why would a tea partier support the Civil Rights Act?

[Enrique]

they shouldn't. Opposition to the CRA is perfectly consistent with all the tea party rhetoric. It's directly descended from the strand of conservatism that opposed the CRA at the time.

And now that it's out in the open, it doesn't make sense for Rand Paul and the rest of the extreme conservatives to deny their position. Of course they have to deny it, but it doesn't make sense. I've been listening to RW radio, the hosts are pretending to support the CRA, but callers are calling in and saying they are against it.

The elites in the GOP have lost control of their base.

[polichick]

1. They created the monsters, who are gonna eat 'em alive. Awwww, poor babies...

NOT!

[murielm99]

2. Of course. It makes perfect sense. At its roots, all this anger has

always been racist.

The discontent and the anger from people who want to "take their country back" stems from the fact that Obama is black. For them, change means brown and black people taking over. It means people with funny names having good jobs and positions of authority. We already knew that. I thought they would keep using coded language like Nixon with his "welfare queens," and other republicans with similar coded phrases. I didn't expect it to be out in the open so quickly.

[political_Dem]

3. I just wonder why they are scampering around trying to deny what Paul said.

Since they are the ones who crowed that only their "ideas are right" and that they purport to be "fair and balanced" (as they worship the mighty word of Faux), they should be proud of this view.

They are always saying that Democrats are "flip-floppers" who never have a strong ground on any position. In that spirit, they should say what they mean and let the country judge them on their opinions.

[political_Dem]

4. Dupe. I'm sorry for that.

[kwolf68]

5. Same group of people

Just with new names and new messenger boys.

THIS, they (the right) say is why they lost elections. Not Conservative enough. So it's time to come out and oppose one of the most landmark pieces of legislation in American history that signaled that we as a nation had actually progressed somewhat.

Now these dimbulbs want to take us back BEFORE such legislation was passed.

And this is just the tip of the ice berg. After we flush rights for blacks down the shitter, then comes gays (of course), disabled people, and that ole' tricky thing called women's suffrage? Shit, lets get rid of that. Hell, before you know it, these mutherfuckers will be arguing its OK to own another person (black of course) and it's not the federal government's business to tell you otherwise, that it's a states' rights issue.

These people are neanderthals, but the GREAT thing about the rise of this movement is we can FINALLy expose them for what they are. I say bring it on. Us Liberals have been trying to figure out how to make "Conservative" a dirty word much like years of propaganda has made "Liberal" a dirty word...

well, here's how you do it. Just let 'em speak.

[damntexdem]

6. Because he realized he was getting in deep political doo doo for not claiming to.

So he's supporting it -- as Lenin said, like a noose supports a dying man.

If Rand had his way, he'd support the CRA all the way to its repeal.