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Senator Tim Scott to Call for the Removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the Statehouse Grounds
National Review Online ^ | June 22, 2015 | Charles C.W. Cooke

Posted on 06/22/2015 12:43:25 PM PDT by C19fan

All three statewide-elected politicians in South Carolina have now called from the Confederate Battle Flag to be taken down. The Post and Courier reports:

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: charleston; confederacy; confederate; confederateflag; csa; southcarolina
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I’ve a better idea

AlturaCt has been here longer than you

Why don’t you leave and take your overrated conscience with you to somewhere you’ll be more appreciated

Thanks


61 posted on 06/22/2015 1:54:00 PM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: Protect the Bill of Rights

Hmm...the “Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home” is a well known hysterical house in Columbia.

Looking forward to my next visit to the beautiful state of Virginia. Have friends in Burke & we always visit Arlington cemetery. Lived near Mount Vernon in my high school days. Powered down the Potomac to the Chesapeake back then.

Northern VA has become very multicultural & inclusive of late. Having Jim Moran as its rep didn’t help.


62 posted on 06/22/2015 1:55:49 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: wardaddy

It’s been Christmas time for the Southern haters on here today.


63 posted on 06/22/2015 1:55:59 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: central_va

I’d like to see them try to take down the monuments on Monument Ave or the statue of A P Hill on Laburnum.. (I was always fascinated by a grave in a traffic circle when I was a little girl).

Soon they will want to rename Ft Lee, Ft Pickett, Ft A P Hill. And on & on & on.

Give then an inch—you know the rest....


64 posted on 06/22/2015 1:58:05 PM PDT by Protect the Bill of Rights
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To: wardaddy

Who the h*ll cares if he has been here longer than me? He is on here, openly supporting white supremacist groups and ideas. That nonsense is not welcome here.


65 posted on 06/22/2015 1:58:22 PM PDT by Conscience of a Conservative
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
You nailed it. Once again, the Left and their media lapdogs are successful at changing the narrative...

Good point. But it can be turned against them if Repubs had a spine. in the meantime, non-elected conservatives can and should do the job they won't.

66 posted on 06/22/2015 1:59:56 PM PDT by celmak
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To: C19fan

We should just remove all historical artifacts that may be offensive to someone somewhere. Of course we’d want to put the liberals in charge of deciding which historical objects to shitcan. /sarc (Was that designation necessary?)


67 posted on 06/22/2015 2:00:16 PM PDT by lakecumberlandvet (APPEASEMENT NEVER WORKS.)
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To: central_va
If they take down the Confederate monuments it will mean the end of the GOP.

How so?

68 posted on 06/22/2015 2:02:16 PM PDT by celmak
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To: C19fan

Such courage in the face of demagoguery.


69 posted on 06/22/2015 2:03:02 PM PDT by demshateGod (The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.)
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To: C19fan

It’s the Democrat’s flag.


70 posted on 06/22/2015 2:07:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
But that’s beside the point...which is that a Democrat put it on top of the dome and a Republican took it off the dome.

So are you saying that repubs have been trying to get rid of the flag? If so, then we are in agreement.

71 posted on 06/22/2015 2:07:58 PM PDT by celmak
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To: Altura Ct.
Unity in the GOP is a myth.


The GOP is the JV team of the party of the democrat..

There, now it is correct.

72 posted on 06/22/2015 2:08:11 PM PDT by The_Republic_Of_Maine (In an Oligarchy, the serfs don't count.)
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To: C19fan

I fly the first Confederate flag on my dock ,the one that flew over Charleston during Ft. Sumter.I have to laugh
when people ask why I fly a Puerto Rican flag.


73 posted on 06/22/2015 2:08:47 PM PDT by Renegade
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To: celmak

If the GOP cannot stand up to this political witch hunt then they need to go the way of the dodo bird. Both senators and the governor of SC are caving to this PC crap, and freepers are going right along with it.


74 posted on 06/22/2015 2:09:31 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: dhs12345
"Just wondering if the Mexican flag is flown in public areas and if so, removed just like the Confederate flag."

Your answer is here; this is Los Angeles, 1994, a huge rally against Prop 187 and in favor of illegal immigration.

Not only did will you not hear any complaining about the Mexican flag from Republican office holders, you will find them saluting it.


75 posted on 06/22/2015 2:09:42 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

Yup. Expect more of it. The double standard continues.


76 posted on 06/22/2015 2:11:21 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: central_va
If the GOP cannot stand up to this political witch hunt then they need to go the way of the dodo bird. Both senators and the governor of SC are caving to this PC crap, and freepers are going right along with it.

Yeppers, the Repub politicians don't put the blame where it should be, and don't control the narrative. But sorry, this is one Abolitionist Evangelical Christian Conservative Freeper Republican that wants to see that flag gone.

Long live the Conservative Christian South !!!

77 posted on 06/22/2015 2:14:47 PM PDT by celmak
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To: RayChuang88
No one was politically correct enough back then. It required the current generation to advocate such a ban.

BTW this is the Stars and Bars


78 posted on 06/22/2015 2:16:14 PM PDT by Pelham (The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: C19fan

Our country is screwed.


79 posted on 06/22/2015 2:16:15 PM PDT by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: celmak

I’d like to see you gone. Find a better website, one that suits you. You like to hang out with cool conservative crowd but when push cones to shove you cave to PC, boot lickers like you can KMA.


80 posted on 06/22/2015 2:17:02 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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