Hahahahahha and puke MLK was a ReTHUG????

[malaise]

Martin Luther King was a Republican and John Kennedy wouldn't support this Democrat Party - ReTHUG on Washington Journal.
The lady who called and spoke about Limbaugh - 'she is one lying nigger' - he said that on air and got away with it.

[Turbineguy]

1. George Wallace

was a Democrat.

Sometimes we live in a strange world.

[theothersnippywshrub]

2. Here is King's endorsement in the 1964 presidential election.

I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/george/george071200.html

[malaise]

3. When did facts have anything to do with

ReTHUGS? :hi:

[hobbit709]

4. Rethugs are poster children for "Factually Challenged"

[H2O Man]

5. Martin Luther King, Sr.,

was a republican. And Martin, Jr., had a closer relationship with VP Nixon than with Senator Kennedy, going into the 1960 campaign. It was JFK's call to Mrs. King that changed the way the King men probably would have voted.

King wrote that, had JFK lived, he had decided to endorse him for re-election. After '64, of course, Martin was firmly in the progressive left.

[sarge43]

6. I understand that MLK Sr was a Republican.

Story goes that Sr endorsed Nixon. MLK Jr called Kennedy and apologized. Kennedy sighed and answered, "We all have fathers."

Current pack of Repugs wouldn't recognize truth if it bit them in the ass. If they're breathing, they're lying.

[theothersnippywshrub]

7. MLK Sr. originally endorsed Nixon but switched shortly before the election.

In 1960, King refrained from endorsing anyone for president. King had a gut reaction that John F. Kennedy was marginally better on civil rights; Kennedy had called King's wife Coretta while King languished in a Georgia jail. Meanwhile, Bobby Kennedy worked on the judge to allow King to post a bond. Nonetheless, King felt it better for the cause to stay neutral. His father, Martin Luther King, Sr., originally endorsed Nixon, but switched to Kennedy after his son was released from jail two weeks before the election.

King's neutrality changed dramatically by 1964. King declared that though Barry Goldwater was not racist, his positions gave aid and comfort to racists:

I had no alternative but to urge every Negro and white person of goodwill to vote against Mr. Goldwater and to withdraw support from any Republican candidate that did not publicly disassociate himself from Senator Goldwater and his philosophy.

http://www.nationalreview.com/george/george071200.html

[sarge43]

8. Thanks for the background info. n/t