Posted on 01/17/2008 6:43:40 PM PST by TornadoAlley3
-- And Hitting McCain
A pro-Confederate Flag third-party group is running new radio ads in South Carolina praising Mike Huckabee's pro-state's-rights stance on the flag issue -- and slamming John McCain over his repeated criticism of the controversial symbol.
"Mike Huckabee's stand is a breath of fresh air," say the ads, which are paid for by the Americans for the Preservation of American Culture. "Gov. Huckabee understands that all the average guy with a Confederate Flag on his pickup truck is saying is: He's proud to be a Southerner."
McCain has been dogged by the flag issue in South Carolina since his 2000 Presidential run; he's repeatedly denounced it, calling it a "racist symbol." There are two versions of the ad, one attacking McCain, the other attacking Romney, who's also condemned the flag. Listen to them both (the second starts roughly at the one-minute mark):
Huckabee has not distanced himself from the ads. Huckabee's position on the issue is that the Federal government should stay out of states' disputes over the flag.
Ron Wilson, an official with the group airing the ads, declined to say how big the buy was. But he confirmed that it was running on all South Carolina radio stations that carry Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Bill O'Reilly.
I don't care one way or the other. I can do without either of them.
Have they listened to Rush lately? :)
I wonder if these flaggers know that the “traitor”, David Beasley, has endorsed Huckabee.
What does state’s rights have to do with the confederate flag issue? The federal government has never really been involved with the issue and still isn’t. My “shallow pandering” meter is clicking off the charts right now. Sounds like cheap populism at it’s finest, very Huckabeeish.
Hope those ads don’t run too long. Huck might change his mind in a couple of days.
He skirts the issue entirely and fools the rubes again.
More free publicity. The guy plays to win. Ya gotta like that.
Huck’s team at least knows how to run a campaign. The same can be said of McCain’s folks. It remains to be seen if Fred’s team can recover from their earlier fiasco.
Maybe Fred should say and do anything just to get elected. /s
Dixie ping
That's an odd thing to hear coming from someone with the name "Abbeville" in their handle.
From Wiki...
Abbeville has the unique distinction of being both the birthplace and the deathbed of the Confederacy. On November 22, 1860, a meeting was held at Abbeville, at a site since dubbed "Secession Hill", to launch South Carolina's secession from the Union; one month later, the state of South Carolina became the first state to secede.It was also the birthplace of noted states rights advocate John C. Calhoun.
At the end of the Civil War, with the Confederacy in shambles, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia and headed south, stopping for a night in Abbeville at the home of his friend Armistead Burt. It was on May 2, 1865, in the front parlor of what is now known as the Burt-Stark Mansion that Jefferson Davis officially acknowledged the dissolution of the Confederate government.
Ol Huck’s saying it’s a state issue. Huckabee will soon be Huckabye. He’s a panderin’ fool. Tell em what they wanna hear Huck. Loser.
Most? Don't think so, 'specially in Abbeville.
It will be a dark day for conservatives if Mike Huckabee wins SC.
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