Fox News: Why Is GOP Answering For 'Democrats' Confederate Flag?

[Grassy Knoll]

[onecaliberal]

1. Because repuke states are flying it and defending it.

It is the flag THEY fought for, not democrats. Just when you think faux and republicans are soaked in stupidity they pull another from their collective ass.

[yeoman6987]

3. I am so sick of hearing that Democratic politicians

Started slavery, started the confederate flag, had democratic governors when the worst of the civil war was going on. That Alabama had a Governor who had to be forced to allow black kids in school. So what! Our party has changed and now fight for all rights. The Republicans fight everything good. Not to mention those very Democratic politicians would be Republicans today.

[MADem]

5. The "Democrats" who supported that crap switched to the GOP.

Democrat to Dixiecrat to Republican Strom Thurmond...

Young Democrat to Republican Trent Lott...

Democrat to Republican Jesse Helms...

Democrat to Republican Richard Shelby...

They switched parties because the Democrats went and ruined their "fun"--they eschewed the racism they held so dear.

[Downwinder]

2. Let's kick the Old Nixon around some more.

The .ghost that haunts the GOP

[Kalidurga]

4. Sooooooooooo Republicans now don't want to take down the flag, cuz Democrats?

Too funny. I don't care who takes it down. A flag that represents oppression of POC should never be flown over any government building nor flown on any government property.

[Major Nikon]

6. Does this idiot think those "Southern Democrats" moved North?

[marble falls]

7. Pretending that canard is true, why is the GOP not demanding it be torn down? Or has.....

their support of it been the result of an "evolution" of their attitude about Dixie? What sort of jiggery pokery is this?

[Fast Walker 52]

8. it's their typical strategy of hurling half-truths as a way of distracting from their own actions

[Paladin]

9. Why are present-day Republicans claiming to be in the party of Lincoln?

Or the party of Teddy Roosevelt, Eisenhower or even Reagan? Because they have no claim on membership in a respectable political party, any longer.

[maddiemom]

10. Oh, Reagan and his handlers should be Founding Fathers of todays' GOP!

[Paladin]

11. As loathsome as Reagan was, he wouldn't come close to a nomination, now.

Ted Cruz and Mike Huckabee would be shredding The Gipper over guns, religion, you name it. Just because the current crop of weasels continue to genuflect at the mention of Reagan's name, doesn't mean he'd survive in the far-right soup that's still referred to as the Republican Party.....

[demwing]

15. Just as Jesus wouldn't be allowed to preach in many modern "Christian" Churches

and just in case anyone get's me wrong, there's only 2 things Jesus and Reagan have in common -

1. They both have hypocritical assholes for followers
2. Neither survived their death

[Paladin]

16. Apt comparison. (nt)

[Beowulf42]

12. Duh!

It's as if these bobbleheads have missed out on the simple fact that things change. That Democrats have Evolved and unfortunately Republicans have Devolved. In the 60s Southern Dems became the new base for the Republicans AND, I repeat, AND they adopted the Confederate battle flag as their symbol of boorish resistance to integration, blacks, and PROGRESS, etc. Their venal lust for money has corrupted any humanity and reason they might still remain.

[IHateTheGOP]

13. Fox "news" is the biggest joke ever thrust upon the country

And all they really do is show how decrepit the repuglican party really is.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

14. I liken it to a game of musical chairs that was played half a century ago.

[JHB]

17. In 1860 the Republicans were a liberal-left party...

...and conservative characterizations of them would be right at home on FOX.

Below is a conservative political cartoon from 1860, engraved by Currier and Ives and published in Harper's Magazine.

See if you recognize the playbook:


http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003674590/

"The Republican Party Going to the Right House"

Lincoln rides in on a (fence) rail, carried by Horace Greely (anti-slavery editor of the New York Tribune), leading his followers into a lunatic asylum.
GREELY: "Hold on to me Abe, and we'll go in here by the unanimous consent of the people."
LINCOLN: "Now my friends I'm almost in, and the millennium is going to begin, so ask what you will and it shall be granted."

Younger Woman: "Oh! what a beautiful man he is, I feel a passionate attraction' every time I see his lovely face."
Bearded Man: "I represent the free love element, and expect to have free license to carry out its principles."
Man with trim beard and hat: "I want religion abolished and the book of Mormon made the standard of morality."
Caricatured black man: "De white man hab no rights dat cullud pussons am bound to spect' I want dat understood."
Older woman: "I want womans rights enforced, and man reduced in subjection to her authority."
Scruffy man with bottle: "I want everybody to have a share of everybody elses property."
Barefoot man: "I want a hotel established by government, where people that aint inclined to work, can board free of expense, and be found in rum and tobacco."
Seedy top-hat man: " I want guaranteed to every Citizen the right to examine every other citizen's pockets without interruption by Policemen."
Man at the end: "I want all the stations houses burned up, and the M.P.s killed, so that the bohoys can run with the machine and have a muss when they please."

Let’s go down the list, shall we?:
Supported by "liberal media": Check
Liberals will embark on profligate giveaways to THOSE PEOPLE? Check.
Flighty, emotional, entranced by charisma/celebrity? Check.
People conservatives consider sexual deviants? Check.
People conservatives consider religious deviants? Check (and how ironic, this particular turn).
Grasping minorities after special rights? Check.
"Feminazis"? Check.
There's a vast army of layabouts, thugs, terrorists, and outright thieves who want to take your hard-earned stuff? Check, check, check, and check.

The resemblance is uncanny.

[Jeb Bartlet]

18. Wow

the old "the confederates were Democrats" canard, how typical of FOX to propagate this intentionally misleading statement while completely ignoring the fact that these are Republican states that have the confederate flag with Republican run state governments. But I guess you can't expect much more from an arm of the Republican party to run from their own racist ideology.