ANOTHER GOP Lie?? Jackie Robinson, "Famous Republican"?

yeah, it's hard to pinpoint the exact party of historic figures. Someone may have assumed he was a republican because he helped campaign for some. Also, your point about the party then and now is a valid one. Nelson Rockefeller might not be any more comfortable in today's Republican party as JFK would be in today's Democrat party. Another intereting historical falsehood is the party Dan White (the guy who killed Harvey Milk). A lot of supporters of Harvey Milk Day have wrongly stated that he was a Republican.. but he was a lifelong Democrat.

I can't say he'd be any happier with the democratic party either. None of us should be happy with either side. Personally I like the idea I heard yesterday. Take 935,000,000 and buy off all the congress and senate. To get the money they have to leave office and never run again. Money well spent.

Well as usual Annie, you're using a left wing blog as if it were a reliable source. Now I'm not saying the RNC is being honest since they used the common lie that "Jackie Robinson became the first African-American to play major league baseball in the United States" when in fact the first was Bud Fowler over 50 years earlier. I don't know why people can't stop spreading the Jackie Robinson lie, but I digress. As many others have said, both parties have changed. That's just how things go. Frankly, the Republican party isn't even the same party it was in the 90s when one of the platforms was to get rid of the Department of Education. Instead, under Bush and a republican majority they doubled the size of it.

I am actually more concerned about the lies that are happening now rather than someone who obviously screwed up their research. Besides, Jackie Robinson fame is centered around his physical abilities about baseball not his political affiliation. The GOP now is far different than was in 1964 just like the Democratic Party was far different then than it is now. Things have changed in both parties.

The GOP fully believes in both "Manifest Destiny" AND "The Ends Justifies The Means", so it's no surprise that they will say anything to get people to come to their side. They know that the most diehard members won't question or fact check anything they say, and they know that others they want to add to their rolls won't either since they mostly target un- or under-educated people. From his auto-biography comes the following, which immediately precede his comment asbout Hitler's Germany: [i]I was not as sold on the Republican party as I was on the governor. Every chance I got, while I was campaigning, I said plainly what I thought of the right-wing Republicans and the harm they were doing. I felt the GOP was a minority party in term of numbers of registered voters and could not win unless they updated their social philosophy and sponsored candidates and principles to attract the young, the black, and the independent voter. I said this often from public, and frequently Republican, platforms. By and large Republicans had ignored blacks and sometimes handpicked a few servile leaders in the black community to be their token "nig*gers". How would I sound trying to go all out to sell Republicans to black people? They're not buying. They know better. I admit freely that I think, live, and breathe black first and foremost. That is one of the reasons I was so committed to the governor and so opposed to Senator Barry Goldwater. Early in 1964 I wrote a Speaking Out piece for The Saturday Evening Post. A Barry Goldwater victory would insure that the GOP would be completely the white man's party. What happened at San Francisco when Senator Goldwater became the Republican standard-bearer confirmed my prediction. I wasn’t altogether caught of guard by the victory of the reactionary forces in the Republican party, but I was appalled by the tactics they used to stifle their liberal opposition. I was a special delegate to the convention through an arrangement made by the Rockefeller office. That convention was one of the most unforgettable and frightening experiences of my life. The hatred I saw was unique to me because it was hatred directed against a white man. It embodied a revulsion for all he stood for, including his enlightened attitude toward black people. [/i]http://www.framinghamdems.org/JackRob.html The only reason he supported any Republican at all was because of that individual candidate's willingness to consider multi-racial thinking. He mainly despised the GOP because they espoused and/or embraced bigotry and racial division.