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Entry: Rules for Radicals Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/rules_for_radicals#32310 Post contents: Of course Michael "Martin Luther" King was a Republican. The Republican Party was on the vanguard of Black emancipation, and then "civil rights" for almost 100 years. The Republican Party was the party of urban welfare until it was co-opted by the "Bourbon Democrat" (read: Whig) LBJ in the 1960's. To say the King family weren't Republicans is disingenuous. From my understanding, the family behind the Atlanta Daily World were Republican even until relatively recently. All one has to do is look at the appeal of such Democratic candidates as Adlai Stevenson to understand the weak appeal the Democrat Party had to American Blacks. American "conservatives" shouldn't shoe-horn themselves into the Republican Party, because there really is no history of conservatism within it. Indeed, nor is there any in what's left of the Democrat Party. Conservatives should strike where the iron is hot, and forge out a party from where they can. Sent at: 2008 12 01