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[Brett66]

Dean's already lost the south,and he hasn't even made it past the primaries. Even Dukakis in his little tank was a better opponent.

[Mears]

I've seen Confedarate flags on trucks in Walpole Mass,the Home of the Rebels !!!!!

Dean wouldn't know a working class stiff if he fell over one and believe me there are plenty good old boys in the Northeast,he doesn't have to go south to find them.

They just aren't members of his country club so he didn't even know they were there.

[vastrightwc]

It is obvious that Howard Dean is Pro NRA. If guns were illegal he would have no way of shooting himself in the foot.

[smith288]

[TX Bluebonnet]

Living in rural South Carolina, I'm surrounded by pickup trucks and, I reckon, good ol' boys. Yeah, sure nuf, we get together every sundown at the corner Esso to shuck corn, swat flies, chaw tobacco and flirt with our cousins while swapping tall tales about Gen. Sherman's mysterious overnight with Miss Liza's great-grandmama and how her house miraculously survived the Yankee fires. Wee-dawgies.

The whole episode smacks of classism if not racism: Northern Nobility embraces Southern Idiocracy. How long before one of them says: "Why some of my best friends are Southerners"?

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Laughed out loud at these passages. Thanks for posting.

[MoJo2001]

This disease isn't just something that is prone to Liberals. I've known plenty of Conservatives who are equally offended by the Confederate Flag. I have no problem with people being offended by something, but I do if the only reason is because it conforms to political correctness.


If you want to get rid of the Confederate flag, then you better line up African Americans and hold their feet to the fire over the Pan African flags that fly on Southern black colleges and many in the North.

And if you don't think it's worth fighting to allow people to keep the Confederate flag, keep in mind they'll come after Old Glory soon enough. Either stand up for it or get outta of the way!

Besides, I grew up in Ohio where there are far more Confederate flags waving than I've seen here in the South.

[Joe 6-pack]

I deeply regret that Lewis Grizzard is not around to comment on this all.

[bulldogs]

The dems are going to get there asses kicked in 04. No one, or very few, think they can protect our country. In this environment, security is number 1. I think the senate will be close to 60 republicians. The only ones that think anything will be close is the liberial media. It will be shock and awe for the dems.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

You've got to love this hyperinflated, egocentric doofus! He is the poster boy for Eastern Ivy elitism! If he wasn't so pathetically funny, I'd like to go "up side his head" a few times...not really to to hurt him or anything rural like that...just to see what kind of bongo tonality I could get out of freestylin' on his bean. It's going to be quite hysterical to observe his antics during this election cycle. We can only hope his fellow travelers will join in. Rev. Al showed promise by jumping up in his grill at the last debate. City slicker frat boys are too much fun, don't you think?

[sarge4]

GO DEAN! GO DEAN!! GO DEAN!! GO TO CHINA DEAN!!

[Between the Lines]

Living in rural South Carolina, I'm surrounded by pickup trucks and, I reckon, good ol' boys.....But I'll be gall-durned if I can remember the last time I saw a Confederate flag - on a truck or off it, as we say in the sticks.

I live in South Carolina and every since the flag flap in Columbia there are thousands of bumper stickers and window decals that have popped up with the Confederate flag on them and the words 'Heritage not Hate'. Even my wife has one on her pickup.

To stereotype southerners as Bubbas driving pickup trucks with Confederate flags is a lie, but so is denying that there is some basis for this stereotype.

[Paul C. Jesup]

But the Confederate flag is tricky among Southerners - a volatile issue, the nuances of which are often lost on Northerners and other visitors to the kudzu states. Not everyone with the battle flag in his home or on his truck is a dangerous racist, though some are. Plenty of sticker-free Trans-Am drivers in New York are, too, not that I have anything against Trans-Ams.

Now here is someone who understands the issue.

[dirtboy]