George Allen: Rebel flag was teen 'attitude.' Magazine reports on rebel symbols he had in school

Richmond Times-Dispatch ^ | 4/30/6 | Peter Hardin and Tyler Whitley

[Bommer]

My advise to Allen is that everytime the Confederate flag issue comes up, he should point out how it is a symbol the democrats used during their high of power in the south to control who voted how in the south.

Why that would mean a republican growing a spine! Seeing Allens lame response, thats not gonna ever happen!

[P8riot]

When anyone tells you that the confederate flag consists of the flags of St. Andrew and St. Patrick joined as one they are ignorant of the truth The southern cross is a corruption of religious symbols, inverted to do the devil's work.

Some folks go out of their way to overspiritualize things.

[bourbon]

I'm so sick of this cr-p. According to contemporary liberal "logic," attending Ole Miss game in the 1980s is identical to being a participant in the Nuremberg rally.

[onyx]

Why that would mean a republican growing a spine! Seeing Allens lame response, thats not gonna ever happen!

[Mr. Jeeves]

To me, the next most controversial part of the article revolves around a book that his younger sister has written about the family. Without going into detail, she wrote some pretty uncomplimentary things about Allen.

The things his sister said might be untrue or exaggerated...but if they are true, Allen is a sociopath who does not belong in any public office. Unfortunately, those are just the types of people who are drawn to seek political office, and DC already has an overabundance of them.

[stainlessbanner]

You live in Bizzaro NeoCon world.

[Supernatural]

This is America with freedoms of speech, etc.

The guy can wear any kind of pin he wants.

Anyone criticizing him is guilty of slander or libel.

[stainlessbanner]

I changed my Bonnie Blue for the Stars and Bars recently on my truck

New truck, new look, same ol legend.

[usmcobra]

And you my friend are afraid to lay the blame for dishonoring the memory of the confederates soldiers that died in the civil war where it belongs....

On the Democrats.

Why can't you do that one thing?

If you are going to defend that flag at the very least you should be able to point the finger at the democrats and say this is all your fault. That you can't reeks of cowardise.

[wardaddy]

You guys ever look at the 1964 electoral map? There are holes in this Jim Crow/Democrats/Flag unity folks always toss about here. And to compare Radical Republicans of Reconstruction with today's GOP is too farfetched. With all their draconian social engineering relative to that time, they are more like the Pelosis and Schumers of today.

Historical comparables like that are just too flawed. And the latter Dems of the New Deal era who did have strong attachments down South (execpt for their Marxist sub-groups) had pretty broad appeal nationwide. Which speaking of....so did the Democrats in 1860. Lincoln did not win with a majority (39%). The Democrats were not just Southern then. Anyhow....look at Goldwater versus LBJ (southerner) in 1964. So, Who's the Democrats in that one?

Anyone today who allies with South bashers over this flag is allying with the Left or RINOs. It's that simple....unlike controversial history which is a bit more complicated.

[wardaddy]

It reflects a built in bias against the South....for whatever reasons.....some personal.

Some brainwashed.

That mindset is why today we have however million illegals and their "latino brethren" marching to demand their privilege.

Were that not more or less ethnic sacred cows, they would be rounded up and tossed as they should be at some point.

This is a natural progression of our obsession with racial redress.

[absolootezer0]

ack.. you have pants older than me? that's alot scarier than a confederate flag.

[stainlessbanner]

Anyone today who allies with South bashers over this flag is allying with the Left or RINOs.

NAACP, SPLC, John Kerry, Howard Dean, Kerry's running mate (forgot his name). Strange bedfellows for a conservative.

[stainlessbanner]

That mindset is why today we have however million illegals and their "latino brethren" marching to demand their privilege.

That mindset is disregard for the Republic, same as in 1861.

[wardaddy]

Yep

[usmcobra]

Why is it that you cannot condemn the democrats for dishonoring the flag you hold so dear?

I mean it just makes me scratch my head and wonder what side you are really on.

[stainlessbanner]

You worry about me too much. Better to worry about which candidate is going to secure the borders in 2008.

[Gabz]

ack.. you have pants older than me?

If you were born after 1975, I guess I do!!!!

I really felt for the girl that asked me for ID in the convenience store last night when I bought a pack of cigarettes..........I'm more than old enough to be her mother....and those jeans are WAY older than she is!!!!!

[SDGOP]

I beleive they are called rinos and yankees.

[archy]

WOW!!! This is series, almost as series as his neighbor in WV who was once a KKK big wig.

I think maybe I knew him: