The Confederate Flag Trap

Bob Parks: Outside The Wire ^ | 1/19/08 | Bob Parks

[bocopar]

Have you noticed there are questions liberals are seldom asked that conservatives always are, and vice versa?

Democrats are very seldom grilled about their abortion views, while Republicans are required to defend them. And it would appear every four years, Republican presidential candidates are called upon to answer for that South Carolina "solidarity" flag which includes the brand of the confederacy.

[southernerwithanattitude]

Liberals love to preach about tolerance except when it comes to southern white males.

Keep it up, it makes us stronger every election cycle.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I was watching CNN or FNC the other day and they were talking about the confederate flag issue and there was a group of people waving the confederate flag. A grand total of 4 people were out there waving the confederate flag in their demonstration. It’s laughable that the MSM feels the need to make an issue that really so few people really care about. I gather they are playing the issue up so that if their favorite candicate loses they can blame it on those confederate flag wavers.

[L98Fiero]

It’s not so much the flag itself that many of us Southerners wish to defend. It’s the fact that others wish to force us into submission over it. We can go on and on about what the CBF means to this group or that group, this person or that person and it really makes no difference. Ultimately this is about standing up to bullies.

If someone tries to intimidate me into giving them a dollar, I simply won’t. It’s only a dollar but I’d fight before giving it up to a bully.

[RedCobra]

LIBERAL BASTARDS PREACH TOUCHY-FEELY TOLERANCE FOR ISLAM YET COME DOWN REAL HARD ON THE CONFEDERATE FLAG.

[BatGuano]

I don’t have a problem with the Confederate Flag but what’s up with the Crescent? Now that symbol is a problem for me!

[TBP]

I strongly dislike The Huckster, but he is right on this one: It’s South Carolina’s decision.

Which ties into the history of the flag itself. One cayse of the War Between the States, at least, was the new Union government’s plan to centralize numerous government functions (and somehow get the Southerners to pay the bulk of the bill via taxes and tariffs, which are just anotehr form of taxes) in contravention of the Founders’ vision.

So it’s a states’ rights symbol. Which circles back around to “It’s South Carolina’s decision.”

[TBP]

Liberals love to preach about tolerance

[TBP]

It was Democrats who put the flag up at the Statehouse.

[TBP]

Liberals love to preach about tolerance

But they never display any, nor do they intend to. I guess you can't display it if you don't have it.

[ozzymandus]

Dick Morris was on TV comparing the Confederate battle flag to the Nazi swastika. What an ass.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don’t know why there is a crescent moon on the SC state flag. In the colonial era, Plymouth Colony was started by the Separatists, Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Puritans, Maryland by a Catholic (Lord Baltimore) and Pennsylvania by a Quaker (Penn)...so I guess South Carolina must have been founded by a bunch of Muslims. Maybe “Moros” fleeing the Spanish Inquisition.

[x]

I don’t know why there is a crescent moon on the SC state flag.

One theory is that it's not a moon at all, but refers to a piece of an 18th century uniform.

Another relates to the crescent moon as a heraldic symbol on the coats of arms of the founders, early settlers, or one of the royal governors of the province.

The moon goes well with the tree, but actually the crescent was in state or provincial flags before the palmetto.

[BatGuano]

Thanks for the reply. As many have said today, it is up to the people of South Carolina. I do believe in States Rights so what Jesse of Al have to say is just their normal posturing for the masses. Not sure about the Moros connection, I’ll have to check the SC website.

[Verginius Rufus]

I was just kidding about the Moros being involved in the founding of SC, although there is a theory that some people in the Southeast (Melungeons) are descended from people left behind by early Spanish colonizers (people either from Spain or from elsewhere in the Mediterranean). I believe there were Spanish in the Chesapeake area before the English arrival.

[Southern Partisan]

On the back of my truck...

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

How about the states whose flag is base on the British Flag, we fought two wars and several isolated actions against those folks, but question of using their flag. Only fought the Confederate States once and our flags are taboo. Couldn't’t be that 12% block vote, could it?