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How will the world's largest Confederate Flag ( in Tampa) impact the 2016 GOP primary?
one man's opinion...

Posted on 06/25/2015 11:39:06 AM PDT by ken5050

After hearing calls to remove statues of Robt E. Lee, and to stop screening "Gone With The Wind" I'm surprised that they haven't already targeted the BIGGEST Confederate Battle Flag in the world.


TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; florida; freedom; tampa
It's located a few miles from where I live, at the intersection of I-175 and I-4, just outside of Tampa.

Erected in 2008, it's 50' x 30' and the flagpole is so tall it can be seen from several counties.

Click here for the background and pictures.

This folks, is BIG, literally and figuratively, and I predict will become a current day Ft. Sumter. I fully expect activists to try and storm it, and tear it down. It's surprising that nobody's well "noticed" it as yet.. That won't last long..

And all the 2016 GOP candidates for the WH are going to have to chime in...

1 posted on 06/25/2015 11:39:06 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: ken5050

They’ll do it. So they look “inclusive”.


2 posted on 06/25/2015 11:41:27 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (American Taliban - The Democratic Party)
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To: ken5050

Buckhorn, according to the news, has already said it needs to come down.


3 posted on 06/25/2015 11:42:51 AM PDT by sport
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To: ken5050

That flag is on private property. If it’s forced down all freedom of speech will be dead. It will be just the beginning.


4 posted on 06/25/2015 11:46:06 AM PDT by ryan71 (Bibles, Beans and Bullets)
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To: ken5050

The media is responsible for opening a huge can of whoopa$$ - there’ll be a rebellion and not what they were expecting.


5 posted on 06/25/2015 12:05:45 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: ken5050

It won’t/shouldn’t.


6 posted on 06/25/2015 12:06:55 PM PDT by madison10 (If freedom of speech is taken away, then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter)
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To: ken5050

That is the Democratic Pary Flag from the mid 1800s


7 posted on 06/25/2015 12:07:23 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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To: Bulwinkle

...And a symbol of historical American defiance, like it or not.

Not only what it was, but what its become.


8 posted on 06/25/2015 12:30:38 PM PDT by onedoug
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To: ryan71

Florida’s Confederate Flag = Freedom of Speech’s last stand?


9 posted on 06/25/2015 12:32:50 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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Next thing you know, playing Skynyrd will be a punishable “micro-aggression”.


10 posted on 06/25/2015 12:36:30 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Endeavor to persevere...)
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To: ken5050

The huge confederate flag on RT75 Tampa is on private property and I believe it was already a resolved issue, where it was declared free speech. Pretty much the same as the college student who had a nazi flag hanging on his dorm window on LI NY. I am sure that the yellow Gadstone Flag will also be deemed racist by certain elements of our once great society. Just a mater of time.


11 posted on 06/25/2015 12:38:29 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: Bringbackthedraft

Fk em all.I just ordered 5 new Confederate flags for my lake dock in Pa.I also fly the Don’Tread on Me.This is from an ex teacher oef 35 years who was surrounded by idiots in The People’s Republic of New Jersey.


12 posted on 06/25/2015 12:44:28 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: ken5050

I drive past that flag every day.

A gigantic middle finger.

I hope it becomes a rally point.


13 posted on 06/25/2015 12:56:51 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Its the Sixties all over again, but with crappy music...)
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To: Bringbackthedraft; Old Sarge; All
I know it's on private property, and the legal issue has been resolved ( though after today's SCOTUS fiasco..anything's still possible)

The point I was making that EVERY GOP candidate who comes to Florida will be asked/cajoled into voicing an opinion..

14 posted on 06/25/2015 1:26:25 PM PDT by ken5050
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To: ken5050

15 posted on 06/25/2015 1:45:45 PM PDT by mcmuffin (Freedom's On The March - Wave Goodbye!)
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To: Renegade

Really drive ‘em nutty and add a Christian flag


16 posted on 06/25/2015 4:04:16 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: ken5050

There is a huge Confederate flag near the site of the 2016 Republican convention? How very fortunate for the Democrat party.


17 posted on 06/25/2015 4:11:30 PM PDT by GSWarrior (Click HERE to activate this tag line.)
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To: ken5050

Why not the Dem candidates having to chime in? Huh?

It’s THEIR FLAG. They are the party of racism, slavery, KKK, segregation, Jim Crow, etc.


18 posted on 06/25/2015 4:13:05 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: ken5050
I think that there is a Confederate Cometary in Brandon just to the north of 60.
19 posted on 06/26/2015 2:23:28 PM PDT by sport
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To: ken5050
Jeb's already got plans for that flag pole ...


20 posted on 06/26/2015 2:35:52 PM PDT by x
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