Discussion: Rand Paul: Confederate Flag A 'Symbol Of Human Bondage And Slavery'

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“Human Bondage and Slavery Avenger” doesn’t sound quite as nice as “Southern Avenger.”

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Since Rand Paul’s father is notorious for his racist views, this is likely to cause a family rift.

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It’s funny to watch these folks falling over themselves to disavow their neo-Confederate fellow travelers. Don’t alienate your base, Rand–it isn’t good politics.

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Not just a family rift, this is going to cause a rift among his supporters. And reflects just how desperate lil Paul is getting. He is gambling that by coming out against the confederate flag, that the number of racists that support him will be smaller than the number of young kids he can woo to vote for him. He only does that calculus because he knows he is way behind in the polls and not moving up. And his lack of funding by a big billionaire undoubtedly plays into it, too.

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“I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery; you know, the Good Ol’ Days.”

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So how long did it take for this mophead genius to figure that one out?

Breaking News: Rand Paul sticks his finger in the air. Learns its time for all Baggers to seek cover due to strong winds blowing from a southernly direction.

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You can almost smell Rand’s flop-sweat through the interwebs.

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Remember Paul staff aide The Southern Avenger Jack Hunter?

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Speaking of Southern Avenger … he repents:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/06/22/the-southern-avenger-repents-i-was-wrong-about-the-confederate-flag.html

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Randy had to wait to see which way wind was blowing the flag…

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WTF… Seems like now all the GOPers are falling over each other to denounce the rebel flag, that was a sacrosanct heritage states-right issue a week ago.

Idiot Dylann Roof ruined the fun for everyone.

Now my proffered policy is let them keep their flags, but take away their guns.

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Listening to MSNBC right now…here’s the way they do their all-out analysis on of this type of story when it comes to the disgraceful way Republicans have skirted this issue up until now…As one of their phony political hacks just commented:

“The reason you have a lot of Johnny-come-lately to this confederate flag thing among GOP candidates is because It ‘treacherous’ for these Republican candidates due to the types of voters they’ve always relied on, and hope to attract in the next election.”

In Cable Newspeak parlance…that means, racist attitudes have been courted for so long by the GOP that it usually trumps everything else, attracting other racists to vote for them…But in this case, it’s not playing so well with the country this time, aware of the fact that recent events of mass killings have made it too difficult to say and do racist things, as they always have done, to get their base voters to pay attention to them. Ergo, we have many GOP candidates putting their racist views on hold over this issue…at least for now.

Don’t you just love the way cable news wants to “move the conversation forward on race” without having to use actual words to describe what Republican politicians have been saying and doing in this country for the last several years when it comes to courting people who hold racist views? When the media engages in euphemisms and muddies their analysis of what’s going on, they give the GOP a pass on a regular basis. How can anyone expect to take them serious when they call for having “an honest conversation” on race when they shield the offenders from the beginning?

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Last Thursday afternoon a TPM commenter noted how Gov. Haley carefully hewed to the GOP line that the AME massacre was just “an attack on Christianity.” Later that evening of June 18th, professional political observer Chris Matthews said this about Gov. Haley’s teary stagecraft:

I was really taken with your Governor Nikki Haley’s emotion on this an, you don’t fake that, that was real. That was a person’s reaction to a wound to society. Anyway, I like to see that non political reaction sometimes from politicians. Anyway, Jennifer (something), congratulations. I mean, I shouldn’t say that. I’m impressed with every print reporter I meet these days so. We’re a dying breed out there.

And, equally odd, Tweety considers himself a print reporter…delusional.

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If it weren’t for all of these people affecting issues, Ryand and the rest of the Republicans would be doing just fine.
As it turns out, legitimate rape is a much stronger subject for them as is denying health care. Throw in abortion and undermining the working class and they are in their wheelhouse.

Notice that it’s all Republicans having to admit that honoring the symbol of slavery is wrong. It hurts them but they are politicians after all.

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Really?

I thought it was the symbol of the invisible hand which was just going to work slavery, discrimination, racism, etc. out via market forces?

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Rand needs to make a trip to Frankfort, KY, the state capital, where there is still a statue of Jefferson Davis, adorning the Capital building’s rotunda.

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Tweety is a rude obnoxious self-promoting enabler as you so clearly point out in your example…

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Rand is right.

The simple fact is that the Confederate Battle Flag didn’t reappear in the old Confederacy until the civil rights movement started taking hold in the 1950s and was adopted as a symbol in opposition to equal rights for black Americans. The only exception to this that I’m aware of is the Mississippi state flag adopted in 1894.

You can talk heritage all you want, the battle flag is clearly linked to racial repression.

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You know you have a bunch of nut job candidates when Rand Paul sounds like their voice of reason.