Though NAACP leader Kweisi Mfume says black conservatives are puppets, Jack Kemp reminds us that the great Frederick Douglas was a Republican supporter. Why? Probably because Lincoln freed the slaves and Ulysses S. Grant signed an anti-Klan bill and arrested over 5,000 Klansmen.

An associate of Douglass wrote that African-Americans “will ever cherish a grateful remembrance of [Grant's] name, fame and great services.”

Whatever happened there? Maybe the spirit will return if Hillary Clinton goes head-to-head with Condoleeza Rice in 2008.