Biden Calls For Confederate Flag To Come Down
CHRIS DODD IMMEDIATELY ONE-UPS DEMOCRATIC RIVAL BY CALLING ON GLENN McCONNELL TO TAKE DOWN HIS CONFEDERATE SHOWER CURTAIN
FITSNews - January 15, 2007 - Delaware Senator Joe Biden is apparently not satisfied with his one-point victory over rival Democrat Chris Dodd in the 2007 MLK Day Bowl. So he went for the jugular today by calling for the removal of the Confederate Battle Flag from the South Carolina State House Grounds.
Not to be outdone, Dodd immediately called a press conference and demanded that S.C. Senate President Pro Tempore Glenn McConnell take down his Confederate shower curtain.
“Until we remove bigotry from our bathrooms, we cannot expect to remove it from our hearts and minds,” Dodd said.
Well it didn’t take long for Campaign 2008 to break the seal on the Confederate flag issue, did it?
Oddly enough, the candidate all this “Flagapalooza” talk probably hurts the most is John McCain, who has already publicly admitted that his “Straight Talk Express” more closely resembled the “Slick Talk Express” back in 2000 when the subject turned to South Carolina’s peskiest piece of fabric.
“I feared that if I answered honestly, I could not win the South Carolina primary,” McCain said in calling for the flag’s removal shortly after losing the primary to George W. Bush. “So I chose to compromise my principles.”
Confederate flag supporters (a.k.a. “The Boys”) haven’t forgotten that, but with General Lee McConnell himself manning the “Bubba Caboose” of the Straight Talk Express, McCain’s admission is unlikely to cost him significant pro-flag support.
What will be interesting to watch is how former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt “Flip” Romney responds to the brewing flag flap.
Our bet is that if his polling data shows Republican primary voters are supportive of removing the flag, he will probably say that he has always supported removing the flag, ever since he was a baby in the womb as a matter of fact. A baby in the womb who opposed abortion, stem cell research and gay marriage, of course.
Then again if his polling data shows that the opposite is true and Republican primary voters oppose removing the flag, Romney will probably show up the next day wearing overalls with a Confederate flag draped around his shoulders and a piece of straw in his mouth. Speaking in a Southern accent.
Personally, we think “Flagapalooza” is much ado about nothing. But then again we are not ignorant rednecks or liberal D.C. news editors with axes to grind against ignorant rednecks.
We just want everybody to get along like Rodney King said.
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