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Mitt Romney: Take Down the Confederate Flag, It’s ‘A Symbol of Racial Hatred’
breitbart ^ | 6/20/15 | a hawkins

Posted on 06/21/2015 5:21:08 AM PDT by bestintxas

On June 20 former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney called for South Carolina to remove the Confederate flag from their state Capitol grounds in Columbia.

His call comes in the wake of the heinous attack on Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It follows a photo of the suspected gunman, Dylann Roof, in which Roof is seen leaning against his car with a Confederate flag license plate visible on the front of his vehicle being widely circulated.

Here were Romney’s exact words: “Take down the Confederate Flag at the SC Capitol. To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred. Remove it now to honor Charleston victims.”

With this, Romney joins President Obama in calling for the flag to be removed. In so doing, the former presidential candidate fails to realize he is taking a page of out of the left’s playbook, whereby they blame the flag instead of the miscreant, the gun instead of the gunman, etc.

While Romney’s motivations for doing this are unknown, the left does it because crisis affords them a window of opportunity whereby they can use emotion to succeed where reason has failed.

On April 17 Breitbart News reported that a group of black students demanded that Washington & Lee University–the very namesake of General Robert E. Lee–remove Confederate flags from campus and bar the Sons of Confederate Veterans from marching on campus for Lee-Jackson day, among other things. The group deemed the flags offensive. On July 27 Breitbart News reported that Washington & Lee University capitulated.

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Romney, the job seeker who no one likes, goes after everyone but the killer.
1 posted on 06/21/2015 5:21:08 AM PDT by bestintxas
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Another northeast lib/RINO who just doesn’t get it.


2 posted on 06/21/2015 5:22:30 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: bestintxas

“Take down RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE”.


3 posted on 06/21/2015 5:24:12 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: bestintxas

You know, I was just sitting here wondering, “what does that old Progressive Republican has-been, Mitt Romney, think about all this?”

Or not. Just shut up, Romney.


4 posted on 06/21/2015 5:25:42 AM PDT by Colonel_Flagg ("Politics is downstream from culture." -- Andrew Breitbart)
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To: MayflowerMadam

People from the northeast are arrogant power-mad control freaks, generally speaking...


5 posted on 06/21/2015 5:26:46 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“Another northeast lib/RINO who just doesn’t get it.”

GOP Pissing off Southern voters is the way to win Southern Democrat hearts.

The man is a Godsend for Democrats, and he is cementing is already solid reputation of being in the dust of history.


6 posted on 06/21/2015 5:26:55 AM PDT by bestintxas (every time a RINO loses, a founding father gets his wings.)
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To: bestintxas
Dear Mr. Romney:

I would contend that anything connected with the Mormon Church, believing in (huh?) Joseph Smith, is an insult to thinking people everywhere. Could you please insist that any flags or symbols that acknowledge the Mormon Church be removed from public view? They're a celebration of a history of polygamy and silly underwear, and I'm offended by all of that.

7 posted on 06/21/2015 5:27:17 AM PDT by grania
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To: bestintxas
former loser GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney...
8 posted on 06/21/2015 5:30:46 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: bestintxas

Exactly the reason Mitt wasn’t elected. PC BS. If he had jumped off the PC Bandwagon like the Donald did he would had a grand slam homer of epic proportions.

He never learned that you cannot listen to any dem. Don’t follow the Media Agenda.


9 posted on 06/21/2015 5:32:35 AM PDT by ImJustAnotherOkie
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To: bestintxas

Stop baptizing Jews after they’re dead, Mormon weirdo.


10 posted on 06/21/2015 5:34:14 AM PDT by mindburglar (When Superman and Batman fight, the only winner is crime.)
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To: bestintxas

Why can’t losers Romney and McCain just go away? They’ve had much more than their 15 minutes of fame.


11 posted on 06/21/2015 5:42:00 AM PDT by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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To: bestintxas

Take down the angel Moroni statue on the top of Mormon tabernacles - it’s a symbol of using the cult’s polygamy laws to oppress and abuse women.


12 posted on 06/21/2015 5:42:28 AM PDT by zencycler
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To: MayflowerMadam

As a Yankee, my first thought was “In his imagination.”


13 posted on 06/21/2015 5:43:33 AM PDT by Cboldt
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To: bestintxas

Hey Mitt,when I want your opinion I’ll ask for it.


14 posted on 06/21/2015 5:46:51 AM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: bestintxas

Jeb Bush has said the same.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/jeb-bush-romney-join-calls-removial-confederate-flag-article-1.2265298


15 posted on 06/21/2015 5:49:02 AM PDT by Ironfocus (Texas!)
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To: Cboldt

I have a front licence plate that has an American Flag and a Confederate Battle Flag together. I’ m thinking of removing it from my truck and hanging it up in my garage.
I’m concerned that I am making myself and family a target of some wacho.
This is a sad day for our Country.


16 posted on 06/21/2015 5:49:15 AM PDT by TNoldman (AN AMERICAN FOR A MUSLIM/BHO FREE AMERICA.)
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To: bestintxas

No, it’s not. It’s another symbol they have designated as racist in order to trap anyone who sees it as a symbol of states’ rights.


17 posted on 06/21/2015 5:50:33 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: bestintxas

Technically so is the American flag to a lot of people.

Because we all know that cloth comes down a pole and starts beating people, so we can stop so much by banning the cloth!


18 posted on 06/21/2015 5:54:10 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: bestintxas

Mitt, I was think the exact same thing about Barry the other day.


19 posted on 06/21/2015 5:56:51 AM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches and get with what's real.)
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To: bestintxas

Random Freeper: Shut your mouth you never were, wannabe has been.


20 posted on 06/21/2015 5:56:57 AM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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