Liberals on Twitter: One idiot with Confederate flag at tea party rally = GOP is racist

Daily Caller ^ | 10/13/2013 | Koala McDidgeridoo

[celmak]

At a tea party rally in Washington Sunday billed as the “Million Vet March,” one idiot decided to bring Confederate flag, which was enough for liberals to paint the entire Republican Party as racist.

[Travis T. OJustice]

He’s a good man, and lucky to find a good old broad (said with UTMOST respect!) like you.

God Bless you both!

[NFHale]

I have NO problem with the Confederate flag. To me, it’s a part of American history. Like the Gadsden flag.

I think it’s one of the classiest flags I’ve seen, as flags go.

See my post at #160.

[Thunder90]

Yet, in every antiwar protest during the Bush Administration, there were open Communists, Islamoradicals, and anarchists bent on overthrowing the government with violence, and the Democrats said nothing; often they embraced them. Do they need evidence?

Even Occupy was backed by the Democrats and the Obama Administration.

[Eleutheria5]

But they showed it from lots of different camera angles, so that it would look like the stars n bars were everywhere. Doesn’t that prove anything?/sarc

[The Cajun]

If you want to side with loser Democrat Confederates...ok.

Ya going to have to try better than that, ROTFLMAO!

Here's a little rebel YEEEEEEEEEEEE-HAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, for ya.

[NFHale]

“...not that I find the Confederate flag offensive...but the politically correct seem to...”

Refer to my post at #160.

I don’t find it offensive either. The libtards are programmed to hate-on-sight when they see it.

[NFHale]

“....They’ve done it before. ...”

Masters of the Agent Provocateur tactics.

Once again, though... It’s part of OUR history. - a history that the left is trying to denigrate, demonize, re-write, and otherwise erase.

Whether we let them do it or not is the question.

[sarasota]

See #24 for another angle.

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon.

I could state as fact, that the Ku Klux Klan was a democrat sponsored organization. Senator Byrd, if he were alive today would attest to that.

I could also state as fact some 60,000 Negro slaves were conscripted into the Confederate Army, and granted their "freedom." I put freedom in quotes because they were conscripted, and many of them died fighting.

Those who survived received their freedom.

Emotions still run hot after 150 years. I understand why.

5.56mm

[re_nortex]

The Confederates lost the war.

Yes they did but the victory by the north seems to be Pyrrhic nowadays. The South is now the land of liberty and freedom whereas the north, particularly the northeast is where slavery under the lash of union thugs is the norm.

The states of the Confederacy, except for Florida, also repudiated tyranny as shown by the 2012 election map.

And even a half-century ago, it was the "Solid South" leading the vanguard for the Conservative resurgence, standing bravely for Barry Goldwater against leftism:

So, from my perspective, the Confederate flag is a symbol of regional pride. More than that, it represents resistance to tyranny. It's noteworthy that commies also hate the flag of Virginia.

[mrsmel]

God Bless you too, and proud to be called an old broad by a fellow “unreconstructed”!

[PowderMonkey]

All true enough. Now, I submit for your consideration, this from the Virginia Historical Society:

Robert E. Lee arrived in Lexington in mid-September 1865 and went to work immediately as President of Washington College. Over the next five years, Washington College grew physically and financially: the A faculty increased in size from four to twenty, enrollment grew from 50 to nearly 400 students, and financial contributions poured in from both southern and northern sources. Lee's personal involvement with many of his students reflected his desire to create a new generation of Americans. In response to the bitterness of a Confederate widow who lamented the fact her twin sons had chosen to seek higher education at a Northern college, and thus, become "Yankees," Lee told her "Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and let your sons be Americans."

In December 2005 the Virginia Historical Society acquired from Lee family descendants the portable lap desk that belonged to Lee while he lived in the president's house at Washington College. The desk is currently on display in the long-term exhibition The Story of Virginia. Among the interesting items in the desk is a "cash" book that includes a record, in Lee's hand, of his salary as president of the college. Although a sword might symbolize Robert E. Lee's distinguished military service, the desk represents the final chapter of his life—a period in which he dedicated himself to educating young men and reuniting the country that he had so recently fought against.

[sarasota]

Your history lessons have given me pause. Thank you~

[celmak]

Now that flag I would fly, if I were a Virginian! Though Virginia had been part of the Confederacy, it did not represent the Confederate nation as a whole. Virginia has plenty of good Bible believing Conservatives too. Just got to get more Blue out of offices though.

