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Mitch McConnell to Kentucky Capitol: Lose the Jefferson Davis Statue
Nationl Journal ^ | 6/23/2015 | Nora Kelly

Posted on 06/23/2015 4:10:58 PM PDT by Robe

The Senate majority leader told reporters Tuesday that the memorial belongs in a museum, not the statehouse.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Kentucky
KEYWORDS: 2016election; battleflag; confederateflag; election2016; fumm; kentucky; mitchmcconnell; tedcruz
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To: Robe

The truth is that Jeff Davis’ stupidity regarding generals and the military probably was more significant in losing the Civil War as much as anything else.

His ridiculous trust in generals like Braxton Bragg lost him the west, and that lost the east.

If the South was destined to lose, the Jeff Davis was the agent of that loss.


181 posted on 06/24/2015 7:09:40 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Pray for their victory or quit saying you support our troops)
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To: Robe
In Baltimore, some Confederate statues were recently vandalized and attention by the media to point out other statues in the city is in my opinion not helpful.

The media also pointed out that there is a Robert E Lee park in the city.

I wonder how many state flags will go next including Maryland's flag of reconciliation.

182 posted on 06/24/2015 7:38:47 AM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: INVAR

Hint: TPP and Jade Helm are connected...


183 posted on 06/24/2015 7:47:41 AM PDT by Lexinom
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To: INVAR
We have no idea what is about to happen to us

I'm afraid you are correct.

My first exposure to kids from the South was at the 1964 BSA Jamboree at Valley Forge. I had been taught in school about the wisdom of "binding up the nation's wounds" after Appomattox, and the pride those boys from the deep South showed in their symbols reinforced the wisdom of the policy of CSA tolerance in my mind, an impression that has persisted to the present.

Anyone who believes that the upsurge in racial violence and hostility since 2009 is caused by the stars and bars is a fool.

It is unbelievable that elected Republicans either a) believe that erasing CSA heritage will improve matters, or b) that they have any chance whatsoever of garnering votes from CSA haters. It won't, and they don't.

I'm as Yankee as they come. The furthest South I've ever lived was Central Brooklyn.

But this sheep stampede is disgraceful, and (unfortunately) as you say, it's probably a sign of worse to come.

184 posted on 06/24/2015 7:58:35 AM PDT by Jim Noble (If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
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To: wardaddy

Mob Rule only works for them, not for us.


185 posted on 06/24/2015 8:09:24 AM PDT by two23 (Ignore the media. It isn't propaganda if we don't listen.)
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To: wardaddy

If you get off I10 at the Bay St Louis/Waveland exit you can see the high water mark on the bridge on the interstate. They have a marker there. It still blows my mind the water went so far inland. Actually Beauvoir was pretty significantly damaged. I believe a good portion had to be rebuilt. But yes I was just there this weekend because my husband was in Biloxi Regional and it’s sad to see all the historical home placemarkers in front of empty lots.


186 posted on 06/24/2015 8:09:51 AM PDT by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: Robe

Since 1989, the Republican Party’s strategy for opposing the Left’s agenda has been to take one step forward and two steps back. McConnell and his ilk take it to a new extreme: one step forward, ten back.


187 posted on 06/24/2015 8:15:22 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: INVAR
Soooo…. when everyone jumps on the bandwagon to ban guns and repeal the Second Amendment - I wonder how fast that will blow through the country?

Even if you don't care about the Confederate Battle flag as such, this issue is the canary in the coal mine. If establishment Republicans like McConnell, Graham etc. march to the Left's tune on this issue, they'll march to the Left's tune on any other issue when there's an opportunity to pander.

Incidentally, what have the GOP Presidential Primary candidates been saying? Graham already loudly and smarmily sided with the radical Left, of course, and I'm sure that Jeb Bush was right behind him.

188 posted on 06/24/2015 8:19:36 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Robe

Is he calling for Mississippi to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Statuary Hall collection as well?


189 posted on 06/24/2015 8:20:17 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: Robe

To Caintukky: Lose Mooch McConjob!!


190 posted on 06/24/2015 8:20:57 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: Lexinom
Hint: TPP and Jade Helm are connected… I have no doubts.

Dress rehearsal for when the real plan is implemented. Connecting all the dots is not hard.

Just listen to the hate and vitriol towards those this regime and their praetorians are telling the populace are their enemies.

191 posted on 06/24/2015 8:40:26 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: ek_hornbeck
Even if you don't care about the Confederate Battle flag as such, this issue is the canary in the coal mine. If establishment Republicans like McConnell, Graham etc. march to the Left's tune on this issue, they'll march to the Left's tune on any other issue when there's an opportunity to pander.

That needed repeating because THAT is exactly what will happen next.

Incidentally, what have the GOP Presidential Primary candidates been saying? Graham already loudly and smarmily sided with the radical Left, of course, and I'm sure that Jeb Bush was right behind him.

Rand Paul: Confederate Flag “Inescapably A Symbol Of Human Bondage And Slavery”

“… I think to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s times to put it in a museum.”

The WHOLE LOT of the GOP filed (Except Ted Cruz who blundered badly on TPP) - are on the Ban The Flag and Southern White Males Bandwagon.

192 posted on 06/24/2015 8:46:30 AM PDT by INVAR ("Fart for liberty, fart for freedom and fart proudly!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: INVAR
I think that Cruz said that it should be left up to the people of South Carolina, a technically correct if "safe" answer.

As for Rand, it's true that he's trying hard not to sound like his father. The trouble is, he's sounding "not like his father" on all the wrong issues by going the PC route.

193 posted on 06/24/2015 8:51:36 AM PDT by ek_hornbeck
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To: Robe
I nominate McConnell to be put in a Museum. A wax museum next to Cecil Turtle.


194 posted on 06/24/2015 9:59:53 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing
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To: Robe

Kentucky Capitol to Mitch McConnell-—get stuffed


195 posted on 06/24/2015 10:05:49 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!w)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Texas has never used the battle flag. The 6 Flags includes the Stars and Bars.


196 posted on 06/24/2015 10:09:11 AM PDT by luvie (All my heroes wear camos! Thank you David, Michael, Chris, Txradioguy, JJ, CMS, & ALL Vets, too!w)
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To: Ryan Ruck

ping


197 posted on 06/24/2015 10:13:01 AM PDT by timestax (American Media = Domestic Enemy)
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To: Fledermaus
they are just as bad or worse. . . .
198 posted on 06/24/2015 10:18:20 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Fledermaus
they are just as bad or worse. . . .

Actually worse because they have the Trojan Horse effect going for them. At least the liberals don't pretend to be anything other than Marxist/Leninists

199 posted on 06/24/2015 10:19:19 AM PDT by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever)
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To: Robe; All

The news media used a single act by a single individual to take away our freedom of speech. If people don’t see now that the media is the enemy and the problem I don’t know when they will


200 posted on 06/24/2015 10:31:42 AM PDT by Democrat_media (Obamatrade is really Obama changing immigration laws to import billions of people from 3rd world)
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