Racism is nothing new to Republicans. Right wingers quit the Democratic Party in anger over Harry Truman's desegregation of the armed forces. One-time "Dixiecrats" like Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms joined the GOP, which embraced these racists and their racism.

Nixon's "Southern Strategy" depended on racist policies and won support from racists. Reagan launched his 1980 campaign for president in Philadelphia Mississippi as a tribute to anti-civil rights lynching. Bush I race-baited using the Black face of "Willie" Horton to scare suburban Whites into voting for him then vetoed the updated Civil Rights Act while lying about it.

Bush II vetoed a Hate Crimes law in Texas, then lied about it in the 2000 debates. Bush II refused to meet with the family of James Byrd, the victim of a vicious racially based torture / murder. Bush II embraced the avowed racist Bob Jones III during the 2000 campaign, and his operatives accused John McCain of father a "Black Baby" to turn the tide in South Carolina.

No wonder Blacks voted more than 9 to 1 for Gore over Bush. Gore would have won Florida easily if racists Jeb Bush, Katherine Harris and Clay Roberts hadn't illegally thrown 10,000s of Black voters off the lists and thrown out several more legal Black votes.

Bush II continues to champion racist policies and nominate racist judges. Once in office, obtained through racist tactics in Florida, Bush II lied about policies to help deserving minorities attend quality colleges and grad schools. This after the highly unqualified W Bush got into Yale and Harvard through family ties and pulled strings. Bush II actually claimed these efforts mandated quotas - just like his lying old man. Even the right wing US Supreme Court rejected that dishonest racist analysis.

Republican racism just keeps rolling along. Jeb Bush added even more innocent Black voters to his phony felon list in Florida. After Katherine Harris had to admit wrongdoing in a lawsuit settlement, you might think they'd have learned better. Maybe they have. They learned the lesson that they can prosper through racism even after getting caught breaking the law if they just keep throwing out more Black votes and voters.