Today's Burning Question: How Will Democrats Destroy America Next?

This just in: the party of Abe Lincoln would you like to know that Democrats founded the KKK. They also were tacitly responsible for the murder of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. who, by the by, the same party would like you to know was a staunch Republican. In other news, the Dems have also been implicated by the Rs in the annual flooding of the Nile delta, the failure of the Apollo 13 mission, and the abduction and murder of the Lindberg baby.

I'm actually only kidding about some of those. The others are, sadly, actual charges being levied right now in the great state of Maryland. Read here for more foolishness.

To whit, the Democrats were the dominant party in the south during and after the civil war and Lincoln was, at least at the time, a Republican. The reason there were no Republicans in the south? They didn't exist before Lincoln became president. Lincoln helped to found the party under the notion that the federal government had more control over the country than individual states did. If you believe that is the current Republican party platform, I wouldn't be surprised given their behavior in the past six years. If you look at the traditional Republican standard, however, you'll see that in the past fifty years or so, the party has most definately been advocates of states' rights over federal control. Our good friend Ronald Reagan certainly saw to that.

I chose to read this as a sign of how desperate the Rs are getting. Clearly they can't win the election on their own merit any longer, so they have to resort to distorting history to try to convince black voters not to vote. What this really should show black voters is how little the Republicans think of them to believe that they are so unintelligent that they will fall for such a silly claim.

Speaking of silly claims, it is day 7 in the Pandering Watch and we've got more from everybody's favorite born-again Jew, George Allen. On a CNN interview the other night, the Distinguished Gentleman got up close and personal, Barbara Walters-style, to talk about his heritage. My favorite moment was when he got tearful over it all and announced that from here on out, the fight against intolerance and anti-semitism is "personal." As opposed to before, when in Allen's mind intolerance had a free ride because it didn't effect him or his family. Read WaPo's take on the whole deal here.