On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:48 PM, Gautam Mukunda wrote:
--- Warren Ockrassa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You seem to be suggesting here that no Klan members are Republicans. Are you certain?
Or do you mean instead that no elected Republican official would show public support for the Klan?
The latter - or, more accurately, that none _should_ (I'm sure it's possible to find one who has), and that if one did, everyone would attack him/her, and they _should_ do so.
Agreed on all those counts, yeah. The last time I heard of anyone marginally associated with the Republican party also being associated with the Klan, it was David Duke, and IIRC he was more or less pilloried for it.
The fact that Robert Byrd - the seniormost Democrat in the Senate - is a former Klan leader is an embarassment to the whole country.
It's a problem. It's a significant one. But there've been some rather reactionary sentiments to come from other elected Republican officials. I seem to recall problems with both Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond, but can't remember the particulars.
But hey, there's a new Pope with a history in the Hitlerjugend, so who are we to judge? ;)
-- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seven-Year Mirror" http://www.nightwares.com/books/ockrassa/Flat_Out.pdf
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