Another inveterate Republican stupidity is the belief that Hispanics are “natural conservatives” who will flock to the party if only GOP troglodytes stopped opposing amnesty.Īmong the Republicans still mouthing this silliness is former Texas congressman Henry Bonilla, who lost his seat to a Hispanic Democrat in 2006 after seven terms. The late Samuel Francis called the Republican Party the Stupid Party (the Democrats were the Evil Party), in part because they refused to see that non-white immigration dooms them. “So, I thought this would be the museum to house this, even as controversial as it is.” “You don’t see the Smithsonian walking away from days of the Depression - which were certainly horrible days in our history - because it was so horrible,” he says. He says the museum should take the good with the bad. Simpson’s lawyer, Ronald Slates, is disappointed. Spokesman Valeska Hilbig says the suit “doesn’t fit” the collection. The National Museum of American History has Judy Garland’s ruby slippers from The Wizard of Oz, the leather jacket Henry Winkler (the “Fonz”) wore on the ABC sitcom Happy Days, the hat Abraham Lincoln wore before he was assassinated, and a piece of a lunch counter from a North Carolina Woolworth’s that was the site of a civil rights sit-in. The museum, often called America’s attic, contains a lot of notable clutter. It was his “lucky suit,” the one he wore on the day in 1995 when he was acquitted of murdering his wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman. Simpson recently offered one of his suits to the Smithsonian Institution. James Crowley, gave him the cuffs several months ago, when the two met at a cafe. Black Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose arrest for disorderly conduct outside his home last year drew Barack Obama’s attention and led many whites to question his “post-racial” credentials, says he has donated the handcuffs put on him during his arrest to the Smithsonian Institution’s black history museum.