his past association with a very anti-semitic neonazi name called david duke. there has not been a peep of revolt against steve skalise. he s being called to at least apologize to congress as he assumes this leadership job. but republicans have just hoping that if they keep quite about it long enough, it will just blow over. meanwhile, the former clan leader is saying he will continue to name names. we did get a call back from david duke after our queries to him yesterday when we queried him about who else in congress might be on his list.
he served there from 1989 to 1993. he got 41% of the vote in the u.s. senate race. in 1991 he ran for governor of louisiana and won. david duke doing so well didn t just get a ton of louisiana attention, it got all sorts of national republican figures involved in louisiana politics. who had nothing to do with the state. got involved by endorsing david duke s opponents so david duke wouldn t be seen as the face of the republican party in louisiana. david duke was a very big deal at this time. he was a very famous guy and a very big deal in republican politics in that state and, indeed, around the country because of it. david duke was a clan leader who had just won office and was trying to win even bigger offices and he was doing very, very well in his efforts. he was not a secret. in 1998, he ran for congress.
1993. he got 41% of the vote in the u.s. senate race. in 1991, he ran for governor of louisiana and won. david duke doing so well, didn t just get a ton of louisiana attention, it got all sorts of national republican figures involved in louisiana politics. who had nothing to do with the state. got involved by endorsing david duke s opponents so david duke wouldn t be seen as the face of the republican party in louisiana. david duke was a very big deal at this time. he was a very famous guy and a very big deal in republican politics in that state and, indeed, around the country because of it. david duke was a clan leader who had just won office and was trying to win even bigger offices and he was doing very, very well in his efforts. he was not a secret. in 1998, he ran for congress. david bitter very narrowly beat
allowed to quietly resign. so the question, not just today, but persistently for the modern republican party is, is this embarrassing? i mean, sometimes it s embarrassing to them, right, and sometimes it s not. the guy with the myspace page and happy n word day and the lynching photo, apparently that was embarrassing, more embarrassing than commander was, and he had to be fired. when the republic an senate majority leader in 2002 said the country would not have had all these problems over the years if he just elected a segregationist president when we had the chance with strom thurmond, that was embarrassing and he had to lose his job. in 2007 when ron paul was running for president, in addition to everything else, the newsletters and all the rest of it, he got donations from the clan leader who founded storm front, the nazi white nationalist web forum.
and happy n word day and the lynching photo, apparently that was embarrassing, more embarrassing than commander was, and he had to be fired. when the republic an senate majority leader in 2002 said the country would not have had all these problems over the years if he just elected a segregationist president when we had the chance with strom thurmond, that was embarrassing and he had to lose his job. in 2007 when ron paul was running for president, in addition to everything else, the newsletters and all the rest of it, he got donations from the clan leader who founded storm front, the nazi white nationalist web forum. that apparently wasn t embarrassing. ron paul did not return those donations and quite avowedly did not feel bad about keeping them. in terms of today s rand paul news, dave weigel reports today the confederate flag mask wearing southern avenger guy, that guy, that reporting on him as a rand paul staffer is not likely to affect his standing or his job in rand paul world.