Comments on: DeMint Shines, Graham Flops In Pro-Growth Rankings

By: WarreninSC

WarreninSC — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:26:58 +0000

The only question is, whether Senator Bailout Gramnesty will follow Senator Spector?

By: Gillon

Gillon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:47:45 +0000

My grandfather was a Republican when he died. During the Depression he had worked for the Civilian Conservation Corps while his father was able to keep bread on the family table with a job under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration. After World War Two he was able to finish college with help from the G. I. Bill. He bought his first house with a loan guaranteed by the Federal Housing Authority. He sent his children to college with the help of Pell grants. When he was laid off once for several months, he received unemployment compensation until he found another job. His retirement was made more comfortable with the help of a Social Security check and Medicare. I remember once asking him why he voted Republican. His response was: “What has the Democratic party ever done for me?”

By: cerius

cerius — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:54:17 +0000

Bike Man,
Twas the Democratic-sponsored “Great Society” programs that incentivized sloth and punished hard work. No mystery that our state has a nearly 60%-80% illegitimacy rate in certain corridors. The gubmint pays you to breed; but don’t get married or you get taxed! You betta not work or you lose your gubmit’ check. Welfare queens all vote Democrat; keep the gravy train chuggin; mo’ chiren you have the mo’money from the gubmin’t you gets to keep!

FDR’s “Great Society” was a multi-trillion dollar failure. It’s only success was to keep getting Democrats elected to run the plantation, while breeding generational poverty and ignorance and governmental dependence.

By: James the Foot Soldier

James the Foot Soldier — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 21:40:05 +0000

Old Bike Dude:

The aircraft carrier in the avitar is the CVN-76:

http://www.battle-fleet.com/pw/his/USS_Ronald_Reagan.htm

PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH

By: henri

henri — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 20:05:02 +0000

Gillon,

In case you don’t know, Stom Thurmond is dead. Robert Byrd still serves as a U.S. senator, (D), West Virginia, and should be barred from serving in the U.S. Senate. Strom Thurmon, was never a Grand Dragon of the KKK. In fact, rumor has it that he actually was rather fond of African Americans.

By: Old Bike Dude

Old Bike Dude — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:59:47 +0000

Uhhh herm my man. Care to venture a guess why so many South Carolinians (once part of a democratic south) including Ol Strom jumped ship. C’mon talk your bs to those educated here in SC. They would mostly be dumb enough to believe your ilk.

By: augmentin

augmentin — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 19:52:32 +0000

I suspect that since “Education” is the number #1 employer in S.C., it is no mystery why school choise has been shot down so many, many times as RHINO’s rule this state.

By: Gillon

Gillon — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 18:09:29 +0000

Good for you Hermann–it’s good to have an interest in history. I guess then you probably already know that the Republican party did indeed end slavery with the Emancipation Proclamation 1in 1863. But then it only applied to the eleven seceded states, not to the four border states than in the union and was as much of an attempt to keep Britain out of the war as it was a humanitarian gesture. The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were all passed during Radical Republican rule in the post-civil War era, and were certainly a good step forward toward human freedom, but I’m sure you also know that among their other goals was to disenfranchise Southern leaders while at the same time enfranchising blacks so they could keep the Republican party in power.
And you are of course right when you say that the Democrats had aspects of Jim Crowism until well into the twentieth century, but then so did the Republican. The key turning point comes with the civil rights movement of the 1960′s. I’m sure that you already know that this is when the Republican Party failed to stand up and be counted for black Americans. Check which party pushed through the Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965 and which party, including their Presidential candidate, of 1964Barry Goldwater, stood in opposition.
You probably also know that this decade marked the birth of the Republican party in SC as leaders such as Democrats Strom Thurmond and Floyd Spence switched parties over that issue.
And course you are correct in stating that Senator Robert Byrd of W. Va. was at one time a member of the KKK. But he was hardly the Grand Dragon and was in for only a short period which he later apologized for. As a comparison you might also research, if you haven’t already, the father of SC’s Republican party, Strom Thurmond’s comments on race when he ran for President as a segregationist Dixiecrat in 1948. Thurmond never apologized.
Finally, the last time I checked, the Republican party has a majority in both houses of the SC Legislature. If they wanted school choice, all they have to do is vote for it.
But keep plugging along Hermann, you’ll get there, and remember: “We cannot escape history… We will be remembered in spite of ourselves.” A. Lincoln, 1862

By: hermann

hermann — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:12:27 +0000

Old bike dud,
The Republicans ended slavery. The Dems are the party of Jim Crow. If I’m not mistaken, the only Grand Dragon of the KKK in the Senate has a big, fat (D) behind his name. (Though the Dems, by denying poor blacks the same school choice that Obama’s own children enjoy, have probably done more to destroy the economic future of poor African Americans than the KKK ever did.)
Maybe you should trot on down to the Barnyard Flea Market and buy yerself a U.S. history book.

By: Old Bike Dude

Old Bike Dude — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:07:36 +0000

So James what’s up with the aircraft carrier pic. Shouldn’t a “foot soldier” have a pic of something…say… a little more soldier like. I’ll be glad to send you some.
Oh…W spent 8 years getting the country in this mess. Give O a little time.
Resist the current fad among Republicans who cry nanny nanny boo boo. The evolution of the GOP in my lifetime has been from segregationist, to fear mongers, and now juvenile ADD.