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In the 1964 Presidential election Team LBJ produced a children's coloring book showing Barry Goldwater dressed in KKK robes. I hadn't heard that before so I went looking for more info. It comes from a book from several years ago entitled "Anything for a Vote" by historian Joesph Cummins. The Politics of Personal Destruction | PoliNation
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Originally Posted by polination
Johnson put together a group of sixteen dirty tricks operatives who were in close contact with him inside the White House....They... wrote letters to columnist Ann Landers claiming to be ordinary citizens terrified of about the idea of Goldwater as president, and published a Goldwater joke book “You Can Die Laughing” and a children’s coloring book showing Goldwater dressed in KKK robes.
In fact Goldwater was always way ahead of the curve on the issue of diversity. As a military officer he was proud to have worked in an all-black unit, and later was an unabashed supporter of allowing gays in the military, before it became fashionable. Barry Goldwater on the Military Ban
In the North, Team LBJ said Barry was KKK, while in the South they spread the true Goldwater record to white voters, calculating that Southern white voters would be turned off. Cummins rated the 1964 LBJ campaign as the #1 dirtiest ever.
So "call them racist" for Democrats and liberals is nothing new--not even recent. It goes back just about a half century now...and counting.
Usual 'loud quiet' from all the usual suspect lefty posters. They'll accuse Limbaugh of racism, without proof, ad infinitum. They'll accused Romney over an 'unnamed advisor' who allegedly uttered the word 'Anglo Saxon.'
But when confronted with their own parties' history of race-baiting, they scatter like roaches after the light switch is flipped.
Republican and Conservatives are synonymous with racism and bigotry. The Conservative party is supported by the most racist, most racially insensitive, most bigoted people in this country. The party counts among its constituents people who support the Klan and the Klan.
Pubs can't get away from this. Maybe the party should do more to dispel this notion other than putting a few blacks in high positions to give the appearance of inclusion. The GOP has a horrible record in civil rights and this is common knowledge.
Republican and Conservatives are synonymous with racism and bigotry. The Conservative party is supported by the most racist, most racially insensitive, most bigoted people in this country. The party counts among its constituents people who support the Klan and the Klan.
Pubs can't get away from this. Maybe the party should do more to dispel this notion other than putting a few blacks in high positions to give the appearance of inclusion. The GOP has a horrible record in civil rights and this is common knowledge.
The Dem party supported more KKK members than any other one. This Dem administration is the most racist I've ever seen in my life!
True enough about LBJ. Also recall the famous television ad showing a little girl in a field picking flowers, while a voice was counting down from ten; I think they then superimposed a nuclear explosion, indicating that a vote for Goldwater was a vote for nuking little girls picking flowers.
True enough about LBJ. Also recall the famous television ad showing a little girl in a field picking flowers, while a voice was counting down from ten; I think they then superimposed a nuclear explosion, indicating that a vote for Goldwater was a vote for nuking little girls picking flowers.
How did Barry Goldwater vote on the Civil Rights Act of 1964?
He voted against it on constitutional grounds. He had voted for every other civil rights bill before it.
"I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." Barry Goldwater
Goldwater took his oath to uphold the Constitution seriously.
Last edited by whogo; 07-26-2012 at 03:57 PM..
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