which is the worse slime ball?

The Democratic party WAS the southern racist party until sometime in the 1920s...

They were still the party of conservative southerners right up until Nixon's southern strategy... and for probably 20 years past Nixon.

My racist grandmother (from Georgia) was a Democrat. My conservative parents were Republicans...

I'm a liberal and a Democrat, but I have no association with the party of the old south,

...when civil rights measures under Truman spurred Stromm Thurman and others to balk and form the Dixiecrat Party.

Then, on top of domestic reasons, Southern segregationists were Soviet propagandists' wet dreams come true in a decolonializing world. The public lynchings, murders in the night, burning crosses, dogs, fire hoses, beatings, everything the Rooskies could want to undermine America in the eyes of the world, foaming bigoted southerners handed them on a platter...

... just like they're doing today.

And the fact that Hillary and Elizabeth Warren were once Republicans explains away anything they might have done wrong, too.

Right? No? Am I getting warm, at least?

for "suspect conduct" and other "bar complaints". So to say his behavior was "ignored" as a Democrat is, of course, not true. Even when appointed as a temporary replacement for a circuit court judge who had died, the county DA had reservations about him after doing a background check. By this time he had switched parties. At the local level, a lot of politicians switch parties to give themselves the best chance of winning the seat they are going after. So, rush is full of shit once again.

You just didn't run for any local office in the South as a Republican in the South in the 70s. The Democratic primary was the big battle and the Republican candidate, if one even ran, almost always lost.

That's when voting blue at the bottom of the ticket and red at the top happened frequently in the South, and did pretty much until the Tea Party movement.

Edit to add: Obviously the "blue" shade in the South then was awfully pale. Not defending that era's Southern Democrats, many of whom were atrocious and would have, as Moore did, left the party as things changed.

He switched in '92 when Bill won and the '94 midterms were coming up, too.

So again, likely opportunistic reasoning for both his perverted political and perverted sexual conquests.

and a repug while lying about it.

Take your OxyContin and STFU Limbaugh

You know which Democrat wasn't at the mall cruising for 14-year-olds? DOUG JONES.

He finally got appointed to fill a vacancy by a Republican governor and switched his party affiliation, whereupon he started winning.

Democrats, even in Alabama in those olden days, didn't want him.

is calling out Moore for being a Democrat perv. Pot meet Kettle. One would think Jeff would refrain from this kind of topic.

will want to spend millions and years investigating this.

is that Limbaugh and others of his ilk REFUSE to admit or acknowledge that political IDEOLOGY has stayed constant, but the identifying labels have not.

No "Southern Democrat" of the 1960's would be caught dead within a mile of the word "Liberal" today.

This bullshit extends all the way to blaming the Democratic party for the genesis of the KKK. To suggest that the founders of that group were liberal progressives is laughable.

The names have changed. NOT the ideology. Roy Moore was NEVER a liberal, full stop.

It doesn’t even matter that he’s a Republican now. He’s a pedophile who doesn’t deserve to win, and that is all.

Rush is a tribalist turd who needs to be scooped up and dumped into the trash (in a non-literal way).

The Devil, er, Democrat made me do it!!!

we will never relive those days...........sigh

We knew that was coming

Or was it the fact that the Democratic Party isn't the party of white supremacy/ethno-nationalism anymore? Is that it?

... I think it's telling that this was, apparently, the *best* thing he could come up with to defend Moore.

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Granted, they tend to more likely be Rethuglicon but that has to do with views more than anything else.

Southern dems became GOPers because of dem party's advocating civil rights.

Party affiliations flipped in 60s-70s.

Because he knew Democrats would give him the boot while amoral Republicans would welcome his "manly" behavior with open arms.

they prevented Garland from being seated and they prevented Hillary from being seated, and THEY ARE NOT PERVERTS