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MC CAIN IS NO WALLACE
To borrow a bit from the debate, in which Lloyd Bentsen rebuked Dan Quail for comparing himself to John Kennedy, it could be said to
John McCain, "I knew George Wallace. George Wallace was a friend of mine. And, Senator, you're no George Wallace." McCain's remark
that Wallace was the "worst chapter" in American history contrasts Wallace and McCain. Wallace was the pugilistic Alabama Governor,
who declared, at his Inauguration, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
Wallace went on to his legendary "stand in the school-house door" to protest integration and, eventually, was winning
Democratic-primaries and poised to take the White House. He was gunned down by a man who, still, guffaws against segregation. Why is
it the "worst-chapter" when there was one language, English, one law, the Constitution, and one vision, freedom? Home-owning, not
home-invasion, car-manufacturing, not car-jacking.
So important was the South, that subsequent presidential-aspirants adhered to the "Southern strategy." The Republican Party had been
brought back to life, when it opposed the civil-rights bill and carried the South, plus Arizona. Richard Nixon ascended to office,
for adopting the Wallace-platform, as did Ronald Reagan, for co-opting the Wallace "constitutional-government" stance. Slurring
Wallace has slapped not only Southerners, segregationists and anti-Communists, but "Reagan-Democrats," "conservative-Republicans"
and "silent-majority" Americans.
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