[MikefromOhio]

STOP FABRICATING US HISTORY!

That's all they can do at this point. It's clear their warping of states rights has fallen on deaf ears.

The CSA wannabes here (not to be confused with those who are proud of their history), want to frame the debate as a states rights thing, but that's not what the CSA was actually fighting for and the declarations from the states of the CSA prove it.

Any system that held another human in slavery should have been abolished. It's too bad that the people who held them went to war to try to keep them. It's also very sad that people who call themselves freedom-loving conservatives need to warp a noble cause like states rights to cover for this abomination of a system.

Conservatism is not compatible with slavery. Shilling for the CSA cannot be considered a conservative act in any way.

[cowboyway]

It's also very sad that people who call themselves freedom-loving conservatives need to warp a noble cause like states rights to cover for this abomination of a system. Conservatism is not compatible with slavery. Shilling for the CSA cannot be considered a conservative act in any way.

How many more times are you going to post this same pablum, spike?

We get it. We all know where you're coming from. Now why don't you just go on back to DU and slam Sarah Palin some more.

[central_va]

Conservatism is not compatible with slavery. Shilling for the CSA cannot be considered a conservative act in any way.

So says you. Nobody is defending slavery. Secession was legal and still is legal, you don't have to like the reason for it, it could be over tulip bulb futures.

There is nothing wrong with defending the South in her secession bid, wanting a decentralized National Government is the most conservative value there is. To criticize the South for seceding makes you a hypocrite, relishing in her defeated makes you a state-ist, a big government goon.

[lentulusgracchus]

Conservatism is not compatible with slavery. Shilling for the CSA cannot be considered a conservative act in any way.

So "conservatives" from Ohio and the Midwest should never, ever, vote for or cooperate with a Southern conservative, because Southerners won't disown their past, right?

That is exactly Clinton's politics. And you're doing Clinton politics on Free Republic.

Gotta give it to you -- you've got brass ones.