Ted Nugent fires up GOP crowd, and not in a good way

CNN.com ^ | January 19, 2007 | AP

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Would you like to see the Confederate Flag Banned?

Nope. I just think it's not a fitting symbol for the party of Lincoln and thus has no place in an official GOP function. Jefferson Davis was a Democrat. Let the Democrats have that flag.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

Besides, I remember reading that LESS than 5-percent of Southerners of the pre-Civil War era actually owned slaves. And many openly opposed the idea of slavery.

I believe it was a lot more than 5% who were a part of slaveowning when you consider that a lot more than 5% of households owned slaves.

But when the time came, they joined the militias of their individual states out of a noble sense of honor, Southern honor.

You don't read the same history books that I do. I read of a heavy-handed conscription system far more onerous than anything in the North. I read about widespread desertion from the reb army as more and more of the conscripted mass realized that the slaveowners' confederacy wasn't worth dying for.

Several counties in my home state of Pennsylvania fought on the Confederate side...

Too bad for those counties in PA. Hopefully for the good name of those counties people will forget that. There was a lot more counties in the South that supported the Union. The funny thing was that those Unionist southern counties were the ones where slaveowning was largely absent which sheds some light on what really inspired the rebellion.

[Tim Long]

Nuge! Confederate flag? Don't you live in Michigan?

[xrp]

How many people did the machine guns kill?

[StoneWall Brigade]

The only reason why anything was said was because of PC and as along as people like Ted or me are giving money and support to the GOP we can fly it if we want too and if you don't like it don't look it or u can job with the NAACP

[HELLRAISER II]

What you say is true of course but if you don't believe that there is a double standard than you're fooling yourself.