Thread: This guy was definitely born in the wrong century

Loy Mauch, Arkansas Lawmaker, Defended Slavery In Letters To The Editor
I'd be embarrassed to have him as my representative.

Just to be crystal clear, I'd like to point out that:
1. Just because he has an R next to his name doesn't mean his views are representative of
A. The Republican Party
B. White men in general
C. Southern white men in particular
D. Anyone of any ethnicity or party affiliation who isn't a complete ass clown
UNBELIEVABLE! This guy is actually pulling a paycheck larger than most of us for such ridiculum. Just think, when he's served out his term we'll all be paying for his comfortable retirement.

No doubt the folks at the Huffington Post were borderline orgasmic over a find like this.

When I 1st arrived on campus as an undergrad at an American university, I had a roommate from Georgia. He'd always say he was from the "New South". He didn't last long on campus.

Originally Posted by 1OldGI

Just to be crystal clear, I'd like to point out that:
1. Just because he has an R next to his name doesn't mean his views are representative of
A. The Republican Party
B. White men in general
C. Southern white men in particular
D. Anyone of any ethnicity or party affiliation who isn't a complete ass clown
UNBELIEVABLE! This guy is actually pulling a paycheck larger than most of us for such ridiculum. Just think, when he's served out his term we'll all be paying for his comfortable retirement.

No doubt the folks at the Huffington Post were borderline orgasmic over a find like this.

I believe everything you wrote. Especially about the HP part!

So.....how did he get elected? Someone must agree with his views and I don't think any of them are democrats.

Let's see...the Republican Party was created to end slavery. That happened 147 years ago, yet they're still around...
Then they were all about "Reconstruction" of the southern states. That culminated in Democratic Pres.LBJ's "Great society" and his signing of the Civil Rights Bill. Yet they're still around...
Then they became advocates of "limited gov't." akin to the antebellum Democratic Party ("state's rights"), and they're still here. Kinda makes one wonder...

Originally Posted by thebigspendur

So.....how did he get elected? Someone must agree with his views and I don't think any of them are democrats.

My guess is that the bring back slavery tirate was probably not part of his campaign speech. He probably ran on a platform of fiscal and social conservatism. Being the buckle of the bible belt, Arkansas is probably a pretty good place to pander to evangelicals. I'm sure he's the only politician ever to pull the old bait and switch

Kinda sounds like a George Wallace Democrat who finds the modern Democrat party a bit too communist to tolerate.

Originally Posted by mapleleafalumnus

Let's see...the Republican Party was created to end slavery. That happened 147 years ago, yet they're still around...
Then they were all about "Reconstruction" of the southern states. That culminated in Democratic Pres.LBJ's "Great society" and his signing of the Civil Rights Bill. Yet they're still around...
Then they became advocates of "limited gov't." akin to the antebellum Democratic Party ("state's rights"), and they're still here. Kinda makes one wonder...

While what you write is true the actual origins of the parties do go farther back then what you put down. It really goes all the way back to Jefferson and Hamilton. But as the for fathers did not want a two party system or an any party system they really didn't fully emerge till later.

Next the republican and democratic parties view points have flip through out the centuries. If you where to go back to the time of the civil war and brought back a Democrat and Republican from that time period the Republican would associate with Democratic party view points of today and the Democrat would associate withe the Republican party view points.

Gee, ya think?!?!
My point is that what goes around, comes around.

For the record, it was DEMOCRATS that had the biggest problem with the Civil Rights Act.
From The Book of Wisdom (Wikipedia)
"The bill came before the full Senate for debate on March 30, 1964 and the "Southern Bloc" of 18 southern Democratic Senators and one Republican Senator led by Richard Russell (D-GA) launched a filibuster to prevent its passage.^[10] Said Russell: "We will resist to the bitter end any measure or any movement which would have a tendency to bring about social equality and intermingling and amalgamation of the races in our (Southern) states."^[11]
The most fervent opposition to the bill came from Senator Strom Thurmond (D-SC): "This so-called Civil Rights Proposals, which the President has sent to Capitol Hill for enactment into law, are unconstitutional, unnecessary, unwise and extend beyond the realm of reason. This is the worst civil-rights package ever presented to the Congress and is reminiscent of the Reconstruction proposals and actions of the radical Republican Congress."^[12]
After 54 days of filibuster, Senators Everett Dirksen (R-IL), Thomas Kuchel (R-CA), Hubert Humphrey (D-MN), and Mike Mansfield (D-MT) introduced a substitute bill that they hoped would attract enough Republican swing votes to end the filibuster. The compromise bill was weaker than the House version in regard to government power to regulate the conduct of private business, but it was not so weak as to cause the House to reconsider the legislation.^[13]
On the morning of June 10, 1964, Senator Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) completed a filibustering address that he had begun 14 hours and 13 minutes earlier opposing the legislation. Until then, the measure had occupied the Senate for 57 working days, including six Saturdays. A day earlier, Democratic Whip Hubert Humphrey of Minnesota, the bill's manager, concluded he had the 67 votes required at that time to end the debate and end the filibuster. With six wavering senators providing a four-vote victory margin, the final tally stood at 71 to 29. Never in history had the Senate been able to muster enough votes to cut off a filibuster on a civil rights bill. And only once in the 37 years since 1927 had it agreed to cloture for any measure.<sup>[14]"

PS: Robert Byrd was a Senator from West "By God" Virginia for about 60 years and a Klansman. He died at the age of about 106 proving the theory that dung heads live forever.</sup>