EG, they’re populists instead of leftists, but still not Chicago-school, supply-side conservatives…

Yes, it was the Democrats who had a Southern Strategy from Reconstruction to when the old Jim Crow generations were dying off.

A “yellow-dog” Democrat is a Dim who says they’d rather vote for a “yellow dog” than a Republican and notoriously vote straight Democrat regardless of who it is or what they stand for and is used in a manner of praise. Yellow Dog Democrats embody loyalty.

Davis wrote on his blog that he would run as a Republican if he decides to run. He also stated that he would have to have a reason and goal to run, not just the desire to be a Congressman.

Davis was skewered by the Democrat party machine because he wasn’t a lock step liberal. They backed an incompetent, puppet, hick who was owned by the corrupt Alabama gambling interest. Davis likely would have lost given the massive Republican sweep of 2010, but he would have come much closer than Sparks.

Davis is a man of the highest integrity. I would much rather have a person like Davis, that I agree with less ideologically than say a pocket-lining crook like Spencer Bachus. We would all be better off.

I read Davis’ blog regularly. It is nice to have a reasonable perspective that isn’t always exactly as I think. His blog is called the Official Artur Davis if anyone is interested. I enjoy it because he can level and say things that we all know to be true, but that most politicians, D or R, can’t or won’t.

They let ‘anybody’ in.

And I mean that litterally.
RP is proof.

Who kept letting this guy back in?

Mew

It seems inconsistent to get rid of Specter and Scozzafava yet welcome Davis, whose views probably are closer to Specter’s than to the Tea Party.

“The central question that emerges?and it is not a parliamentary question or a question that is answered by merely consulting a catalog of the rights of American citizens, born Equal?is whether the White community in the South is entitled to take such measures as are necessary to prevail, politically and culturally, in areas in which it does not predominate numerically? The sobering answer is Yes?the White community is so entitled because, for the time being, it is the advanced race. It is not easy, and it is unpleasant, to adduce statistics evidencing the median cultural superiority of White over Negro: but it is fact that obtrudes, one that cannot be hidden by ever-so-busy egalitarians and anthropologists. The question, as far as the White community is concerned, is whether the claims of civilization supersede those of universal suffrage. The British believe they do, and acted accordingly, in Kenya, where the choice was dramatically one between civilization and barbarism, and elsewhere; the South, where the conflict is by no means dramatic, as in Kenya, nevertheless perceives important qualitative differences between its culture and the Negroes?, and intends to assert its own….

“National Review believes that the South’s premises are correct. It is more important for the community, anywhere in the world, to affirm and live by civilized standards, than to bow to the demands of the numerical majority. Sometimes it becomes impossible to assert the will of a minority, in which case it must give way, and the society will regress; sometimes the numerical minority cannot prevail except by violence: then it must determine whether the prevalence of its will is worth the terrible price of violence.”

http://tinyurl.com/8xml62r
also
http://www.brinklindsey.com/?p=131

Buckley was wrong.
And it wasn’t too long before he admitted he was wrong.

But in the 1950s, the National Review was prepared to allow Southern states’ rights to trump the rights of individual black citizens who lived there.

What ARE you referring to? When were Republicans on the wrong side of the “things, like civil rights”?

Was it when the party was founded largely to fight slavery? Was it when the Republicans in Congress voted in a higher percentage for the Civil Rights Bill than did the Democrats?

Or by “right” were you referring to the racist wing of the Democrat Party? But then why “we”?

Please please please explain. We await with breathless anticipation.

Reason for switch: President Obama’s support of SSM (Nardelli is Catholic)

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/29/penn-democratic-leader-defects-to-gop-cites-catholic-faith-as-reason/