Thank you, Gov. Romney. You may sit down now. Thanks for coming out.
I was disappointed in Sen. Thompson's reply, however. He should have spoken to The New York Times and the NAACP (starting with Kweisi Mfume, who came in to pick up the pieces at the NAACP after all their internal scandals and demoralization) about their using someone else's symbol as a hate-puppet and a bloody-shirt issue, to chum up the black Democratic vote.
Sen. Thompson might have better replied that it was simply a diversionary "bloody-shirt" issue.
He need not have added, either, that the whole purpose of the Confederate flag issue is to try to split conservative Republicans living in the upper Midwest -- in the battleground states -- from conservative Southern Republicans.
Split the conservative vote and get 'em to stay home, and bring black voters to the polls with phantasmagoric visions of lynchings and George Wallace working a crowd of "crackers" -- that is exactly what that issue is about.
Please do not use offensive racial terms or slurs in posts at FR. It's a violation of the terms of service, whether you find that term demeaning or not.