[wardaddy]

"Why have conservatives been unable to resverse the socialist trend in this country? Because, many so-called conservatives today -- the neo-Confderates -- have imported into the GOP a veneration for the Confederacy which has absolutely nothing to do with the Republican Party" - Grand Old Partisan

Partisan, I actually agree with you on occasion on other topics but the surmisal above is simply....not based in reality. I don't think our Southern conservatism is harmful to the GOP...quite the contrary, it is the most reliable anchor the Pubbies have and the stats bear that out. Even detractors admit that.

[GOPcapitalist]

I don't think our Southern conservatism is harmful to the GOP...quite the contrary, it is the most reliable anchor the Pubbies have and the stats bear that out. Even detractors admit that.

Don't expect rational statements such as the above to phase him any. He thinks that the south of today votes republican because after the war a bunch of benevolent, caring, and conservative yankees moved down here and taught us to be like them...or something along those lines.

I don't think he has explained yet why, if those yankees were so conservative, they let their own part of the country turn into welfare-topias and urban murder cesspools. I'm sure he will get around to answering it someday and though I don't know what that answer may be, let me simply note that I would not be surprised if it involved some soviet-america conspiracy orchestrated by the elusive confederate "Knights of the Golden Circle."

[Grand Old Partisan]

You're the one injecting regionalism into the debate. In all my posts, I defy anyone to find any criticism of the South, ever. The forty percent of southerners -- the blacks and many poor whites -- who supported the Union during the Civil War -- and then voted Republican as soon as they could -- I praise, while northern Democrats (Copperheads) who supported the rebels I condemn.

What I do is criticize Democrats, then and now. It is not the Confederacy which is to blame for the Republican Party's inability to do more than slow down the Democrats' socialist onslaught, but the veneration for the Democrats rebels of the Confederacy by many Republicans today which allows Democrats to throw Republicans on the defensive on nearly any issue with charges that our motives are racist. I could go on, but I can't be expected to rehash what I spent two years putting into book form. See my website for more.