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Romney, Thompson criticize Confederate flag
CNN ^ | 11-28-2007 | – CNN South Carolina Producer Peter Hamby

Posted on 11/28/2007 8:28:48 PM PST by Eddie01

COLUMBIA, South Carolina (CNN) – Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Sen. Fred Thompson of Tennessee criticized the Confederate flag, which happens to be hoisted on the Statehouse grounds in the early primary state of South Carolina.

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Both candidates are front-runners in South Carolina. Both may have to answer questions about those comments next time they hit the state.

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(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: cbf; confederateflag; crossofsaintandrew; debate; dixie; gopdebates; saintandrewscross
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To: stand watie

I promise you will be one of the first to know when this thing goes to publication. You will either love it or hate it! lol

I hope it’s the former...:<)

P.S.
My favorite Stand Watie quote, from letters he wrote my grgraunt.

Summer, 1863 “Sometimes I examine myself thoroughly and I will always come to the conclusion that I am not such a bad man at last as I am looked upon. God will give me justice. If I am to be punished for the opinions of other people, who do not know my heart, I can’t help it.”

Watie concluded. “My great crime in the world is blunder. I will get into scrapes without intention or any bad motive. I call upon my God to judge me, he knows that I love my friends and above all others my wife and children, the opinion of the world to the contrary notwithstanding.”

Stand Watie


101 posted on 11/30/2007 9:52:15 AM PST by AuntB (" It takes more than walking across the border to be an American." Duncan Hunter)
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To: Hunterite
"To me it means cheap-labor, open-borders, free-traitors."

It appears you're confusing the Confederate flag with the UN flag. Not a oft-seen mistake.

102 posted on 11/30/2007 9:56:36 AM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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To: Lazarus Longer
Not a oft-seen mistake

It's probably a first, actually.

103 posted on 11/30/2007 10:00:37 AM PST by Mr. Mojo (“Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss.")
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To: longtermmemmory
LTM, In support of that assertion, I found CNN posted the story complete with the term "criticize" within minutes after the debate ended, could have been there sooner.

I then posted here. A followup was posted 6 hours later at newsbusters. On Thursday (next morning), I checked the link and found it broken. Upon further investigation, I discovered CNN moved the dateline to the 29th - same exact story.

Motivation? Just amazing.

104 posted on 11/30/2007 10:04:16 AM PST by Eddie01
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To: AuntB
:the boss" (at least imVho) is the most UNDER-rated of the CSA's General Officers.

i'm proud to be his MULE-holder.

free dixie,sw

105 posted on 11/30/2007 2:06:36 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: longtermmemmory; All
anybody that TRUSTS the "clinton news network",i.e., all klintoon all the time, is a DUNCE.

free dixie,sw

106 posted on 11/30/2007 2:08:40 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Eddie01
What I don't get is why they even bothered to answer the question.

IMHO, they should have simply said, "Frankly, I couldn't care less what that flag means to you or anyone else. With the war in Iraq, our war with radical islam, out of control illegal immigration, an entitlement-driven fiscal crisis looming, an Iran hell-bent on getting nukes, and dozens of other pressing problems, we don't have time for such trivialities. I suggest we move on to the next question, which will hopefully be something substantive."

107 posted on 11/30/2007 5:11:43 PM PST by curiosity
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To: Coldwater Creek
It is a big issue to the people of Tennessee!!

Then they're idiots.

108 posted on 11/30/2007 5:12:27 PM PST by curiosity
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To: BillyBoy
Lookee here, fresh meat!! Buncha DAMNyankee FOOLS and SCALAWAGS!! They're out to destroy your confederate hertiage. You gotta defend your SOUTHRON honor!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

109 posted on 11/30/2007 5:16:52 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist
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To: curiosity
It is a huge part of their heritage!
110 posted on 11/30/2007 6:15:56 PM PST by Coldwater Creek
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To: Coldwater Creek
It is a huge part of their heritage!

Perhaps, but it isn't part of the heritage of the rest of the country. If they want to celebrate it, that's just fine and dandy; let them fly their flag outside their homes or private clubs or put confederate stickers on their pickups. I don't give rat's ass.

