What else needs to be said?

"When Robert Kennedy ran for president, we supported him. We're proud of it. And if he had lived and been elected, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years." --Bill Clinton

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Cynthia Tucker chimes in on racists and the GOP.

As was illustrated by the Confederate flag wavers who went after Georgia Governor Barnes:

Whenever it is politically expedient, Republicans cozy up to segregationists, Confederate sympathizers, anti-immigrationists and other mossbacks who still resent the civil rights movement.

To show how the Republicans have accepted racists into their mix to win elections, she points out how Bush, while criticizing Lott, has appointed racists to high office:

In 1998, John Ashcroft, then a U.S. senator, was interviewed by Southern Partisan, the last redoubt of secessionism. Among other quaint views, the magazine celebrates the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, defends slavery and holds in high regard Nathan Bedford Forrest, a founder of the Ku Klux Klan.

Ashcroft praised Southern Partisan.

"Your magazine also helps set the record straight. You've got a heritage of doing that, of defending Southern patriots like Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis. Traditionalists must do more. I've got to do more. We've all got to stand up and speak in this respect, or else we'll be taught that these people were giving their lives, subscribing their sacred fortunes and their honor to some perverted agenda."

She brings up a few other good topics in this well written piece.

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