From the Party of Lincoln to the Party of Calhoun, An Endless Series

Shorter John Boehner: “I’m told that the No. 3 leader in the House Republican conference spoke to a white supremacist group. Your point being? And even if we assume arguendo that this was wrong, who could have known that David Duke’s “European-American Unity and Rights Organization” was a white supremacist group? It was a youthful indiscretion. And if only Strom Thurmond had been elected president, we wouldn’t have had all of these problems.”

…Shorter John Scalise: “David Duke is unelectable, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong.”