Well, that escalated quickly. In fairness to my conservative friends, there's noooooo way they could have ever known that their newest hero, Nevada rancher Cliven Bundy, would let loose a racist rant. It was unimaginable, crazy. Who'd have thought? Sure, he refused to recognize the legitimacy of the federal government, also known as the United States of America. But so did the secessionists of Lincoln's time, and they weren't racists. No, not at all. They just believed that some people should own other people and that the determining factor in deciding whether you were master or slave was the color of your skin.
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Paul Begala wonders why Republicans who championed Cliven Bundy were surprised
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A few Republicans initially rallied around Bundy in dispute over land
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Bundy wondered this week of blacks, "Are they better off as slaves, picking cotton?"
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Bundy told CNN, "I don't think I'm wrong. ... I think I'm right"
Not the subsidies that provide grassland to @placeholder ranchers at below-market values.