A somewhat popular blogger hitting softballs:
George Bush, lying again:
“I come from a family committed to civil rights,” Bush said. “My faith tells me that we are all children of God — equally loved, equally cherished, equally entitled to the rights He grants us all.
George H.W. Bush:
In 1964, Bush ran for the U.S. Senate. In the Republican primary, Bush ran first with 62,985 votes, but his total was 44.1 percent, not the required majority. He was thus forced into a runoff primary with Jack Cox, also of Houston, the 1962 Republican gubernatorial nominee, who had 45,561 votes (31.9 percent) in the primary. A third candidate, Robert Morris of Dallas, who had been a member of the Senate Internal Security Committee and an ardent constitutionalist and "cold warrior," polled 28,279 ballots (19.8 percent).
Bush easily prevailed in the GOP runoff, with 49,751 (62.1 percent) to Cox's 30,333 (37.9 percent). As the Republican nominee, Bush then aimed his campaign at the incumbent Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, making an issue of Yarborough's support of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. At the time many Southern politicians (including the Republican Senator John Tower of Texas) opposed the legislation on constitutional or libertarian grounds.
Bush called Yarborough an "extremist" and a "left wing demagogue" while Yarborough said Bush was a "carpetbagger" trying to buy a Senate seat "just as they would buy a seat on the New York Stock Exchange." Bush lost in a Democratic landslide but ran considerably ahead of the GOP presidential nominee, Senator Barry M. Goldwater of Arizona.
Nice. But I think he forgets this:
When Jeb [Bush] was asked, in 1994, what he would do for African-Americans if elected governor of the Sunshine State, he said, "probably nothing."
As well as Poppy bringing us the Willie Horton ad, courtesy of Lee Atwater, who, when dying, begged for God's forgiveness for the terrible things he had done, and Roger Ailes, who now runs the fair and balanced Fox News.
But most of all, I think the Bush family's commitment to civil rights will be remembered for this:
(CBS) Florida's top elections officials and a leading U.S. civil rights group said on Tuesday they had settled a lawsuit that alleged Florida systematically excluded thousands of minority voters from the 2000 presidential election.
The class-action lawsuit, filed in January 2001 after George W. Bush claimed the U.S. presidency by just 537 Florida votes, alleged election officials systematically kept blacks away from voting booths by illegally dropping them from voter rolls, improperly handling their registrations so they did not appear on voter lists or by simply turning them away from polling places…
The NAACP had said the chaotic aftermath of the 2000 presidential election, won by Mr. Bush over former Vice President Al Gore after a fierce five-week court battle, provided evidence of "massive disenfranchisement of people of color."
The settlement will help restore voters improperly purged from voter lists, improve voter registration methods and help fix communication problems at polling stations.
When Jeb and George purged thousands of African American citizens from the voting rolls. And, later, admitted it. And then did it again in 2004.
We won't even get into Grampa trading with the Nazis.
That's some long family tradition of being committed to civil rights.
If the Gee Oh Pee would really like to court African American voters, they could, for starters, let them fucking vote in the country of their birth.
The other thing they could do is purge the awful, lawless, anti-egalitarian Bush family from their party and politics forever and ever.
Seriously.
I mean it. That would really help.
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