Recently I posted a blog entry on the ARRA News Service – Arkansas Republican Assemblies blog. The original post is located on this blog in its entirety. On that blog, however it was redacted. Here is an excerpt of their objection to my post, followed by my reply.

racist comment removed by ARRA News Editors – violates comment guidelines – either this post was not from the person/ blog identified or the blogger whom claims to be a Christian Conservative and Reagan Republican is expressing positions diametrically opposite of what a Christian and Reagan Republican would believe. There is no place for racist comments in the Party of Lincoln and Reagan.

You are joking, right? This is the Republican Party of Arkansas, correct? I’m pretty sure some of your ancestors owned some of Alan Keyes ancestors. And as for that whole “party of Lincoln and Reagan line,” come on, whom do you think you are fooling?

Most of us joined the Republican Party just because of the rampant racism, bigotry, misogyny, homophobia, and misopedia. I’m not knocking it in any way. I celebrate it, as does our party.

Ann Coulter wants to repeal the twentieth amendment. Rush Limbaugh calls Senator Barack Obama a “halfrican American.” Michelle Malkin defends the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Michael Savage refers to Massachusetts and New Jersey as part of the “garter belt.” And the party’s current coordinated attack of Graeme Frost makes the “swiftboating” of Senator John Kerry look like a incompetent gathering of a ladies’ auxiliary bake sale.

So let’s not pretend that our party is somehow above all this. We must embrace it. We are Republicans because, deep down inside, and sometimes not all that deep, we don’t particularly care for black people, gay people, children, the handicapped, and we believe that women should be bare foot and pregnant, and we really, truly would like to get rid of a couple annoying amendments. Sure, we use code words like “states’ rights,” but we all know what that means.

At the core of our party when we hear “40 acres and a mule” we think “where’s our compensation for all that property that was taken from us back in 1865? Some of that stock could fetch a great price in today’s market. As a lonely, sexually active female, I certainly wouldn’t balk at having a buck or two available at my beck and call.

We hold the second amendment above all others, because we really are afraid of black people and want a way to defend ourselves from them if we ever are successful in getting that pesky thirteenth amendment repealed.

So get off your high horse and join the rest of us in the party. Be proud of our party and what it stands for!

Look, if you will not get behind the true social conservatives (another code word), then people like me will leave the party and vote for a third party candidate in 2008. We may not win, but we can send a message to the Republican Party, a message that says that only “conservatives” are welcome.