Posted on 06/22/2015 11:48:57 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson
Edited on 06/22/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Haley is the RINO who endorsed Mitt over Newt in SC. Newt won SC anyway. :-)
LOL! That was excellent. I enjoyed it so much I read it twice...very witty, actually.
You know, I was stunned to find out you're a man. The style and the content of your posts always made me think you were an elderly woman...especially combined with your fandom for "Dancing With The Stars", and your gushing over celebrities, even down to Justin Bieber and the Kardashians.
Posts like this bring back that sense of amazement for me. Meow. ;)
Okay ... if flying the Confederate Flag is a 1st Amendment issue ... burning the US Flag is a 1st Amendment issue ... right? You would be just fine watching someone burn the US Flag ... right?
To me ... both are an issue of just because you can .... doesn’t mean you should.
It’s not a confederate flag.
LOL, didn't it, though
Secessionism is no longer a valid point of view. The issue was settled with blood. You should understand why the vast majority of Americans view the flag of rebellion and secession with repugnance.
As for what Lee or Grant thought of slavery, who cares. The Union was preserved and slavery was abolished.
I'm from Arizona and several other states in the west, live in Florida but have lived in South Carolina, as well. From my personal experience, most people who display the Confederate flag or stickers or decals of it, are just folks who identify with their southern heritage and roots and are neither bigots or racists.
I don't care one way of the other. The flag will probably come down from atop the state house eventually because of political correctness. But it won't stop folks from displaying it all over the south.
When the Washington Compost praises a politician in the South, you are finished. Remember that Governor.
We just don’t have the media showing these photos, instead CBS this morning tied the murders to Ted Cruz by saying he received a donantion from someone referenced by the mad kid.
Smart, successful politicians many times take one for the Gipper to get two back later. There's much to be said for the old saw, "win some, lose some, but live to fight another day".
Too many conservatives, who like nothing more than to immediately leap to eat their own without pausing to intellectually connect this dot and that, always love to decry their own conservative representatives as being lousy strategists and lousier tacticians....but when one of them, like Miss Nikki, actually pulls the rug right out from under a juicily-brewing liberal cause celebre at little to no cost to herself and her party, and the libs are deflected and are left fighting air, the tory knives and forks to jab her come out faster than a Twinkie would remain intact at a Weight Watchers meeting.
With this move, the governor cut further losses from a situation that could have no victors in the end, anyhow.
I swear that some posters here would have the GOP lose the governorship of this crucial state than to use strategic political forward thinking to undercut and stymie the enemies of the Republic.
Good for Governor Haley!
Leni
But only ONE flag, The Old Glory meaning stars and stripes for ever, should fly on government buildings.
And how long do you think it be will before someone or some group asks for its’ removal?
Bingo!
Whether it stands for slavery and secession to you or for rainbows and unicorns, your perception of the flag and what it stands for is of great importance to your mind and of little importance to others. To conservatives (especially hard-line Constitutional conservatives who still believe the Bill of Rights meant what it said) in the south, the confederate flag stands for the 10th Amendment, and for the rights and powers of the States to decide matters not delegated by the Constitution to the federal Congress. While the institution of slavery and the rights of the states to secede from the union were major issues leading to the War of Northern Aggression, they were not the only issues. To southerners, the confederate flag stands for pride in our southern heritage, for rugged individualism and a rural/agrarian culture rather than an industrial/mechanical culture, for self-determination rather than subservience to the dictates of Washington and a northeastern consortium of oligarchs. If you have bought into the idea that because some loud racists have hijacked our flag for their agenda that the flag stands for that agenda, then nothing any southerner can say will change your mind; but we will not let you or anyone else dictate to us what the flag stands for.
Once again, I will share this pic because it makes a good point:
Freepers are actually agreeing with this political farce. Figures the southern haters had to chine in.
What’s your take on this LG
You stand for historical stupidity and tyranny I disapprove of both.
Yeah, I’m 73, should have added that to the list...the list grows daily.
The state flags of a few southern states have a form of the confederate battle flag incorporated into their designs. Are you saying that you believe these states should change their state flags to purge any form of the confederacy from their flag designs?
The “Declaration of the Immediate Causes Which Induce and Justify the Secession of South Carolina from the Federal Union” makes it clear that the reason South Carolina seceded was slavery
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp
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