A political ad so heinous…

…that even Republicans are disavowing it.

A national black Republican group is running a radio advertisement accusing Democrats of starting the Ku Klux Klan and saying they have "bamboozled" black voters.

Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, the black Republican nominee for Maryland’s open U.S. Senate seat, disavowed the ad Thursday and called for the Washington-based National Black Republican Association to stop running it. In a statement, he said it was "insulting to Marylanders and should come down immediately."

…The spot, a conversation between two women, includes one saying, "Democrats passed those black codes and Jim Crow laws. Democrats started the Ku Klux Klan." "The Klan?" the other woman replies. "White hoods and sheets?"

The first woman also says, "Democrats fought all civil rights legislation from the 1860s to the 1960s. Democrats released those vicious dogs and fire hoses on blacks."

The ad asserts that "Democrats want to keep us poor while voting only Democrat" and, "Democrats want us to accept same-sex marriages, teen abortions without a parent’s consent and suing the Boy Scouts for saying 'God' in their pledge."

About the GOP, the ad says "Republicans freed us from slavery and put our right to vote in the constitution."

Wow. Just wow.

I know that the Democrats as an entire party really aren’t doing enough to address minority issues, individual party members (and caucuses) notwithstanding, and I’m well aware that the Dixiecrats were turncoat Dems. In other words, you won’t find me arguing that the Dems are brilliant at serving their black constituency. But this is just patent insanity. Not to mention typically mendacious Republican wedge issue bullshit, in which boys kissing and women’s bodily autonomy eclipse any and all other issues, even the right to vote.

Meanwhile, it’s certainly interesting that an ad by the UCC implying acceptance of gay and lesbian couples was rejected for being “too conversial,” but an ad claiming that the Democrats want to keep blacks poor is just fucking fine.