Posted on 01/02/2015 8:41:37 AM PST by xzins
It is too convenient that this 'civic organization' meeting happened a few hours before the 'Duke' meeting. It's too convenient that Scalise's friend was running both. It's too convenient that they were at the same location. It's too convenient that the earlier event 'also' had those who would attend the 2nd event also in attendance.
The "Jewish Question" comment in this article I chilling. Especially so as we see Israel opposed by Obama with nary a word of consternation from Boehner's GOP establishment.
Truly, Boehner has to go.
Lets make one thing clear theres nothing conservative about racism and anti-Semitism, they are immoral perversions, not concepts that have any place in political discourse, especially conservative political discourse.
I agree. But a given racist can otherwise hold conservative political opinions with which I agree.
BTW, I think this point doesn't get enough play. Racism and anti-semitism are inherently in conflict with the principles true American conservatism is trying to conserve.
That racists in America have often (usually) otherwise held conservative beliefs doesn't change that fact.
Right or wrong, an event that happened 12 years ago, by a first term state Senator trying to meet every single group in his district, gets asked to talk to a bunch of senior citizens, in the same tiny motel that other groups were using. He never gave it a thought, until some reporter says you were talking to a bunch of David Duke neo-nazis.
He probably could not legitimately remember a small event from 12 years ago and apologized because that happens to be the knee jerk reaction all Republicans give to this kind of attack.
Whether you like Scalise or not, if we allow the media to paint every single possible occurrence to nefarious motives, we will hamstring every single Conservative and Republican candidates.
My memory says that even the KKK was an arm of the democratic party, that the democrats favor socialist solutions, that Nazism is socialist, and that socialists ultimately have nothing in common with freedom loving people.
As we look throughout the history of race in America, those favoring the subjugation of others are invariably democrats.
And politicians who meet with the new Black Pahthers or the Louis Farrakhan?
Must they resign in disgrace?
Indiana Representative Andre Carson (D) took part in a major Islamic convention in Chicago last weekend. The convention was hosted and sponsored by the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Islamic Circle of North America.
Carson was a featured guest on a panel discussing the events in Ferguson and beyond. He was joined on that panel by a man named Mazen Mokhtar, who is known for operating an Al Qaeda website and fundraising for the Taliban.
Here is a GOP Senator posing with, by far, America's most hate-filled, murder inciting racist.
I don’t care. There are numerous Congresscritters who wine and dine Islamic organizations whose philosophies are easily as ignorant and dangerous as those of the KKK. For that matter, there are plenty of racist organizations, black and Hispanic, that get plenty of play at the White House and in the halls of Congress. To attack a Congressman for an alleged acquaintance with David Duke, or the inconsequential organization the KKK has become, is petty.
At least with Byrd, we knew what he was, and we knew he hadn’t changed because of his associations with Islamists.
...or Sharpton
Whenever I see the scumbag Duke mentioned, I remember that in 1991, 60 % of the whites in Louisiana voted for him. Made me not want to go there for quite some time.
The most powerful KKK was that of the 20s. It was an entirely bipartisan operation.
In the South it was Democratic. Outside the South it was almost entirely Republican. The 20s KKK was strongest in the midwest, where it was Republican. Completely took over several states.
You did not catch the information: Knight, a Duke/KKK operative, and the organizer of the KKK event was a friend and neighbor of Scalise for a long time.
The so-called ‘civic event’ was ALSO organized by Knight. He scheduled both for the same day, at the same place, AND he invited members of the KKK event to the first, so-called ‘civic event’. It was all about building in plausible deniability.
Tell me that is accidental and that Scalise didn’t know what his close friend and neighbor stood for?
Now, we have John Boehner, the 2nd in line to the presidency, the Speaker of the House, an experienced politician with all the resources of the federal government at his disposal. This well-funded, well-resourced Boehner chooses as his Lieutenant a man who tried to concoct a plausible deniability scheme so he could get funding from some Duke supporters.
Boehner put Scalise in position anyway, despite all that.
Boehner needs to go.
Would you elevate them to chief Lieutenant if you were Speaker of the House?
Boehner must have felt the same. Why worry about elevating a guy who hangs out with the democrat machine known as the KKK?
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“But a given racist can otherwise hold conservative political opinions with which I agree.”
Yes, and remember, at that time Duke and his cronies were trying to infiltrate the Louisiana Republican party, so they were adopting stances (at least publicly) that were very close to standard Republican stances, and shying away from their crazier rhetoric.
I agree with your “Boehner needs to go” comment wholeheartedly.
However, I have read only that the KKK contingency wandered into the room early for coffee, not that they were invited.
Which version is right?
But Obama’s associations with Communists (Frank Marshall Davis), terrorists (Ayers) , Racists (Sharpton) are to be praised.
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