Discussion: Virginia Guv Directs State To Remove Confederate Flags From License Plates

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What’s funny about Virginia being basically a blue state these days is that I read the headline and go, wow, some common sense rationality from the GO----wait! He’s a Democrat! Ah ha!

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Oh the bigots must be in a collective lather. Time for Fox News to feature a Grand Wizard asserting the suppression of overt racism is infringing upon the free speech rights of the GOP base.

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  • SC Gov. Nikky Haley ® is pushing the legislature to remove the Confederate Flag
  • SC Sen. Lindsey Graham ® has stated he supports the removal of the Confederate Flag
  • TX, a red State, has fought all the way to SCOTUS and won against placing the Confederate Flag on license plates
  • Walmart has announced that it will no longer sell Confederate symbols or flags in it’s stores

Damn those racist GOPers!!!

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Paraphrasing John Oliver…

The Confederate flag should adorn belt buckles, license plates, t-shirts so we can readily identify them.

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I don’t think we need it to pick them out of a crowd. Racists have a stench about them that is distinct.

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Next abolish Lee-Jackson day, Virginia.

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…I don’t want to get that close to them…Give me a visual .

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So let me get this straight. The Democratic Governor gets the confederate flag off licenses plates right now.

But the Republican governor has to formulate a plan first to get it off the state capitol grounds.

Which party is it that gets things done again?

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Yeah, there’s nothing I hate worse when cruising down Virginia’s Jefferson Davis Highway than to see a Confederate flag license plate.

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Texas, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia (and Wal-Mart–not quite a state) . . .

It’s sort of like watching the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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Oh, my. As a Virginian with deep roots here, I can tell you I am going to be hearing a shit-storm of an argument soon. Unfortunately for me, I have family members on both sides of the license plate issue – mainly me against them. When I returned here a decade ago from having lived in California for close to 17 years, only to find that damned plate on several family cars, I found myself in a rather lopsided discussion about what that flag meant and how I saw it. After a few years, I just learned to keep my thoughts regarding the issue to myself. Oh, god – and the upcoming weekend being a family one, at that! LOL.

Thank you, Governor McAuliffe. Makes me just that much prouder of my state today.

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“Not all GOPers are racists, but all racists are GOPers.” See Trump, Palin, Cruz, DeMint, Graham, Hannity, Rush, Savage, Guilliani, and so on.

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And lest we forget: Former Virginia Governor George “Maccaca” Allen had a Confederate flag in his office.

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They may collapse. But just like the USSR they’ll still have their drunken skinhead hooligans roaming the streets and beating up gays. Some traditions are too cherished to let die.

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SCOTUS has just ruled that a state (Texas) could refuse to put a confederate flag on a license plate, so McAuliffe is on solid ground in what he’s doing.

Gov. Haley has to get 2/3 of each house of the SC legislature to void the law that keeps the symbol of racism padlocked to a pole by the Confederate Memorial on the Statehouse grounds.

McAuliffe’s decision to take advantage of a SCOTUS ruling is smart politics and good governance.

Haley’s sudden change-of-heart is also smart politics—but good governance is outside her ken.

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Agreed. But, to be fair, McAuliffe wouldn’t have the wind at his back with regards to the license plate without the recent SCOTUS decision. That decision makes it all the more difficult for those who disagree with him to have ANY legal wiggle room. Unfortunately for Haley or any governor of South Carolina, they are dealing with a very unique law created by the state legislature specifically for the confederate flag atop that dome.

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The most popular street name in VA is Lee. Jackson (Stonewall I presume) is big all over the south as well.

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Poor Poopies. Nothing is going the way she wants these days.

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Why did we all know that you would latch onto those examples of conservatives bowing to pressure and conflate 'em with trying to negate the larger issue of what a comfortable home for racists that the GOP has been for the last 50 years.

You’re transparent, predictable, and unintentionally hilarious.

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