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.
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.
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.
Hint: TPP and Jade Helm are connected...
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.
Mob Rule only works for them, not for us.
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.
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.
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.
Is he calling for Mississippi to remove the Jefferson Davis statue from the Statuary Hall collection as well?
To Caintukky: Lose Mooch McConjob!!
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.
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.
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.
Kentucky Capitol to Mitch McConnell-—get stuffed
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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
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
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