Posted on 02/10/2003 9:19:12 PM PST by generationgop
Senator John Edwards, Yet Another Democrat Double Standard Posted Monday, February 10, 2003 | Email a Comment
Presidential Nominee Hopeful Campaigns At Former Slave Owner Home Campaign Decision Comes Less Than Three Months After Lott Resignation
Democratic presidential nominee hopeful Senator John Edwards (D-NC) has proven yet again that he will say and do whatever is needed to gain the democratic nomination, proving yet again practicing the democrat “do as I say, not as I do” philosophy.
In the midst of the now infamous Strom Thurmond birthday party, presidential nominee hopeful John Edwards has decided to campaign at the home of former confederate hero, William Aiken, Sr. It has come to the attention of Generation GOP Mr. Aiken’s home is famous for being a former slave house in South Carolina.
Just last December, Democrats attacked and questioned then Majority Leader Trent Lott. Public scrutiny and respect for the Republican Party forced Senator Lott into resignation from party leadership. Less than three months later, Senator Edwards’ decision to campaign at the famous slave owner’s home exemplifies the very definition of the word, “hypocrisy.”
“This is just another example of the democrats picking and choosing what is morally right on one day, yet not applicable the next,” said Generation GOP Executive Director Josh Cooper. “I do not think Senator Lott’s comments were appropriate nor do I think Senator Edwards’ actions are acceptable. Young people across the country do not want leaders who flip flop for political gain. Perhaps this is why the young people are trending towards conservative leadership.”
Senator Edwards’ double-speak on this issue is yet another example of Democrat double speak and double standards.
In most recent polls, Senator John Edwards trails Senators Joe Lieberman and John Kerry for the Democratic nomination for president. Despite the other candidates’ lead, Senator Edwards has picked up support from former president Bill Clinton and has hired several high profile Democratic aides to his campaign.
“Senator Edwards’ is content to flip and flop on the issues from state to state,” said R. Stuart Jones, chairman of Generation GOP. “America needs a leader who sets an agenda and moves the nation to real conservative progress.”
According to RNC Research, Senator John Edwards votes against President Bush’s Bipartisan tax relief package and even voted against a ban on partial birth abortions. Furthermore, from 1999-2002, Edwards voted with Senator Ted Kennedy 90% of the time and with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton 89% of the time.
Conservative leadership?!? Heck son, a conservative wouldn't have thrown a man to the multiculturalist wolves for just praising a sitting Senator. I'll agree, Lott was wishywashy but good grief, even Al Sharpton stated he had apologized enough. It's not like he said something racist!! But that wasn't enough was it? And Sen Edwards having a meet and greet at a fine Southern gentleman's house is unacceptable?!? I don't agree with Edwards' political views, but he's done more in one action than any Republican besides maybe some boys down in GA have ever done for Southern heritage. Agreed, he flipflopped, but he's at least showing up at the house. What's acceptable to you then? Racist organizations like the NAALCP and the SPLC coming from out of state and attacking South Carolinians for wanting to protect their heritage? At least the good folks of Mississippi were willing to stand up to them. And you can't explain that can you? The numbers counted for voting for the flag required blacks to vote in the positive. What do you say about that?
Oh, but I forgot. It's not the PC revisionist history taught to all the little school children now is it? I tell you boys, it's getting to the point that both parties are losing the South. We're cannon fodder for a bunch of yankee political parties. Looks as if whoever can throw the South and our history to the wolves quicker will win.
So tell me, if being politically correct is important to advancing what we all believe in, and the majority of these United States claim to be Christian of one denomation or other, and it's not politically correct to state you're a Christian or share your beliefs, what exactly are we advancing again?
The same could be said of smaller government, states rights, the right of a citizen to carry a firearm, a Republic instead of a democracy, no welfare, etc. All these are un PC to talk about. But if we can't talk about them and defend them, how are we supposed to advance them?
No the point being made here is that Edwards and Lott were wrong, and Edwards wasn't called on it, when in fact neither one of them in their actions did anything wrong. Apparently, a good Edwards would condemn Southern heritage (as apparently all of us, even those in the South, are supposed to do), as he supported the racist boycott in SC, while a bad Edwards went to a meet and greet at a historical house.
I tell you boys, it's getting to the point that both parties are losing the South. We're cannon fodder for a bunch of yankee political parties. Looks as if whoever can throw the South and our history to the wolves quicker will win.
It's getting so ridiculously Politically Correct that politicians will soon start accusing each other of carrying coins in their pockets that depict "A Former Slave Owner Home".
How else could you explain Grand Kleagle Bobby Byrd's ascent in the Senate?
It was not meant to be clever. It was meant to illustrate the folly of Conservatives engaging in the race-bating tactics of Left.
Was slavery an undisputable blot on American History. Yes, it was. As Robert E. Lee wrote in 1856,
“There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. It is idle to expatiate on its disadvantages. I think it is a greater evil to the white than to the colored race. “
However, the Americans that lived in the latter 1700’s and the ante-bellum 1800’s were men of their time. Any American from that bygone era would be a moral embarrassment if judged by selected 21st Century standards. If you read some of the things that Lincoln said during the Lincoln-Douglas Debates about blacks integrating into white society, they would sound as if they were taken out of a David Duke speech.
I understand that it is now not only Politically Correct but also highly encouraged to demonize any individual in American History that had any connection with slavery or the ante-bellum South or the Confederacy just as it was once Politically Correct to demonize Vietnam veterans as "baby killers".
However, once you start down that slippery slope, you had better be prepared to take up the demonization of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, half of all the Founding Fathers, the Star-Spangled Banner, every historical house south of the Mason-Dixon Line, the defenders of the Alamo and even U.S. Grant whose wife, Julia, would bring along her slave “Black Julia” to take care of young Jesse Grant whenever Julia Grant visited General Grant’s Union Headquarters which was quite often.
The Left is playing that game and now it seems that some short-sighted Conservatives are playing that game too.
I, myself, am not a Southerner but I grew up in the South and I know that Southerners,
1. Deeply love America and the Constitution.
2. Have always been front and center to take up arms in defense of their American homes.
3. Are a cornerstone of modern Conservatism
4. Take their History very seriously.
5. Are sick and tired of having their History demonized and ridiculed.
If you think that you are helping the Conservative cause by demonizing ante-bellum Southerners, believe me, you are not.
FRee dixie,sw
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