It's of no concern to the country as whole, and hence of no concern to the president. Hence anyone who makes an issue of it during a presidential campaign is an idiot.

111 posted on 11/30/2007 8:18:53 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity
did you have an ancestor in the WBTS??

NO??? (i thought not.)

free dixie,sw

112 posted on 11/30/2007 9:33:39 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: curiosity
thank you for your (idiotic) personal opinion.

free dixie,sw

113 posted on 11/30/2007 9:34:37 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Eddie01
Romney said we didn’t need that flag, but Thompson said it was a historic flag like many others.
Thompson could see it flying with a bunch of historic flags, but not by itself.

There is no reason to obsess about that flag IMO.

114 posted on 11/30/2007 9:36:11 PM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: WFTR
I agree. Times have changed and these antics the democRATS pull just will not fly in these times. Do you think supporters of FRED and Romney will run to Rudy-tooty who will abolish whatever gun rights he can while he is in office?

FRED THOMPSON will be the winner in South Carolina. I assure you!

115 posted on 11/30/2007 9:40:48 PM PST by Bobbisox (ALL AMERICAN "LAZY " GRANDMA FREEPER. A LOYAL and DEDICATED FredHEAD!)
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To: stand watie
did you have an ancestor in the WBTS??

Nope, and neither do most Americans.

Hence the flag is not a matter of national concern. At most it's a matter of regional concern. Why then are you making it an issue in a presidential campaign?

If you care so much about it, go bother your gubernatorial candidates and state legislators about it, but don't waste the rest of the country's time with your fetish.

116 posted on 11/30/2007 10:08:28 PM PST by curiosity
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To: curiosity; All
once more, you're welcome to your opinion. (it's called FREEDOM OF SPEECH.)

the ONLY reason that this is an VERY IMPORTANT national issue is that the answer, given by each candidate for POTUS, tells us a lot about whether they believe the federal government should stay OUT of the affairs of citizens/towns/counties/parishes/states or not.

fwiw, i want the government OUT of our church/businesses/schools/lives FOREVER. (don't go away mad,just go away.)

further, the GOP cannot win without the solid support of all the dixie states. the truth is that get right on the local/regional issues (which are important to each region) or LOSE the election.

free dixie,sw

117 posted on 12/01/2007 7:36:41 AM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: Rick_Michael
bah...what a waste of a topic. Who cares!?

I co-host a talk-radio show in Columbia.

Answer: A h@ll of a lot of Southerners. No topic has ever resulted in as many call ins as the Romney/Thompson flap. The wrong answer to that question ended the political careers of SC Govs. David Beasley, Jim Hodges, and Georgia Gov. Roy Barnes. The "wrong" answer on that question defeated McCain in SC in 2000, and if my callers are right (and there were a lot of them)it could cost Romney the lead in SC, and hurt Thompson. The Ron Paul/Duncan Hunter/Mike Huckabee campains are rejoicing.

Who cares? You obviously don't live in Dixie. There is a lot more loyalty to the Confederate flag in the South, than there is to the Republican party.

118 posted on 12/02/2007 3:07:14 PM PST by l8pilot
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To: l8pilot
WELL-said, my compatriot-in-arms.

free dixie,sw

119 posted on 12/02/2007 3:10:46 PM PST by stand watie (Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God. Thomas Jefferson, 1804)
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To: stand watie
There is a HUGE amount of anger rising in DIXIE that is focused upon the Republocrat (Republican-Democrat) party. Generally, folks down here believe that the Republicans have betrayed the Southern ideals of fiscal responsibility, limited government, Christian restraint, and a strong national defense.

Although we have always been ready to fight the yankees wars for them, there is a Scots-Irish anger rising over the fact that we are fighting for our natural enemies, the Anglo-Saxon Cromwellians of the Northern States.

Ron Paul has united Christians, Southrons, Black and White, libertarians, Republicans and Democrats, all of which just want government to stay out of our lives.

The Free Republic, Republican groupies, who have forgotten what freedom means should take notice. A rEVOLution is taking place.

The Republic is watered by the blood of Tyrants, Republocrat, and Democrain.

Liberty

120 posted on 12/02/2007 8:54:52 PM PST by l8pilot
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