Yes. And they ruined it for all the Germans who consider swastika’s a symbol of respect, integrity and duty.
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and Reince Priebus standing behind her for varsity GOP damage control.
Right. And I wonder how many of them are black.
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Well, I’m not sure what’s “right” about that, though I understand why it was done. I prefer a system that persuades rather than bans. This, if it works, is persuasion in action and that’s a good thing.
Definitely not true. First, she will get a lot of good press from this. Second, remember that the veep doesn’t have to win a primary.
I actually think it increases her chances. After the primary, the Republican candidate is going to look to move toward the middle and hope to appeal to women and minorities–or at least distance themselves from the more scary, intolerant wing of the party to appeal to whites that don’t want to be associated with racists.
South Carolina has only been flying it since 1962. That’s why the tradition argument falls apart for me. SC wasn’t flying it, then adopted the Battle Flag of Northern Virginia as a state symbol around the same time other southern states were incorporating it into their state flags. BTW, this is the flag the KKK was using as well.
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As someone said here before, why pick her? What does she bring to the ticket? Her state is already going to vote for the republican candidate.
This little song-and-dance won’t fool anyone except conservatives, who will howl in outrage.
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Haley has made some bad decisions that have been costly to the state of South Carolina. It was her fault, for example, that millions of social security numbers were easily hacked. Her knee-jerk partisan opposition to anything remotely related to the Affordable Care Act has been foolish and costly the state. Haley was reelected only because she is a Republican. She shouldn’t have allowed the Confederate war flag to fly high at the state capitol while all American flags in the state were at half-mast.
Nevertheless, she deserves credit for saying and doing the right thing today. This is not the time to criticize her.
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I respect the move and realize realistically that the governor of S.C. can’t be totally honest here. Politicians rarely are – grow-ups know this. But, really – the flag represents people that fought for a certain sort of “conflict” – it was to defend slavery.
Why did they put the damn thing up there? What else was going on in 1962?
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My god you are fucking stupid. Did anyone say every Democratic racist or nimrod became a GOPer? No.
Did most of the political party’s bases shift over civil rights? Yes.
But let me ask you these questions again which you have run from like the cowardly little puke you are, was Ken Mehlman lying when, as chairman of the RNC, he apologized for the use of the Southern Strategy by the GOP?
Was Lee Atwater lying when he explained how they knowingly shifted and adopted coded language to avoid saying “nigger nigger nigger” but achieving the same results?
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"Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand." - Friedrich Durrenmatt
And Alaska was already going to go Republican with their meager allotment of electoral votes when Palin was selected. Republicans seem to think that non-conservative voters are driven by identity politics. Many think Obama was elected President because he is black. Ultimately, I could see the undoubtedly white male Republican Presidential candidate selecting Haley because she is something other than a white male.
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Its too early. Let us see if she, Lindsey Graham or Tim Scott can win an election after this. Religulous conservatives are intensely loyal to people but also can turn on them if they betray their flawed dogma.
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The flag under discussion is NOT the Stars and Bars. This is the Stars and Bars, the first Confederate national flag. The one at the SC statehouse is referred to as the Southern Cross, and it is not the Confederate national flag, but one of the Confederate battle flags.
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They haven’t taken it down yet.
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Great, she kinda sorta did the thing we hoped would happen re: the flag.
I’m getting more and more nervous that the Confederate flag*, or maybe even this specific piece of cloth, is replacing the racially motivated terrorist mass murder as the focus of everyone’s attention. Nikki Haley is a politician; she can dance around on the fence between “it’s a symbol of hate and oppression!” and “it’s a symbol of pride and honor!” all day long without breaking a sweat.
If this is the only thing the media is paying attention to, less than a week on from a terrorist mass murder, then we’ve lost the opportunity to press her on what she’s doing to prevent the next racially motivated terrorist mass murder.
*Yes, yes, I know it’s not really the Confederate flag.
I have no doubt they’ll try this ploy again, because Hillary.
And South Carolina was a British colony for over 125 years… it was only part of the Confederacy for a little over 3 years… funny we don’t see them having a hue and cry to fly the Union Jack.
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From what I understand they’ll have to wait until December unless they call a special session and it requires a 2/3rd majority. I was referring to Nikki Haley’s about face.
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