Mike Huckabee to Trump: Make Democrats 'eat' the fact they erected many Confederate monuments

[TomSea]

Mike Huckabee to Trump: Make Democrats 'eat' the fact they erected many Confederate monuments
by Naomi Lim | Aug 20, 2017

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee said Sunday that President Trump should make "Democrats eat the fact" they erected many of the Confederate monuments they are now saying should be removed.

"Let's make the Democrats eat the fact that it was Democrats who built those statues," Huckabee told Fox News on "Sunday Morning Futures."

Huckabee accused Democrats of resisting racial equality "all the way up through" the 1960s and called on them to stop hosting "Jefferson-Jackson Dinners" because they celebrate slave-owning presidents. Democratic organizations routinely hold the dinners, which honor the party's co-founders, as fundraising opportunities.

Continued: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mike-huckabee-to-trump-make-democrats-eat-the-fact-they-erected-many-confederate-monuments/article/2632076

[Cripplecreek]

Tough talking fat boy. Trump won't make them eat anything because the democrats would elect the grand dragon today if he ran as a democrat.

That's not a slap at Trump or anything, its just a fact that the democrats would ignore the facts as they always do.

[dfwgator]

Dumb move.

Over the years, parties shift on issues.

[Oceander]

That could easily backfire because if they're responsible for putting them up, them they can claim a right to take them back down. 

[Cripplecreek]

Dumb move.

Over the years, parties shift on issues.

To some extent yes but ideological groups also seem to shift.

Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson were progressives who were both tough on border control. Harding and Coolidge were both conservatives who were tough on border control.

To me, Coolidge is the epitome of the conservative federalist republican. Keep the federal government small and in its lane so the people can do the people's business as they see fit. He isn't known as a great civil rights warrior but he was one of the best in the sense that he was a true believer in the rights of all under the constitution.

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To me, Coolidge is the epitome of the conservative federalist republican. Keep the federal government small and in its lane so the people can do the people's business as they see fit. He isn't known as a great civil rights warrior but he was one of the best in the sense that he was a true believer in the rights of all under the constitution.

 :thumbsup2:

[Hoodat]

That could easily backfire because if they're responsible for putting them up, them they can claim a right to take them back down.

Forget the statues.  If you want to hold the Democrats' feet to the fire, make them change the name of the Richard B. Russell Senate Office building.  Remind the world that it was the Democrats who fought against the Civil Rights Act, and in 1972 honored the man who unsuccessfully led that fight.