[Bluegrass Conservative]

Is this a surprise? Like nearly all professional athletes, Robinson EARNED his position. This may be one of the reasons that so many of them vote Republican.

[Vaquero]

Republican or not he was OUT!!!

[TBP]

This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say.

Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.

[TBP]

This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say.

Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.

[TBP]

This is one of those things you’re not allowed to say.

Although Jackie was something of a RINO: he worked for Nelson Rockefeller and was a fervent Rocky supporter. Like many Rockefeller Republicans (probably including Lord Nelson himself), he supported the corrupt, amoral LBJ over Goldwater.

[nutmeg]

Thanks, bmweezer, for this reminder on Jackie Robinson Day in Major League Baseball.

More very interesting info here: National Black Republican Association

[SoCal Pubbie]

Jackie Robinson was NOT the first black to play major league baseball. There were several men in the 1800’s who could claim that distinction, including Bud Fowler, Moses Fleetwood Walker, and William Edward “Bill” White. Robinson WAS the first man to break the color barrier that prohibited blacks from participating from those early days through 1946.

[Zionist Conspirator]

Actually, there were Black ML baseball players in the nineteenth century, then the color line came down.

[justiceseeker93]

I recall that Robinson, after retiring from baseball, was actively supporting Nelson Rockefeller in his gubernatorial campaigns in New York. Rockefeller was acknowledged as the leader of the “liberal” wing of the GOP throughout the late 1950s and 1960s. So Robinson by today’s standards would probably be called a RINO.

[justiceseeker93]

There’s quite a contrast in today’s baseball ownership, which, to the best of my knowledge, does not contain a single owner or ownership who can be identitified as Republican - not since George W. Bush left the Texas Rangers. Since Selig became Commissar, he and his minions have seemed to alligned themselves completely with the ‘Rats on Capitol Hill.

It was no accident, for example, that no less prominent a Dem than George Mitchell was picked to whitewash the steroid scandal, in so far as Selig and pals were concerned. By focusing their attention on star players, rather than the (excluseively Dem) management who for years quietly condoned, covered up, and profited from steroid use among players, Selig and company were able to emerge from the ‘Rat-controlled House committee hearings without significant damage to their reputations. The fact is that ‘Rat Selig’s regime has been a disaster on many fronts from the baseball fan’s perspective.