Can I ask a stupid question? why are we having this debate again? Why is it happening right after the church shooting in South Carolina? Are the liberals going Alinsky on us, not letting a crisis go to waste, and dredging up this Confederate flag issue due to the shooting and charges of racism and all that???
That is how I see it.
Of course they are...it shouldn't surprise you. They've been waiting for an opportunity to take this up again.
That’s precisely what happened.
A SC state congressman or delegate brought it up.
These people sicken me.
Cruz very neatly side- stepped the issue by playing both sides of the question. I differ with him , as to his assertion that for some it is a “tradition” issue. He FAILS to point out that STATE’S RIGHTS WERE the ISSUE when the war started and that LINCOLN drew attention to the slave issue as a means of weakening the south after the war was going the way of the south. SLAVERY WAS NOT the reason for the WAR of NORTHERN AGGRESSION...
A polished politician knows how to dodge the truth. That’s strike two for me.
One of the stooges on late night was ranting about the confederate flag and how blacks are forced to drive on road with Confederate General’s names, blah, blah. blah.
It wasnt even an issue until he spewed.
Why? Because it brings out a small group of Republicans and conservatives that defend what most Americans see as undefensible. God, replace the Confederate flag withe the Nazi flag, would it still be acceptable for Germans and people of German heritage to fly it?! This really is no different.
This is one of those bloody shirts to wave that always stirs up people and cost votes, and costs more votes than it gains anyone. 50 Years ago it cost Democrats, now Republicans. The party least deserving of a racist and insensitive label get one because of this flip.
Credible, electable candidates will have to disavow the Confederate flag, else sit back and watch Clinton or any Democrat walk into the White House by a landslide.