2013 2:05:43 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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To: Theodore R.

Look.....Democrats OWN Abortion and Slavery and Homosexuals taking over the country’s morals. It’s not even CLOSE!!!


59 posted on 02/23/2013 2:06:00 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION........the HUMAN sacrifice to the god of CONVENIENCE.)
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