Those Patriotic Conservatives!

by: Jack McCullough

Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 06:00:00 AM EDT

UPDATE--Oh, that slavery thing?

Guess I just kinda forgot.

Elections have consequences. We can celebrate that at the national level when we have a president who ends torture, prevents a depression, and makes the first steps toward health care reform.

We can also see it at the state level, and it isn't always pretty.

Take Virginia, for instance. Just last month we saw Virginia's new attorney general, Ken Cuccinelli, order all of Virginia's colleges to start discriminating against gay people, reasoning that there is no basis in Virginia law to treat them as equal human beings.

RICHMOND -- Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli II has urged the state's public colleges and universities to rescind policies that ban discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation, arguing in a letter sent to each school that their boards of visitors had no legal authority to adopt such statements.

After health care reform passed Cuccinelli announced that he'll join the groundless federal case challenging the health care reform law.

The latest move is right at the top, though. In addition to a new Republican AG, Virginia has a new Republican Governor. You know what he's into? Supporting slavery and treason.

Gov. Bob McDonnell (R) has quietly declared April 2010 Confederate History Month, bringing back a designation in Virginia that his two Democratic predecessors -- Mark Warner and Tim Kaine -- refused to do.

The last Republican governor, George "Macaca" Allen, also signed on in favor of the Confederacy back in 2002.

The next time you hear some conservative attacking liberals as being anti-American and unpatriotic, just remind him about this.

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Those Patriotic Conservatives! | 3 comments

Telling in its hate and fear (4.00 / 4)

This sums it up nicely.

As the Bard of Chicago aptly notes in response to Governor McDonnel's apology for domestic terrorism and treason -- "[these treasonous Confederates] fought for their homes and communities":

No. its leaders did not fight for "their homes and communities and Commonwealth."
Its leaders fought for the right to keep other human being as slaves: to work them like animals and kill them at will.
Its leaders fought for the right to enforce the institution of slavery with state-sanctioned terror and murder.
Its leaders were known as "Confederates".
To preserve and defend their monstrous institution, Confederates spent centuries constructing massive social, economic, religious and cultural fortifications around it.
Like hemophilia, Confederates passed that comprehensive social, economic, religious and cultural worldview down generation after generation.
Like syphilis, to this day Confederates continue to spread that social, economic, religious and cultural worldview everywhere they go.
About 40 years ago, the Confederates changed their name [to conservative Republicans]

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-- Religion is like sodomy: both can be harmless when practiced between consenting adults but neither should be imposed upon children.

by: Caoimhin Laochdha @ Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 11:15:33 AM UTC

Chap Petersen (4.00 / 1)

Democratic state representative in Virginia's 34th, writes at his blog Ox Road South:

...his proclamation -- and the predictable blowback on the progressive side-- has nothing to do with the Civil War experience of Virginia, which suffered uniquely in the War. Instead, it's a superficial paean to an era that never existed.
Bad politics is one thing. Bad history is quite another...My point is that there is a lot to remember and celebrate as we approach 150 years from the Civil War. I'm proud of this state and my family's connection to its history. We have gotten better with age. And we can do better down the road.
But we won't accomplish that if we ignore our own history.

The post is considerably longer than my small excerpt here and is worth reading.

"That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State ..."- Vermont Constitution Chapter 1, Article 16

by: kestrel9000 @ Wed Apr 07, 2010 at 13:07:43 PM UTC

Holding hands with foreign kings is anti-American and unpatriotic .... (0.00 / 0)

... And it fits right in with confederate aims - perpetuating and extending human slavery and oppression.

We'll get a lot more traction with changing present day trends, if we remember those southern traditions, and remember that the south never really gave up the fight.

We can govern ourselves better than they govern us!

by: govt4all @ Thu Apr 08, 2010 at 00:29:51 AM UTC