Posted on 11/20/2018 1:49:02 PM PST by Mariner
Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith smilingly posed for a photo in 2014 while wearing a Confederate cap and holding a rifle, then put the image on her Facebook page with the words "Mississippi history at its best!"
That image, taken at a Mississippi museum, resurfaced Tuesday as AT&T, Leidos and Walmart joined two other companies, Union Pacific and Boston Scientific, in asking Hyde-Smith, a Republican, to return campaign contributions because of controversy over her recent jest about being willing to attend a public "hanging."
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I am commenting on the lack of common sense in this day and age where anything and everything can come back on you.
You stuff it and try a little logical thinking.
So our people have to campaign very smartly and stay on the offensive, framing the issues in a way favorable to us, and avoiding the landmines set out by the media/'Rats. In this age of worldwide information access, any kind of embarrassing stuff is going to be dug up by the media/'Rats. Be ready with a simple, succinct, effective response, then insist the questions move on to other things. If they try to stick you with more flypaper, just rip it off and say something like, I always answered that, and next question.
No. There isn’t a ‘’lot of blame to go around’’. It’s the South that bought all of this down on the nation.
Slavery has been around since the beginning of recorded history and it still exists.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/06/slavery-still-exists/
Well done
Reasonable thought will go for naught though with this crowd
Cheers to Pennsylvania
All this south bashing and baiting over a confederate forager cap
Man it takes litlerally nothing to get the resident assholes here going does it
F off.
Prove you have brain.
Nobody that fought for the Confederacy had any thing to apologize for. Agree?
Yes, but some are just too uninformed to know that there ia a runoff election pending.
They were honorable soldiers fighting for their homes and way of life.
What’s to apologize for?
Wow, you sure decompensated quickly on that one.
That’s okay. I didn’t know it either until I heard it from Dinesh D’Souza.
Some of it is the consequence of the old line Trotskyites who hitched themselves to the Reagan Revolution and in the process began promoting their own contempt for the South in conservative circles. This gets picked up by new opportunists like D’Souza who spread it far and wide to a generation whose knowledge of American history comes from Hollywood and schoolbooks written by the likes of Howard Zinn.
Clyde Wilson once pithily described what has happened:
““The offensives of radicalism have driven vast herds of liberals… into our territories. These refugees now speak in our name, but the language they speak is the same one they always spoke.”
I’m a little late to the shindig ;’}
My question would be to Mississippians and those (like you) who follow Mississippi politics closely: does it appear that any of this “wearing confederate cap” foolishness is getting traction? It doesn’t matter what us dayum yankees think - only what the voting public in Mississippi thinks - right?
FTR: I don’t GAD about what she wears - only how she votes. Judging from reports she won’t be much of an asset. I hope for all our sake that I’m wrong.
It’s what makes progressivism so appealing to the so many
Cheap righteousness and virtue"
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That is very true.
Actually many of the British grants and deeds engendered court cases for years after independence. The same is true with lands taken or bought from Mexico.
Secession would only be legal with an amendment allowing it.
The Union was perpetual and not dissolved by the choice of one or more states. The constitution explicitly gives the fed gov the power to suppress Insurrection.
Meanwhile, her opponent wears no hat but is always black
How is it fake? She wore it. She also has said several stupid things over the past month.
Once the Union was formed under the Constitution there was no such thing as voluntary withdrawal. The only means of being out of the Union was not to ratify to begin with like R.I. and North Carolina.
At the founding most of the founders who were slave owners hated the institution and were aware that it was against the Natural Law.
After the Cotton Gin was invented the attitude changed from necessary evil to a positive good by the time of the War.
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