Posted on 06/22/2015 11:37:56 AM PDT by Mozilla
As recently as eight months ago, at a gubernatorial debate, Haley answered her Democratic opponent’s call to take down the flag by countering that none of the CEOs who’ve brought their businesses to the state seemed to have any issue with it. That may be about to be change, though — protests to burn the flag on Saturday are already picking up steam on Facebook — so evidently Haley’s position will change with it. Last year 61 percent of South Carolinians supported keeping the flag in place on the state house grounds, but Haley’s term-limited as governor and is probably thinking more of her national potential at this point. She’s on the 2016 VP short list already; today’s announcement will remove a potential obstacle. It’s also a huge favor not just to Republicans in the state legislature, who’ll be grateful to have her acting as lightning rod on this, but to the GOP’s presidential field, which wants to make the Confederate flag issue go away ASAP. There’s a lot more upside than downside for her in taking this position.
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Which Confederates were convicted of Treason?
Sadly, only one that I am aware of.
In 1978, Thurmond joined Howard Baker in supporting the failed constitutional amendment to make D.C. the 51st state. I don’t have the other leftward voters but they trickled in thereafter. He did though stand firm on right to life and military preparedness.
Jefferson Davis was not tried for treason out of fear that he would have been acquitted.
The same is said of Bobby Jindal. I was in Columbia for a few hours in July 2012, and Haley was out of town then too.
Haley has no ancestral attachment to SC. That’s one reason she was so quick to throw the Confederate flag under the bus. But the main reason is her own self-interests.
Nazi Germany also lost the war. The only people I see trotting out a swastika flag are morons.
Disrespect of Southern/American heritage is expected from Nimrata Nikki Randhawa Haley, a.k.a. Nikki Haley, a child of Indian Sikh parents.
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