Daily Kos on
the “Party of Lincoln”:
The Trent Lott affair did not cleanse the GOP of its craven flirtations
with racist, segregationist, neo-Confederate types in the South who
catapulted the party into national prominance. This shit is so ingrained
into the Party of Lincoln, that it doesn’t think twice about honoring the
father of the Confederacy, supports the Confederate flag, nominates and
renominates judges who fight for the rights of cross burners and work to
close loopholes in laws banning interracial dating, and that mischaractarizes
university admissions guidelines as quotas, when they merely provide points
for being a member of a disadvantaged community (which could be race-based,
or also help under-priviledged or rural whites).