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Texas GOP leaders are issuing apologies for slavery
Various - Houston Chronicle, Austin American Statesman, FR discussions | 5/28 | vanity

Posted on 05/28/2004 7:59:25 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist

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Fellow Republicans: Upset that your leaders are issuing repentances on your party's behalf for a wrong that you never committed and without your consent?

Let em know!

Susan Weddington & David Barton: Wall Builders -(817) 441-6044
info@wallbuilders.com

chairman@texasgop.org

1 posted on 05/28/2004 7:59:26 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: stainlessbanner; billbears; 4ConservativeJustices; Gianni; nolu chan; stand watie; ...

Southern ping!


2 posted on 05/28/2004 8:02:08 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist
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To: GOPcapitalist

Spineless invertabrates! Oh, wait, that's redundant.


3 posted on 05/28/2004 8:02:40 PM PDT by TADSLOS (Right Wing Infidel since 1954)
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To: TADSLOS
Spineless invertabrates! Oh, wait, that's redundant.

LOL! Both are accurate descriptions of these people though.

4 posted on 05/28/2004 8:04:41 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: Non-Sequitur
Notice of Summons

Recipient: Tu Quoque Boy
Address: The Vasty Deep
Purpose: To check out what adherents to the yankee view of history are doing on behalf of the Republican Party.

5 posted on 05/28/2004 8:07:16 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

Aside from some historical inaccuracies, Barton's mission (www.wallbuilders.org) seems pretty mainstream. How did he get into this stuff?


6 posted on 05/28/2004 8:29:11 PM PDT by JohnnieWalker (Pardon me, but I didn't ask for ice.)
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To: JohnnieWalker
Aside from some historical inaccuracies, Barton's mission (www.wallbuilders.org) seems pretty mainstream. How did he get into this stuff?

He entered politics as an outsider and became part of the establishment over time. To quote the great Roger Daltry, meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

The truly scary thing about it all is that Barton is on a textbook advisory panel in states all over the country. Normally when a conservative gets on one of these panels it's good. But Barton? Given his involvement in flaky racial pandering like this, I'm not too enthusiastic and in fact I'm not so sure of his conservatism.

7 posted on 05/28/2004 9:46:07 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

I wondered why I was suddenly getting e-mail invites (from Binkhiser, by the way) to an African-American $25 dollar a head conference at the Marriot. Not part of the original convention agenda. Sadly, Thursday night will find me safely ensconced in the Rules Committee until midnight. Don't need the contact numbers, they will find out what I think when I swing every vote I can influence to Gina Parker. And, since he is threatening not to work with Gina if we elect her chair, all I can say, is David, much as I have admired you in the past, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Two years ago, Phil Gramm gave a great speech, pointing out that much as the Dems court the black vote, it is the REPUBLICAN Party that elects blacks to state offices, at least in Texas. Now in two years we have sunk to this level of pandering.


8 posted on 05/28/2004 9:51:37 PM PDT by barkeep
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To: GOPcapitalist
If you want to see just how backwards Barton's view of history is take a look at his new book - a collection of speeches "edited" by The Rev. Dr. David Barton himself.

http://www.wallbuilders.com/cgi-bin/miva?Merchant2/merchant.mv+Screen=PROD&Store_Code=W&Product_Code=B30&Category_Code=B

"Celebrate Liberty!" ed. by David Barton:

"John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, George Washington Adams - These are but a few of the authors whose words are recaptured in this timely collection. Their orations inspired thousands in earlier generations, and now WallBuilders makes them available to the hearts of citizens today!"

...in other words, a book of speeches by yankees including the wholly undistinguished George Washington Adams, a womanizing drunk from an otherwise famous political family who committed suicide at age 28 by jumping into Long Island sound. Some role model for liberty!

9 posted on 05/28/2004 9:56:48 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: barkeep
Don't need the contact numbers, they will find out what I think when I swing every vote I can influence to Gina Parker. And, since he is threatening not to work with Gina if we elect her chair, all I can say, is David, much as I have admired you in the past, don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

Dittos from another Parker delegate. Barton's become the establishment just like Weddington was. He won't be missed here.

10 posted on 05/28/2004 10:26:53 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

HOLY CRAP!!!

Slavery is BANNED???

What about the family I have tending my garden and cleaning my garage???


12 posted on 05/29/2004 8:58:42 AM PDT by baltodog (There are three kinds of people: Those who can count, and those who can't.)
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To: GOPcapitalist

I'm still miffed at W for yanking the plaque.

I would guess that TX is like TN....many new GOPers are northern guests and just don't have our sensibilities about the past.

Many are fairly conservative but southern provincialism is not on their radar....alas.


13 posted on 05/29/2004 10:35:52 AM PDT by wardaddy (This is it. We either win and prevail or we lose and get tossed into that dustbin W mentioned!)
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HOLY CRAP!!! Slavery is BANNED???

You better communicate that to Susan Weddington. She's still apologizing for it 140 years later.

14 posted on 05/29/2004 11:32:36 AM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

I was always curious about this; is Susan Weddington in any related to the lead attorney for the woman who petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the anti-abortion statues of Texas?


15 posted on 05/29/2004 3:13:56 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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No relation that I know of, though both Weddingtons are flakes as this one's slavery apologies demonstrate.


16 posted on 05/29/2004 5:19:29 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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To: GOPcapitalist

If memory serves me correctly-it rarely happens, but sometimes I luck out-the attorney representing Norma McCorvey was also politically active. I believe she won a congressional seat after Roe v. Wade had been decided in her client's favor.


17 posted on 05/29/2004 5:28:05 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("Angels come to greet with lots of jack, and when you lose it they don't attack...")
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To: GOPcapitalist

Makes sense. I've always wondered what exactly David did for the party as vice-chairman - nothing as far as I can tell. Must help him get on to those textbook committees, though. Some people use their business to get into politics; looks like David uses the Republican Party to help his business.

Like I said earlier, Wallbuilders seems on the surface to be pretty mainstream, and I agree with the mission, but David Barton isn't wouldn't be my first choice to lead that mission.

There is enough evidence of Christian faith in the founding that one does not have to invent it. Barton has apparently fallen into the trap of following the example of leftist revisionists who use history to advance their own contemporary political agendas. As much of a Republican as I am, believe in the Russell Kirk approach to conservatism as a rejection of ideology. Re-writing history to serve some modern political agenda, even it is intended to help Republicans, is every bit as detestable as Marxist revisionism.

The more I think about it, the more embarrassed I am to have David Barton representing us.


18 posted on 05/29/2004 11:10:33 PM PDT by JohnnieWalker (Pardon me, but I didn't ask for ice.)
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To: GOPcapitalist
God, if you will forgive the injustices and the wounds caused by white Republicans

And she is not referring to Reconstruction. There are a good number of folks in the GOP who no longer wish to play the race game. If this is the GOPs idea of building black voters in the party, it won't work.

19 posted on 05/30/2004 11:29:05 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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If this is the GOPs idea of building black voters in the party, it won't work.

Exactly. If we want black voters we need to carry our message of conservatism to them. Those who aren't conservatives we should convert.

This sort of stuff is pandering, pure and simple, of the very worst Jesse Jackson Tom Daschle Hillary Clinton type and the GOP embarrasses itself by playing along.

20 posted on 05/30/2004 1:32:03 PM PDT by GOPcapitalist ("Can Lincoln expect to subjugate a people thus resolved? No!" - Sam Houston, 3/1863)
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