[ThePatriotsFlag]

The Confederate flag incident was the establishment indicator. Here again, the flag was just an innocent symbol. But people outside the state didn't realize the flag was not flying over the capital. Earlier it was agreed the flag would not fly over the capital building, but instead still be allowed to fly over a nearby Confederate memorial and cemetery. The black pastor killed in Charleston was one of the congressmen who voted FOR this compromise.

The flag Haley took down was the ultimate affront to the men lying in those graves that gave their lives for what that flag symbolized to them.

She re-wrote history...and I see little difference between this act and the Taliban blowing up symbols in the Middle East. This was a "typical liberal" move on her part to please the blacks and radical liberals, solidly identifying her as GOPe, the liberal wing if the Republican Party.

[scooby321]

I question those numbers on Nikki

My summer neighbor is from Columbia and when he come up in June we shall see of it's real or media payback for the Flag.

[TTFlyer]

Says it all.

[poconopundit]

You know, if Haley had twisted it around, she could have turned the Confederate flag flap into a powerful patriotic statement that would have propelled her to a higher role in national politics.

As a Northern, I've always respected the valor of the Confederate soldier.  I listened to Shelby Foote's excellent audiotape on the Battle of Shilo, and the honor of the men on both sides in the Civil War makes me proud as an American.

Haley made a big mistake. Because she caved to political correctness, she's now a could-have-been political figure -- another Rhino.