Comments on: Huckabee’s Confederate Flag Fraud

By: Thoughts on Politicians and the Confederate Flag « Altars & Firesides

Thoughts on Politicians and the Confederate Flag « Altars & Firesides — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 00:30:43 +0000

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By: The Southerner » The Blast Heard All Across the Southern Movement

The Southerner » The Blast Heard All Across the Southern Movement — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 16:03:01 +0000

[...] In reality, if you’ve had a hard time reaching Sullivan over the phone or in person, it’s because he spends all of his time on the phone getting involved in squabbles in the Sons of Confederate Veterans. He is now Commander-in-Chief of the SCV and spending virtually no time focusing on Southern Partisan. But this is no change. From the time he was hired as Editor, he’s done nothing but maneuver around the SCV, in hopes that it would translate into political action—which, in recent times, has meant campaigning for Mike Huckabee for President. See my article on Chronicles online: http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/?p=488. [...]

By: Robert Stacy McCain

Robert Stacy McCain — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 02:06:42 +0000

As my friend Jeff Quinton long ago explained to me, there is no dirtier politics in the world than a Republican primary in South Carolina. What was truly shocking was that Huckabee would be claiming to be pro-Confederate while simultaneously traveling with Gov. Beasley. By the way, I'm leaving The Washington Times as of Jan. 29 and going to Sudan next month.

By: Roach

Roach — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:12 +0000

Huckabee's populism is tromp l'eoil. It's the suburban populism of people making decent livings, driving minivans, who just want to be left alone in the comforting feelings they receive from their mega church, Oprah, and their comfortable ignorance of the past and other cultures. It's utterly feminine and weak, and Huckabee's 700 Club schtick is a far cry from the manly snake-handling religions of the rural south.

By: Charles

Charles — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 19:49:08 +0000

As usual Ron Paul doesn't meet expectations on discussing the War Between the States.Same can be said for immigration.He has a reasonably good position on illegal immigration,same cannot be said on legal immigration.Paul's passion is monetary policy.Give him a second and you can easily get hours on the gold standard.Paul is going nowhere and fast.He can barely hit double digits in his best state(Nevada).Now Paul has leveled out in middle single digit land.The GOP race will boil down to Romney and Amnesty McCain. I will vote for Romney.McCain is scary.The perpetual war hawk who loves pandering to the MSM.Like Amnesty-- love crazy John.War,war, war, and America as a Third World dumping ground --that's what you get with this grumpy,old, geezer.

By: rick

rick — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 14:45:20 +0000

"I'am sorry that people confuse elections with horse races in which you get money from siding with the winner" I am afraid thats not the case here in New Jersey

By: Chris Hewlett

Chris Hewlett — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:07:35 +0000

I'm in South Carolina and voted for Ron Paul last weekend. I even got my wife to vote for him as well. I think what we are dealing with is the very human weakness of always wanting to be associated with a winner. Nobody likes a loser. You can see this by post-election talk of a "boost" for such and such a candidate which leads to increased poll numbers for that candidate prior to the next state primary. I'm sorry that people confuse elections with horse races in which you get money for siding with the winner.

By: Tim Manning

Tim Manning — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:53:28 +0000

To answer the question at #39: Ron Paul did so poorly here in SC due to treason from the highest ranks of the Southern Heritage movement. In SC, it is the flagship for the hardest of the hardright voters. When the 'leaders' announced for Huckabee, Huck's numbers surged. The ads attacked McCain, but his supporters didn't care that he's bad on the Confederate flag. They also attacked Romney, and his numbers went up from 12 to 15%. His supporters were so anti-flag, that they swelled when they found out that he was also anti-flag. The Confederate flag is such an officially forbidden symbol that when it appeared that Southern Heritage was supporting Huck, and that Huck welcomed it, several percentage points immediately shifted from Paul to Huckabee. This is the only example, so far, of Paul supporters leaving him to support someone "who can win". What's worse is that if only those not in on the secret pro-Huckabee campaign had known what was happening, we could have piped up sooner and given Paul a very impressive showing. I'm beginning to think this was the national media's plan all along. Build, build, and build up their straw man (Huckabee), so that the would-be Paul voters will be too distracted to figure out what's going on. Too bad that even our own ranks fell for it and sympathized with the straw man. Of course, I agree with Fleming that none of this really means anything. Still, there is a strong paleo movement here in SC, and this treason dealt it a heavy blow.

By: Jim South

Jim South — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 21:38:48 +0000

we're young the world is yet young...so young it thinks it's old. funny. but that fact is cause for a tad of optimism. if it weren't i would not deceive you about it...i'm not the serpent...just the jack of hearts... i eat serpents if there's nothing else available. with fries...cooked in non-transfat 'beautiful' olive oil. that's no boner or on the other hand is it? drop the viagra. seriously lots of guys go blind with it, literally. (it's not highlighted in the ads...just in the disclaimer.)

By: Conservative Heritage Times » The Inside Scoop on the Confederate Flag Issue and Huckabee in South Carolina

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:34:39 +0000

[...] This article by Tim Manning was written before the South Carolina primary. It contains some of the inside scoop on how the the Flag became an issue late in the South Carolina campaign. For those who are unaware, a group of Confederate Heritage supporters bought some adds supporting Huckabee. This was apparently in an attempt to stop McCain more than it was committed support of Huckabee. Tim Manning is a Ron Paul supporter, and is upset that the Confederate Heritage supporters didn’t support their more natural candidate, Ron Paul, and didn’t do so earlier. I agree with him, although I don’t know all the personalities that were obviously involved. [...]