Posted on 07/07/2012 4:51:17 AM PDT by raulgomez05
Aging rocker and reality TV personality Ted Nugent is emerging, even ahead of Donald Trump, as Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s most embarrassing public supporter.
Nugent is at it again, reacting to the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act by writing in the Rev. Sun Myung Moon’s Washington Times that America would have been better off had the South won the Civil War.
A full Nugent rant, which might be subtitled “Robe Rage”:
“The bottom line is that Chief Justice Roberts’ traitor vote will ensure more monumental spending and wasted taxes and put almost 15 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product under one of the world’s most bureaucratic, ineffective, incompetent and grossly expensive systems ever devised by man: our out-of-control federal government.
(Excerpt) Read more at blog.seattlepi.com ...
“Does Romney agree?”
Let him take a close look at his internal polls,he’ll get back with an answer later.
What the hell does Nugent’s killing an illegal bear in Alaska have to do with the position he took when he stated, “it may have been better had the South won the civil war”. Then again, what does that statement have to do with anything?
I tend to agree with Nugent. And, at this point, a remake would be in order.The entire center section of this country ought to secede.
I concede the south had many great traditions ruined by the civil war but, the institution of slavery was an indefensible cruelty. The history of southern racism following the civil war is also a great shame that we'd all like to forget about.
Who looks back with more shame and regret: The Nazi's or the southern racists? I pretty much think it's a tie. Still, those civil rights issues have been resolved long ago and those days, though regretful, are done.
In conclusion, let's not get crazy about who was in the moral ‘right’ over the civil war. Facts is facts.
The question is do you agree with the misquote "Nugent: ‘Best’ if South had won Civil War" that you posted?
The actual Nugent quote, found later in the article was:
“Because our legislative, judicial and executive branches of government hold the 10th Amendment in contempt, I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.”A conservative or any honest person can not fail to see the difference. Blind acceptance of liberal distortions and Sol Alinsky propaganda tactics have no place on FR.
America was prosperous and vital before the federal government existed, and it will be again after it is gone.
I’m a transplanted Yankee and the past 26 years in the South have me thinking it WOULD (not may) be better today if they had won. Who cares about the bear?
Heh. No kidding. If it reaches that point, I hope for relatively peaceful dissolution such as occurred with the Soviet Union.
>>Which civil war? The last one? Or the next one?
The last one was a war of independence. The whole “brother against brother” meme was just public school indoctrination where a few isolated cases were elevated to the norm to rewrite history. The next one will be a true civil war where people fight their neighbors in every state in urban combat.
Problem is, the left redefined the CW1 as about slavery in Joe Public’s mind, when that was the symptom, not the disease. So this won’t be received well. Wish he had phrased it differently, to make his real point ‘unheadlineable’.
Hank already wrote that song, Ted...so don’t get too carried away with the idea.
Specifically, the federal government wanted to take something of great worth from people without compensation, even freaking Kelo vs New London didn't go that far.
Many studies have concluded that slavery would have petered out on it's own even without the civil war.
Our system of government as originally intended died when the South lost, and we are reaping what was sown with the loss to this day.
Considering Nuge is originally from Michigan, an interesting statement.
A South win would have been better for our Constitution...limited form of government
Also, the so-called Anti-Slavery people were against the spread of slavery because they did not want blacks in the new territories and states....they used “anti-slavery” to cover their own racism. They were no saints. They treated blacks just as bad as Southern plantation owners.
So, what you are saying is that if the south won, slavery would have been abolished?
Sell that somewhere else.
The "state rights" the south was fighting for was the right to own slaves, and the "property" was slaves. I doubt you would have looked at it this way if you were one of those slaves.
Specifically, the federal government wanted to take something of great worth from people without compensation, even freaking Kelo vs New London didn't go that far.
Something? Since when are human beings "things"?
Many studies have concluded that slavery would have petered out on it's own even without the civil war.
Well, the south sure fought a hard fight for something that was going away anyway.
I’m thinking that, given a chance to vote in a fair election, America might be only 20 states - ME, VT, NH, MA, CT, RI, NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, IL, CA, OR, WA, HI, NM, WI, MI, and IA. Losers move out to preferred states.
Mutual defense pact and mutual trade (no teriffs) would keep both sides safe. Otherwise, go your own way.
Oh, and slavery is NOT an isue, so let’s not fight the Civil War again on this thread.
IF SECESSION NOT BE, THEN REVOLUTION MUST.
Importation of slaves ended before the civil war. The slave population was big enough to keep itself going.
The agricultural south could not keep up with the industrial north. That would not have changed.
Slavery as an institution would have been the economical thing for he south to do.
It would have lead to another war when half of the slaves started running north.
And when I think about the stereotypical southern politician, I think y’all would be in the same boat a us.
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