re: #26 HappyWarrior

To be fair to him, I don’t think he said that about Lincoln but he did for sure tell them they would be “shocked” to know that Booker T. Washington and many early Civil Rights leaders were Republicans.

Well, actually…

GOP Rebranding Watch: Rand Paul Ducks Record on Civil Rights in Awkward Howard Speech

Paul repeatedly reminded the audience that Democrats passed Jim Crow laws in the south and that Abraham Lincoln was a Republican, as were the first black legislators and the founders of the NAACP.

“Would everyone know here they were all Republicans?” he said at one point, referring to the NAACP’s founders.

“Yes!” came the booming response from nearly the entire audience, who appeared offended Paul would even raise the question.