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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: Impy; Perdogg; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; KC_Lion; sickoflibs

I’m seeing more BS linking the Stars & Bars and the Swastika*.

CSA = Nazis? Really? When did that happen? I guess I missed that.

So because a historic symbol gets bastardized, it automatically becomes evil? Today it’s the Stars & Bars...what’s next?

*Which was an American Indian symbol that was used as an insignia by a U.S. Army unit prior to WWII.


201 posted on 06/24/2015 12:01:29 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; Perdogg; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; stephenjohnbanker; Clintonfatigued; ...
*Which was an American Indian symbol that was used as an insignia by a U.S. Army unit prior to WWII.

Umm...... The Rainbow Pride Flag?

202 posted on 06/24/2015 12:05:45 PM PDT by KC_Lion (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! G-d bless you all!)
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To: KC_Lion

LOL!


203 posted on 06/24/2015 12:07:10 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Robe
It hard to believe how easily people are distracted!

This shooting had NOTHING to do with the confederacy ! This guy was pissed off about the WHITE GENOCIDES going on as we speak in South Africa and Rowanda.

But we cant have everyone focusing on THAT now can we? So... I KNOW we will make this guy into a southern confederate hold-out trying to bring back slavery!

I can't believe our leaders on the right are falling for this crap!!!!

204 posted on 06/24/2015 12:12:41 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, & R)
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To: KC_Lion; All

Was that used before the twinks stole it?


205 posted on 06/24/2015 12:39:02 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Rebelbase

LOL


206 posted on 06/24/2015 2:11:39 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: atc23

Right. The libs just shove it down our throats while the RINO’s “pretend” otherwise.


207 posted on 06/24/2015 2:12:56 PM PDT by Fledermaus (NO RINO 2016 or I stay home. Shove it FR RINO lovers.)
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To: LUV W

Yes, that’s what I figured, but that flag is rayciss, too.


208 posted on 06/24/2015 2:47:36 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Cancer-free since 1988! US out of UN! UN out of US!)
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To: Robe

It’s strange in Kentucky, because Kentucky did not secede, although it was a slave state. But whatever. It’s Kentucky’s business, not Mitch McConnel’s.


209 posted on 06/24/2015 3:09:37 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (End the occupation. Annex today.)
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To: wardaddy; Extremely Extreme Extremist
"Destroy everything to start new with a brown socialist utopia

You think you can placate them by sacrificing my children’s birthright

Don’t be foolish"

That's exactly right.

As I posted on another thread, after all traces of the Confederacy have been wiped out, what do you think they will do? Stop? No, they'll look around for their next crusade, and what might it be?

Maybe next up will be a certain white slave owner from Virginia, commonly called the father of the country. They'll demand his house in Mount Vernon be shut down...maybe turned into a home for unwed black mothers to exorcise the slavery taint.

Then there's Jefferson....his Monticello & Poplar Forest, the memorial, and on and on.

210 posted on 06/24/2015 4:22:14 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( ((("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))))
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To: Robe

My gosh, these were Americans, not ISIS. The nation was divided but they were still Americans, not terrorists. Tyranny has arrived and they have only just begun. All the news is all about race now which imo is extremely racist. There should be news about lots of subjects.


211 posted on 06/24/2015 5:13:39 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Send Barry from the white house to the big house (never happen but I can dream.))
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To: GOPsterinMA; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

I’m tired of this

Some Retard: “Hillary will win because of this”

Der, I think think the election will turn on IMPORTANT issues not meaningless crap. Anyone that likes the rebel flag can fly it in front of their damn house or put a decal on their pickup truck. It doesn’t belong flying in front of State Capitols and it never did.

Half the posts recently are either

1)Calling Republicans RINOS for wanting to take down the flag of the slave master’s rebellion that the first Republican President crushed, that should have never have been put up by sore loser democrats in the first place.

2)Calling Republicans RINOs for supporting lower taxes on imports.

LOL and LOL


212 posted on 06/24/2015 5:33:25 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: Impy

What’s cute is that last week, the “Republic, not a democracy” crowd was doing their usual talking points about how state governments are just so awesome and wonderful that THEY should have the power to single-handily decide ANYTHING they want. Letting the majority of citizens in a state decide the official policy of the state would be “mob rule” and we don’t want eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeevil democracy tainting that. Democracy is the WORST form of the government EVER. The state legislature knows what’s best for the state. They represent the interests of the state as a whole. The people have no buisness making those decisions, or the result will be “Two wolves and one sleep deciding what to have for breakfast”, blah blah blah.

