This.All political parties have racists and bigots, it's just that the Republican party allows theirs to set policy and the Democrats keep theirs quiet.
Formy and Tim, I got you guys covered on this... An example:So I'm sure you can come up with a number of examples to support your premise. Or do you mean that the media engages in an elaborate conspiracy to completely ignore them so we don't even know they exist?
In the Democratic Party there is Phillip Berg (BTW I love how Prez Obama's long form birth certificate is posted as his Wikipedia "photo"), leading the birtherism charge. He was ignored by the majority of Democratic voters. How do we know that he was ignored by the majority? Because Prez Obama won... twice.
On the Republican side you have Orly Taiz who's ludicrous claims seem to resonate with the majority of Republican voters. The proof? Well, a 2009 survey found that the 93% of Democrats thought Prez Obama was a citizen while only 42% of Republicans did.
But maybe the best example is David Duke, a Klu Klux Klan leader who was a Democrat and switched to the Republican party in 1988, because he was being ignored by the Democrats and couldn't get elected to anything... So after switching to the Republican Party... he won
So like Tim said Democrats ignore them, Republicans listen to (or elect) them. That is a pretty significant difference.