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struggle4progress

(118,292 posts)
Sat Oct 6, 2012, 11:47 PM Oct 2012

Will Republican Party repudiate cranks? Not likely. They ARE the GOP

... Republican Rep. Loy Mauch calls the Confederate flag a "symbol of Jesus Christ." He demanded, unsuccessfully that Hot Springs remove a statute of Abraham Lincoln from its convention center ...

Rep. Jon Hubbard of Jonesboro has written a book full of incendiary statements, including this: "...the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise" ...

Former Republican legislator Charlie Fuqua, running for a House seat in the Batesville area, has also written a book, "God's Law: The Only Political Solution," in which he modestly proposes execution of repeat criminal offenders and expulsion from the U.S. of every Muslim ...

http://www.arktimes.com/ArkansasBlog/archives/2012/10/06/will-republican-party-repudiate-cranks-not-likely-they-are-the-gop

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