Webb defends use of Confederate flag

The Hill ^ | 06/24/2015 | Mark Hensch

[RC one]

This whole thing boils down to vegan red meat substitute for the Democrat base. Democrats are sugar and spice and everything nice and everyone else is a racist so be sure to vote for Hillary. It's a bunch of nonsense.

And btw, Doberman Pinschers are awesome animals. They possess a very neutral temperament and are one of the most intelligent dog breeds you'll ever find. But I digress.

[Kazan]

How pathetic is it when the only politician that will stand up the left’s attempt at cultural genocide is a Democrat.

[TexasFreeper2009]

Republicans are making a HUGE mistake here!

They were already suspect in the South to begin with.

The RINO’s are risking the entire Southern conservative coalition over this.

[SeekAndFind]

Ironic that a DEMOCRAT would be doing this instead of a Republican !!

If we are going to ban the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then to be consistent, we have to ban the Stars and Stripes too.

It flew over slave transporting ships for much, much longer than any flag of the Confederacy. If the logic is that the flag flew over slave-owning lands, then the Stars and Stripes has to go, as well.

Heck, even the Ku Klux Klan flew the Stars and Stripes in their rallies...



If we go down that road, we will continue to be lopsided in our views, unaware of our own history.


So What's next? Are they going to take down the Flag of the United States too?

By capitulating because an evil nutjob like Dylann Roof slaughtered 9 innocent black Christians, aren’t folks like these providing incentive for the next nutjob to do something similar just to see how much hysteria they can create?

If we are going to ban the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then to be consistent, we have to ban the Stars and Stripes too.

It flew over slave transporting ships for much, much longer than any flag of the Confederacy. If the logic is that the flag flew over slave-owning lands, then the Stars and Stripes has to go, as well.

Heck, even the Ku Klux Klan flew the Stars and Stripes in their rallies...



If we go down that road, we will continue to be lopsided in our views, unaware of our own history.


So What's next? Are they going to take down the Flag of the United States too?

[VerySadAmerican]

Has Sarah Palin weighed in yet?

[SoFloFreeper]

Holy crap.

One Democrat that has balls.

[manc]

About time someone had balls to stand up and tell the truth, and no surprise that it is not a republican.

[manc]

June 27th the left are having a burn the battle flag day.
June 28th there is a fly your battle flag day.

[manc]

Because republicans have no balls to stand against the left and the media which are one of the same.

[gingerbread]

Let’s see, while ISIS is destroying all historical signs in the middle east, we are all joining together to destroy our historical signs, in this country. Because the PC crowd has deemed it necessary to destroy our historical signs in this country. Does any one out there see what these people are doing to our history? When are we going to make a stand, and tell them ENOUGH IS ENOUGH?

[odawg]

Some blacks in Louisiana have said it does not offend them.
There was, some years ago, a black guy that walked across the South with a Confederate flag. He said his ancestors fought for the South in the Civil War.

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

Sorry whether it`s Manchin or Webb they are all losers, He is not Christian because he is a member of the party with the anti Christian platform, he is NOT pro Life, pro family or Christian

Sorry

[NKP_Vet]

The only southern states that a democrat can possibly carry is Virginia and North Carolina. That’s because of the influx of Yankees in the last 20 years or so. Democrats have no chance of carrying any other southern state. I do not consider Florida southern. But I have said before that republicans need every vote they can muster to defeat the battleaxe Hillary Clinton and they absolutely can not afford to lose any swing state and think they can win. Virginia and NC are a must if a republican is going to win. Virginia and NC might were winnable until the sorry ass governors threw the battle flag under the bus and are now calling for the destruction of anything to do with Confederate heritage. There are proud Republican voters that love their ancestors and they will not show up to vote next year. Once more the stupid party has cut their own throats. Republicans might not win another president election, ever. Caving into the demands of liberals is the last straw. Disband the GOP.

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

Here he is embracing Obama and trashing Sarah Palin in 2008, the man is pure filth

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1008/Webb_Knocks_Palin.html

[Chauncey Uppercrust]

My apologies, I see that I read to fast I totally missed your point, here I thought you were singing the praises of Webb and you were not, sorry I misunderstood

What a tangled web I weave

[grania]

I’m not say I’d want Webb as President. I’m referring to him as someone to possibly stop hillary