I'm sorry, but this has to be the dumbest thing I have ever heard...

On Washington Journal just now, a black man called in from Round Rock, Texas saying that he was a republican. He then went to to expain why... "because Abraham Lincoln was a republican and he freed the slaves". :wow: That's it, the only reason he gave.

He did go on to say that he was disgusted with the republicans and how they are behaving right now, but he will just stay home and not vote, saying, "I just can't vote for a Democrat or Independent".

I wonder if he knows what J. C. Watt's father has to say about this. :shrug:

:crazy:

it's good if Republicans stay home on election day, that's about the best we can hope for considering folks who are as delusional as he is. :crazy:

and how this fellow must not know about the Dixie-Crats who are now on "his side"?! You're right, best if he stays home and it's just :crazy:. Also a little :scared: actually.

... whether he goes to his polling place or not.

Yes, my tin foil Stetson is firmly on my head.

Opposite ends of the spectrum.

The main reason that the Democrats held on to the South for so long was because they weren't the party of Lincoln. And I've known many many older African Americans who voted straight Republican for a good portion of their lives, simply because it was the party of Lincoln. Sounds like this gentleman might be one of the few holdouts. Nice to see that he'll be staying home this fall. I fully expect that the fundy community vote will be way way down due to this same sort of reasoning.

"I voted for * because he's a Texan."

"I voted for * because he's cute."

True statements, embarrassingly from members of my own family.

That's my neighbor down the street.

Do you live in my neighborhood? :sarcasm:

Caller claimed the Titans' Albert Haynesworth assault on Cowboys' player Gurode was Clinton's fault.

I kid you not. Something about the permissive atmosphere instilled by Bill Clinton caused this poor football player to go beserk and inflict an injury requiring 30 stitches on member of the opposing team.

Lincoln penned the emancipation proclamation, And in many instances the southern Democrats were segregationists. But, 100 yrs after Lincoln, JFK- RFK- and LYNDON B JOHNSON woke up, had the courage to stand up to the 'party line' and embrace the concept of CIVIL RIGHTS- Especially LBJ and RFK- what a different America we would be living in had RFK not been killed- and what a President he would have made- He was sincerely committed and dedicated to equal rights for all human kind.

Martin Luther King SR. was a 'Republican'- a 'lifelong' republican, but he changed his affiliation when Nixon ran against JFK, and was a dedicated Democrat from then on, speaking to, and championing the Democratic platform until his death.

Wonder bread, used to build strong bodies 12 ways- Now it is seen as junk food- full of empty refined carbs- and good for building large, (but not strong) bodies.

If this caller can't bring himself to vote for a person based on the fact that they are "a Dem or an Independent"- then he's become the enemy he's had to fight against all his life- Judging people as inferior or bad based on anything other than who THEY ( the individual ) are. That is bigotry, and prejudice in all its putrid 'glory'-