Big Racist Tent

More proof that the Republican Party is not a big tent.

Adam LaDuca, 21, the former executive director of the Pennsylvania Federation of College Republicans, wrote on his Facebook page in late July that Obama has "a pair of lips so large he could float half of Cuba to the shores of Miami (and probably would.)"

LaDuca, who previously had called Martin Luther King Jr. a "pariah" and a "fraud," also wrote: "And man, if sayin' someone has large lips is a racial slur, then we're ALL in trouble."

The College Republicans asked LaDuca to resign after his remarks were publicized by the Pennsylvania Progressive, a blog written by a Democratic committeeman from Berks County. The group announced LaDuca's resignation on its Web site Friday

If anyone that thinks the party of Tom Tancredo, Trent Lott, Pat Buchanan, and Richard Nixon runs on racism. Republican nominee John McCain voted against Martin Luther King Day as a national holiday. McCain was in the minority of his own party in voting against the holiday.

Most glaringly, McCain as a young congressman in 1983 voted against a federal holiday for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Most Republicans in the House voted for the holiday (89 voted for the holiday, 77 opposed), though all three Arizona House Republicans were opposed. Reps. Dick Cheney, R-Wyoming, and Newt Gingrich, R-Georgia, voted for the holiday. (Cheney had voted against it in 1978.)

Even Cheney and Gingrich voted for MLK Day. McCain used the lame excuse that the holiday would be too expensive.

Hat tip to Jamelle.