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“Clearly our Lost Causers, typical Democrats, wish to have it both ways on this. On the one hand they deny the 13th, 14th & 15th were legitimately ratified, on the other they claim to support emancipation and citizenship for former slaves.”

I'm sure there is a Latin word to describe your faulty logic but I do not know what it is. I just call it wrong-headed.

Yes, I supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. And yes, I opposed the mob that attempted his high-tech lynching. But there was no “both ways” about it.

The elimination of the pro-slavery provisions of the United States Constitution was necessary and advantageous but it should have been done peacefully using the agreed upon amendment process without all the war and killings.

“Clearly our Lost Causers, typical Democrats, wish to have it both ways on this. On the one hand they deny the 13th, 14th & 15th were legitimately ratified, on the other they claim to support emancipation and citizenship for former slaves.”

I'm sure there is a Latin word to describe your faulty logic but I do not know what it is. I just call it wrong-headed.

Yes, I supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. And yes, I opposed the mob that attempted his high-tech lynching. But there was no “both ways” about it.

The elimination of the pro-slavery provisions of the United States Constitution was necessary and advantageous but it should have been done peacefully using the agreed upon amendment process without all the war and killings.

jeffersondem: "I'm sure there is a Latin word to describe your faulty logic but I do not know what it is. I just call it wrong-headed."

I never studied Latin, but I know there's nothing "faulty" in my logic.
I know you Lost Causers wish to deny the 13th, 14th & 15th's legitimacy and yet none of you will admit to wanting the status quo ante -- is that Latin enough for you?

jeffersondem: "Yes, I supported Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court.
And yes, I opposed the mob that attempted his high-tech lynching. But there was no “both ways” about it."

Of course there is, because at the same time you wish to deny legitimacy to the very amendments which made Justice Thomas a possibility.

jeffersondem: "The elimination of the pro-slavery provisions of the United States Constitution was necessary and advantageous but it should have been done peacefully using the agreed upon amendment process without all the war and killings."

Then talk to the ghosts of your own leadership.
Ask your own Jefferson Davis:

Why did Confederates provoke war throughout the South, seizing Federal properties, threatening Union officials, firing on Union ships.
Why did Davis order a military assault to "reduce" Fort Sumter, a clear act of war?
Why did the Confederacy formally declare war against the United States, May 6, 1861?
Why did Confederates fight Union troops in Union states?
Why did Davis refuse to stop fighting under any terms better than Unconditional Surrender?

Of course, you already know the reasons...