This week, the southern state governments and legislatures are doing exactly that (deciding to purge the confederate flag from public display on state grounds, regardless of how their citizens feel about it), and the “States rights” crowd is doing a 180o degree flip-flip and going “but...but...the MAJORITY of our citizens WANTED the confederate flag on display!! They VOTED for that in a referendum!! HOW DARE THE STATE LEGISLATURE IGNORE THE WISHES OF THE PEOPLE!!”)

Ah, delicious irony.


213 posted on 06/24/2015 5:48:15 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: Impy; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

You Blue state Yankee!

For better or worse, that flag is historical. It’s not the same as a Swastika though.

Does it represent treason? Yes. But racial hatred or genocide? No.

Does it belong in State Capitols? That’s up to those individual states. If they want it, keep it, vote on keeping it, whatever. It’s a state issue.


214 posted on 06/24/2015 6:23:31 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; sickoflibs; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj

The Jefferson Davis statue: Again, vote on it. It’s a state issue.


215 posted on 06/24/2015 6:26:15 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: Impy; GOPsterinMA; BillyBoy; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale
RE:”Der, I think think the election will turn on IMPORTANT issues not meaningless crap”

Many in the GOP want issues like gay marriage, immigration and that flag resolved (given up) BEFORE the debates so that the GOP POTUS candidates are not asked about them and they can focus on questions on issues that the polls they see give them the advantage, like ISIS and jobs.

Of all three I listed, they figure if the SCOTUS decides to make gay marriage the national law of the land then that is a freebee for them.

The other two they figure that they risk backfire on from conservatives because they are involved, but decided its worth it as this post shows,.

216 posted on 06/24/2015 9:16:13 PM PDT by sickoflibs (King Obama : 'The debate is over. The time for talk is over. Just follow my commands you serfs""')
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To: GOPsterinMA; Impy; sickoflibs; fieldmarshaldj
>> The Jefferson Davis statue: Again, vote on it. It’s a state issue. <<

I have no problem deciding it by popular vote referendum, but again: the freepers affected by this are the ones who have been loudly SCREAMING for years about how state legislatures, NOT the citizens of a state, know what's best for us. They've said over and over again that the job of the state government is to determine the best interests of the state as a whole, NOT follow the wishes of the majority. "Republic, NOT a Democracy!!!" "Abolish the 17th amendment!!!" "Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for breakfast!!" "Democracy is MOB RULE!!"

We've been hearing it ad infinitum since their god Mark Levin informed them about a decade ago that it was now the most important issue on the planet, and they love to trash anyone who disagrees with them as a statist who "hates the constitution and the founding fathers".

Well, now they got their wish, their state governments are going to do what THEY think is best for their state, not giving a whiff about public opinion in the deep south and regardless of whether their citizens agree with it or not.

Be careful what you wish for, you may get it.

217 posted on 06/24/2015 9:21:16 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: CatherineofAragon

An American version of Chairman Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” has arrived with the Republican Party in the vanguard.


218 posted on 06/24/2015 9:33:43 PM PDT by Nextrush ( FREEDOM IS EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS, DON'T BE PASTOR NIEMOLLER)
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To: Robe
The matter of the Confederate flag is really a bit more complicated than many would care to admit--on either side of the issue.

For some, it is a symbol of vitriol and racism (which seems almost like a redundancy).

For others, it is merely a symbol of a heritage that should be embraced.

Sadly, too many people refuse to see the other side's point of view.

Precisely because it is seen by some, however, as a symbol of racism--and because I utterly detest racism!--it is probably best to remove the Confederate flag from official positions (such as the statehouse). And this view of the Confederate flag is not at all unsupportable: The Klan, for instance, has adopted it as its symbol.

Still, I would much prefer that the states make individual decisions here. Anything else smacks of political correctness--which I utterly despise!

And I am just a bit fearful that this may spread to other states--and that it may not be limited to the Confederate battle flag. For instance, some people, in different states, are now pushing for the removal of statues of Robert E. Lee, Nathan Bedford Forrest, et al.

As I noted previously, this looks too much like political correctness to make me entirely comfortable...

219 posted on 06/24/2015 10:40:55 PM PDT by AmericanExceptionalist (Democrats believe in discussing the full spectrum of ideas, all the way from far left to center-left)
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To: Robe

So Political Correctness de joure is the new standard of what historical monuments will be allowed? I think we owe an appology to the Taliban and ISIS for condemning their destruction of archaeological relics that they found offensive.


220 posted on 06/24/2015 10:56:42 PM PDT by anymouse (God didn't write this sitcom we call life, he's just the critic.)
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