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In reply to the discussion: Name a Democrat who embarrasses us like Bachmann, Palin, Gingrich, Santorum.... [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)What if...
and I think it is a valid comparison as both did something specific against a people solely because of who they were-anyhow-
what if say Hitler lived on and in the last 10 years as he was getting old, he said he was sorry and all attempting to atone to God?
Ah, I think NO he would not be forgiven either.(to put it mildly).
Ron Paul, Rand Paul, David Duke carry on George Wallace's John Birch society legacy and it still resonates within the republican party and all the tea party.
And Ron & Rand's very similiar Austrian friend Jorg Haider, well, more need not be said.
...and well, remember racism stopped Jesse Jackson in his two runs (both of which I voted for) and later denied Jerry Brown from the nomination in 1992 with the smears that went against the person who Jerry had in advance said would be his vp, and that was Jesse Jackson. Therefore, the legacy of George Wallace was/is alive and well in the democratic party as recent as the 1990s, and is alive and well in the tea party/libertarian party/republican party today as we speak.
Oh but to wonder, what would have happened had Dr. King lived, and he himself in 1972 and 1976 ran for President or for Vice President. (perhaps with Ted Kennedy)
George Wallace most certainly would not have been for that.
George Wallace almost assuredly would be at home as an elder statesman in today's tea party.
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