[re_nortex]

Although a sword might symbolize Robert E. Lee's distinguished military service, the desk represents the final chapter of his life—a period in which he dedicated himself to educating young men and reuniting the country that he had so recently fought against.

Thanks for that very interesting post concerning Lee and his post-military contributions at Lexington. I can only wonder how Texas A&M would have fared under the stewardship of Jefferson Davis , who declined the offer of its presidency.

He was a bit of rowdy fellow while at West Point (not dissimilar to today's Johnny Football of aTm) but later distinguished himself during the Mexican–American War. His legacy also included strengthening America's military when he served with honor as Secretary of War during the Pierce administration. As Mississippi Senator, Davis championed the territorial expansion of the United States via the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and the Gasden Purchase.

[Hugin]

Much of what you write is factual, but not the truth. Yes the stated initial objective of the war was to squash secession and restore the union. And yes the Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in rebel territory. And yes, the average southern soldier was fighting for a general sense of patriotism and state’s rights. However any fair reading of history shows the root of those issues, and the only reason they ever came into play was the fact that slavery had divided the country into two irreconcilable camps. You on need to look at the pre-secession mini civil war in Kansas that was clearly caused by slavery and nothing else.

As for your statement “In the North , a slavery labor force was not common, although it existed”, it existed in the border states of MD, KY, and MO that didn’t succeed, but which really weren’t northern states. Slavery was illegal in most northern states since before they became states. It was the south and their supporters on SCOTUS that interfered with northern states in the Dread Scott case by forcing them to recognize the “rights” of slaveholders within their states. Somehow that violation of states rights didn’t bother the southern aristocracy.

Finally, both the timing and limitations of the Emancipation Proclamation were for political reasons, not because Lincoln didn’t want to free all the slaves. Lincoln was being pragmatic, and felt if he did so without a Union victory it would be seen as a desperation move. He also didn’t want to stir up trouble in the border states. But it was clear to everyone that slavery would never survive there once it was eliminated in the Confederate states.

There is a lot of revisionism on both sides, but to pretend that slavery was not the primary and overriding cause of the war is just wrong. Slavery wasn’t why the average southern soldier fought though. They fought for what the soldiers always fight for, their country (state), pride, and ultimately their brothers in arms. But it was the reason behind all the other reasons.

All that said, the so called “Confederate flag”, has for many southerners a symbol of regional pride, not slavery and racism. I don’t have any problem with people who display it for that reason, although I can understand why at least some people are also offended by it, especially blacks.

[re_nortex]

Now that flag I would fly, if I were a Virginian!

Since your About page doesn't show your state, I can't determine where you're from. If you were (or perhaps are), a Mississippian, would you proudly flag this flag?

And what's your stance on the South Carolina Confederate flag controversy? In my opinion, Republican Governor Nikki Haley's decision to keep the flag flying on the statehouse's grounds is right. Actually my preference would have been to keep the flag in its prior location above the dome:

[celmak]

Thanks. I’ve tweeted back at those Libs your pics!

[NFHale]

“...Its simply a symbol of righteous defiance in my eyes and defiance is needed now more than ever...”

That’s about as excellent a definition as I’ve heard.

“Righteous Defiance”... I like it.

Anything that sticks in their craw, I like it.

[PowderMonkey]

The South sent the flower of its youth to a war of secession. And at war's end, sent its finest men to rebuild a mighty nation. I leave you with this last tidbit from history. God bless:
Robert E. Lee Loved his Enemies
"One day last autumn the writer saw General Lee standing at his gate, talking pleasantly to an humbly-clad man, who seemed very much pleased at the cordial courtesy of the great chieftain, and turned off, evidently delighted, as we came up. After exchanging salutations, the general said, pointing to the retreating form, 'That is one of our old soldiers, who is in necessitous circumstances.' I took it for granted that it was some veteran Confederate, when the noble-hearted chieftain quietly added, 'He fought on the other side, but we must not think of that.' I afterward ascertained--not from General Lee, for he never alluded to his charities--that he had not only spoken kindly to this 'old soldier' who had 'fought on the other side,' but had sent him on his way rejoicing in a liberal contribution to his necessities." from Part 8, Chapter 19 of "A LIFE OF GEN. ROBERT E. LEE." BY JOHN ESTEN COOKE