The Republican party is well down the road to bringing back Jim Crow.

[Cyrano]

State issued photo ID cards to vote. A minimum of voting machines distributed to black districts. A party that practices Richard Nixon's "Southern Strategy" to this very day. Defenders of George Allen who insist that macaca is "a made up word." Phone banks set up at election time to call black voters and tell them they can vote tomorrow. Police blockades (as have been set up here in Florida) to misdirect black voters to the wrong polling places.

Republicans know that 95% of blacks don't vote for them, so they've decided to not let blacks vote at all. (For the time being, they've managed to turn brown people into the "new blacks." If you're brown, you must be either an Islamofascist terrorist, or an illegal alien.)

You don't read much about the KKK or white supremacist groups these days. But they haven't gone away. They're part and parcel of the Republican party.

You just have to love their argument that it was the solid Democratic south that practiced Jim Crow. That's true, but it all changed the day that Lyndon Johnson signed the civil rights act and all the bigots fled into the open arms of the waiting Republican party.

Keeping black people and brown people away from the polls is just one of their tactics for stealing elections. Perhaps not as effective as Diebold, but big enough to make a difference.

I suppose we were all stupid enough to believe that we'd actually won the major battles of the civil rights wars of the '60s. But Republicans are like fleas on a dog. You can deal with them temporarily, but they always come back.

How come we don't have the same dedication to good that they seem to have to evil? Maybe, this time around, we need to drive stakes through their hearts ... umm, make that chests.

(Edited for spelling.)

[RethugAssKicker]

1. You're not exaggerating one bit !!!.... These fuckers

have been empowered since Reagan!!

They're extremely racist, and are constantly looking for ways to keep the black man down !

[yorkiemommie1]

2. i said this when they came into power

that they would be moving people to the back of the bus.

[Cyrano]

3. Last week, Randi Rhodes related a story about a school bus driver

in Louisiana who told black children to go sit in back of the bus.

It seems that the Republican message has gotten out and the bigots are coming out of the woodworks. I'm going to stock up on bug spray.