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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

Remember all those concrete or stone statues of Civil War soldiers in the small towns squares in the south? Well, it won’t be long now. All those monuments on the various CW battle fields............... Got the picture?


21 posted on 06/23/2015 4:19:37 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: Robe

The GOP are such eunuchs they never say a word about Sheets Byrd:

http://www.c-span.org/video/?201172-1/senator-byrd-portrait-unveiling


22 posted on 06/23/2015 4:20:14 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Veggie Todd

Exactly. We should remove any Amrricans name. This is beyond stupid. But not out of the norm for this govt. Really pathetic.


23 posted on 06/23/2015 4:20:47 PM PDT by Carry me back (.)
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To: Robe

I’m a Pennsylvania yankee and even I say let the statue stay. It’s not racist, it’s a part of southern history.


24 posted on 06/23/2015 4:20:49 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (1 of 172)
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To: Joe 6-pack

America’s founding document, the Declaration of Independence, will not survive the discovery that it was written, in part, to protect the peculiar institution.


25 posted on 06/23/2015 4:21:34 PM PDT by jeffersondem
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To: Bell407Pilot

It’s clear the GOPEs truly believe they can continue to hold power by turning against conservatives. It’s clear also that they don’t even consider the “base” to be conservative. I think the GOPEs are wrong and with each passing day, my hope (and expectation) grows that they will be proven wrong beyond doubt in 2016.


26 posted on 06/23/2015 4:22:23 PM PDT by glennaro
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To: Robe

I think today is the day I’ve pretty much come to the conclusion I can never vote GOP again. I used to think I’d at least support some tea-party guys and whatnot, but the GOP has just become too much to stomach, with this insane parade of GOP-er’s lining up with the Leftist Nazis and spitting in my face.


27 posted on 06/23/2015 4:22:40 PM PDT by greene66
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To: Robe

So what is the argument? Jeff Davis WAS Secretary of War for the USA, and Kentucky was NEVER a part of the Confederacy.


28 posted on 06/23/2015 4:22:58 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Robe

Shut up, Mitch.


29 posted on 06/23/2015 4:23:25 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Robe

KR to Mitch : BUG OFF!


30 posted on 06/23/2015 4:23:29 PM PDT by kinsman redeemer (The real enemy seeks to devour what is good.)
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To: INVAR; sauropod; Robe
Sweet mother of God these crazed requests for "bans on everything" are escalating and accelerating.
One could envision a bunch of Libs and weak-willed RINOs getting together to "ride the feelgood wave" of banning guns.
RINOs would undoubtedly feel they are winning "points" for their so-called flexibility and moderation. Pathetic!
31 posted on 06/23/2015 4:23:32 PM PDT by Blue Jays (Rock Hard, Ride Free)
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To: LongWayHome

i can tell you this much... the GOP is deathly afraid of nominating another white christian man. the next couple of election cycles, they will be vying with the democRATS to be the first to nominate a women, a jew, an atheist, a homsexual, a latino, an albino, etc.

it’s no longer about the quality of the individual first, but which “first” they can become. the GOP has bought into the “equality of outcome” balderdash hook, line, and sinker.

the GOP is truly “democRAT Lite” now. i’m still registered as a republican, but i loathe the elites that run the party. maybe even more so than those in the democRAT party because the traitors in your ranks your ranks always do worse damage than the enemy across the field of battle.

i will never vote for another Bush. fool me once, shame on you. fool me twice, shame on me. fool me three times... nope, notgonnadooit.


32 posted on 06/23/2015 4:24:23 PM PDT by TangibleDisgust (The Parmesan doesn't go like that.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Just wait ‘til they find out we have a Jefferson Davis Parish in Louisiana............................ Like Lee county in FLA where they tried to remove the oil painting of Robt E. Lee at city hall. Amerika gone PC Nuts!


33 posted on 06/23/2015 4:24:25 PM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (2016 The RNC better come up with a Winner this time. Run some one like Cruz and Go for Broke!)
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To: LongWayHome

Republicans are so terrified it feels like they already lost the election in 2016, they stand up for nothing anymore. All they do is just do what the media tells them to do because they are afraid of being called racist..don’t they get it, it doesnt matter what they do they will ALWAYS be called racist


34 posted on 06/23/2015 4:25:20 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: Robe

If so.. Then why is mitch just now bringing it up? Was the statue ok a week ago, a year ago, a decade ago?


35 posted on 06/23/2015 4:25:42 PM PDT by plain talk
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To: rustbucket; wardaddy; stainlessbanner

Now there going after the memorials.


36 posted on 06/23/2015 4:26:04 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Robe
Sure, Mitch. The statue's gotta go, can't have anything that might be construed as political there, but what do we replace it with? Maybe they could make Fremont, Washington an offer:

Up the proletariat, Comrade!

37 posted on 06/23/2015 4:26:55 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Robe
I couldn't find a picture of a pusilanimous turtle. This will have to do.


38 posted on 06/23/2015 4:27:32 PM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes EVERYTHING)
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To: Joe 6-pack

The radio guy in richmond, of course a pretend conservative l,iberal plant. Said Jeff Davis hyw in Virginia name has to be changed. This guys IQ is about 50. I never listen to the station. Its clear channel and we get the establishment guy of the month. Never someone we can relate to. The putsiders are buying the Virginia newspapers and turnng them into yankee spin. If it hasnt happened with y’all, try not to let that happen.


39 posted on 06/23/2015 4:27:53 PM PDT by Carry me back (.)
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To: Robe

clintonh8r to Kentucky Republican primary voters: Thanks a lot.


40 posted on 06/23/2015 4:28:08 PM PDT by clintonh8r
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