Huckabee Courts Confederate Vote

THE SOUTH WILL RISE AGAIN!!!!

nice touch huck what other do you endorse beside the us flag? flags are emotional, and to stir the pot sort of speak, does a disservice to he rest of the country. pandering usally does not work

Bigot! Way to continue to divide the country! First, religion.....Second, the Confederate Flag....Gee what a great guy to represent this country....NOT, NOT, NOT!

"but the folks I see displaying it don't really look all that much like historians."

Tommy- You are too funny.

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I really do not get why Huckster would bring this subject up as a major issue. The flag is a state issue and has squat to do with running for president. Forget if you like or dislike the flag. He should have never brought it up and if asked...he should not get into an issue that is a symbol of pride to some and hate to others. NOT SMART! I bet however many votes he gets from pandering to the flag lovers in SC ....he will get three times as many or more that will never vote for him nat. now.

Huckabee's buddies who donated tthe maximum about of money to him and then paid more for the nasty push polling gossip done against Romeny and McCain are slime! Huckabee is in the bottom of the slime bucket. He gives a bad name to the word Baptist and should be ashamed of himself! HE COULD HAVE ASKED HIS FRIENDS NOT TO STOOP TO SUCH DIRTY TACTICS!

If you read what Huck said he said it was up to the state to decide about the flag. This shows Huck understands that United States is just that a union of states. The federal govt is supposed to create an enviroment for which the states can direct their own policies. As for the confederate flag it represents two things to me. One it stands for the terrible truth that slavery was allowed in our country. Every state should apologize for allowing it to happen. The Second thing the confederate flag stands for is state right to choose their destiny. The civil war was a misguided effort by the southern states and we our lucky that Abraham Lincoln was president at the time to bring our great nation back together, and Mike Huckabee can be the president we need to set our country on the correct course. Which is fair tax plan, and most important I hope is to deal with the deficit.

Tommy,
Gingrich? Oh , I hope not. He might be the one of the quintessential Republicans on policy but Newt has a ball and chain around his leg called personal scandal. It caused him to lag when he ran on his own and you can bet it would make him dead weight now too. It is hurting Rudy now so it most likely would hurt Newt again. Don’t ask who my ideal would be…??

I sure hope you are right about Huck…I just wish he would get ate already. Kind of like the Super bowl party you go to where Chitlings are cooking…oh lord they stink like Huck…You just wish someone would hurry up and eat the nasty things so you don’t have to smell em anymore.

Huckabee did not support this. He was questioned on television last night explaining that the group promoted this view outside of his campaign party. He denied this issue as something the president should even deal with. It is a state issue. The state is given power under the 10th amendment under the constitution to decide with autonomy issues such as flying a flag like the confederate flag. If you really believe everything here on this media source you are in trouble with more than the election.

So we live in a free country? Examine yourself! What Huckabee is saying is that states have rights, and the FEDERAL government does not have the rights to go sticking there nose into every issue, including a flag, re-appropriating gas taxes to other states as they deem necessary, etc. When are we as a people going to recognize that interference is more offensive than a flag?

So we live in a free country? Examine yourself! What Huckabee is saying is that states have rights, and the FEDERAL government does not have the rights to go sticking there nose into every issue, including a flag, re-appropriating gas taxes to other states as they deem necessary, etc. When are we as a people going to recognize that interference is more offensive than a flag?

Pablo67-
So if a state wants to have the swastika, mushroom cloud over Japan, a cowboy shooting an Indian, etc… on a flag that would be okay cause it is a state right? If a state wanted to fly a noose that would be okay to since it part of the states history, right? Forget the population of Jews, Japaneese, African Americans, and Indians that would be offended…right? The confederate flag is a symbol from a war fought to continue slavery. The South- thank God lost. The flag lost. The ideal lost. It is a part of history and should be kept as that- just a piece of history…. as swastikas are etc. If someone wants to fly it on private property then that is their right but flying it on a government building as if the flag symbolism still exist or the flags ideal was won should not be tolerated. I am white and I have lived in MS all my life. We voted on the flag and of course he flag still waves on the state buildings.

At least Huckabee is a MAN ! Both McCain and Romney are a couple of spineless weak girlie/men! if they can not defend the people of South Carolina against hate, then how can they defend America against ANY threat? vote for a man not a wimp!

At least Huckabee is a real man! Both mcCain and Romney are a couple of spineless weak boys! If they can not defend South Carolina against the Red Scum, how can they defend America with a real threat? Vote for a man not a coward!

I think the flag issue is overblown. I'm not in the south, but I think those who are proud of their southern heritage should be able to express it by flying the Confederate flag. I live in Hawaii, and our State flag is also the Nation of Hawaii flag. I take no offense to those here who want to express their pride in the nation of Hawaii with it, and I think I would be offended if other states were to dictate the people of Hawaii's rights to fly their flag.

I admire Mike Huckabee's stance on this issue. It may be a suicidal stance, electability-wise, but at least, to me, he shows he's willing to take a stance that may not be popular with everyone.

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Huck Your exactly what we need.Keep the flag flyin and keep reading the bible. Whoever dont like can LEAVE. Your gone do good in the Great State of MISSISSIPPI.

Huckabee was right. Those who are dividing this country are the anti-flaggers, who are promoting ignorance. That flag represents either the Confederate navy, or Confederate veterans, who withstood four years of overwhelming odds, and choice surrender rather than full-out guerrilla warfare.

The North benefited from slavery. They ran the slave ships, even when it was illegal to do so after 1808. They got their cotton cheaper than otherwise, allowing their factories to succeed.

In short, Southerners may have treated blacks as pets, but Northerners treated them like pet mills.