SPEAKER RYAN - PLEASE CUT THE HYPOCRISY

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday delivered a scathing rebuke of  Donald Trump, warning that the GOP presidential front-runner cannot engage in "evasion" or "games" when it comes to rejecting white supremacy groups.*

Well, wasn't that the goal of the Southern Strategy - to win over the white supremacists to enable Republicans to win elections?  Of course you are not supposed to admit it out loud, but a big slug of the Republican Party ARE White Supremacists.  There just are not enough wealthy people to win elections, especially the Presidency. Who is Ryan kidding?  I'm sorry to say that Trump is with the base of the Republican Party.  He is a follower not a leader.

The Republican from Louisiana, Representative Steve Scalise, is the House majority whip, and he finally admitted yesterday that he did appear at an international white supremacist conference in 2002 as an “honored guest and speaker.” The organization is the brainchild of avowed white supremacist David Duke with an innocent-sounding name European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO). Prior to adopting the name EURO, Duke’s white supremacist organization was called the National Organization for European American Rights (NOFEAR), and was proudly touted as a “civil rights” organization fighting the alleged “massive discrimination” faced by whites from the nation’s growing population of minorities.**

I object to Republicans saying they are the party of Lincoln.  They used to be but no longer.  I was a Republican before Goldwater and was proud to be a Republican because we voted overwhelmingly for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.***  Can you imaging the Republican Party doing anything like that today?  Today Republicans spend their time thinking of ways to get around the Voting Rights Act and, instead, find ways to decrease the number of minority voters.

*  http://thehill.com/homenews/house/271267-ryan-denounces-trump-over-kkk-controversy-there-can-be-no-evasion-and-no-games
As for 112-24
** http://www.politicususa.com/2014/12/30/gop-house-leader-honored-guest-speaker-white-supremacist-conference.html
*** In the House, Republicans voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 138 for  and only 34 no.   The Senate Republicans voted for the Act 27 for and only 6 against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
As for the Voting Rights Act of 1965,  Republicans voted 112 for and  24 against in the House and Senate voted 30 for and only 1 against: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965