Fact Finder wrote:Ronald Reagan was fond of saying that the United States of America is the only country on Earth, now or at any time in history, that was founded not on race or nationality, but on an ideal.
He was also fond of using racialized dog whistle politics, most prominently invoking apocryphal "cadillac driving welfare queens," and declaring his unwavering support of "states rights," in all places 1960s Philadelphia, Mississippi - where the bodies of three murdered civil rights workers were hardly cold.
The Republican Party is no longer the party of Honest Abe.
Its the party of Jesse Helms and Rush Limbaugh, who has routinely called Obama "the little black man-child" and played parody songs with titles like "Barack the Magic Negro."
With any luck, McCain will win and switch back to his moderate 2000 self and restore some much needed sanity to what is increasingly a fringe party.