MUST READ: Republican clip on gop.com about Republican woman - 1917!!!

[debbierlus]

From the GOP.com website:

Republican Women


Once again the Republican Party was the vanguard in relation to women. In 1917, Jeannette Rankin, a Montana Republican, became the first woman to serve in the House. Committed to her pacifist beliefs, she was the only member of Congress to vote against entry into both World War I and World War II.

Shortly after Ms. Rankin's election to Congress, the 19th Amendment was passed in 1919. The amendment's journey to ratification had been a long and difficult one. Starting in 1896, the Republican Party became the first major party to officially favor women's suffrage. That year, Republican Sen. A. A. Sargent of California introduced a proposal in the Senate to give women the right to vote. The proposal was defeated four times in the Democratic-controlled Senate. When the Republican Party regained control of Congress, the Equal Suffrage Amendment finally passed (304-88). Only 16 Republicans opposed the amendment.

When the amendment was submitted to the states, 26 of the 36 states that ratified it had Republican-controlled legislatures. Of the nine states that voted against ratification, eight were controlled by Democrats. Twelve states, all Republican, had given women full suffrage before the federal amendment was finally ratified.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

They go back to NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN & THE SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT............

Back when the Republicans were modern democrats...........

I AM DYING!

[w4rma]

1. Republicans were Democratic on social issues, but never on economic

issues. What an economic conservative really is is what Democrats were and are. Dems used to be conservative on both social and economic issues and Republicans were liberal on both. Now Democrats are old-time conservative on economic issues, but liberal on social issues. While Republicans are "liberal" on economics (less regulations = liberalized economics) and conservative on social issues.

I always laugh at these so-called "conservatives" who don't even know what conservative means.

FDR brought into the Democratic Party many former-Republicans after the Stock Market crashed who lost faith in their "liberal" Republican economics but never changed on their liberal social beliefs.

The Parties switched places on social beliefs when Republicans began to court social conservatives from the Democratic Party who had lost their economic "conservative" roots in the 1950s.

[librechik]

2. In 1964 Johnson signed the Civil Rights Law and every racist in the South

fled to the Republican party-- because of course the Republicans are the party of Lincoln. There had been many Democrat racists in the South before then, but they all changed parties gradually, over about a decade after 1964.

Neither party has been the same since.

Blacks learned to vote Democratic, as it was Democrats who helped them--and racist Conservatives, now mostly in the Republican Party, conspire still to keep them down.

I'm not saying there aren't racist Democrats left, there are. Some.

But the vast majority of Republicans either are racists or accept and nourish what's left of the Confederate South among them for political reasons. It's all over their platform like stink on old fish. Lee Atwater, who invented the whole idea lamented "We can't say n**** anymore. Now we have to say 'tax cuts.' But every racist Republican knows when we say tax cuts we mean n*****."

That's who they have become, sadly. Lincoln's party is dead dead dead. Lincoln's party is going to kill African-American New Orleans and turn it white and Republican.