The right is too intransigent to learn from their mistakes, to ideologically extreme to adjust or meet the rest of the world on common ground to form a consensus.
It is hurting them badly, and their war on women will continue to hurt them. It is the recognition of the harm they've done to their party with this course of action, their culture war, that has prompted them to trot out a token woman on women's issues, the way they trot out their token minority members on issues relating to race and ethnicity. In Haley's case, she's turning off the very people she's been sent out like a good little soldier to recruit and persuade.
However they try to spin it, the GOP is a party overwhelmingly of white people trying to preserve their dominance in the status quo, and overwhelmingly acting on behalf of corporations, the wealthiest 1% of individuals, and the corporate special interests that keep those few individuals disproportionately wealthy while pay for the average employee is stagnant or declines, or their jobs disappear entirely. At the same time, they do their best to reduce or eliminate the control of the company owners, the individual shareholders, who have less and less control over their boards of directors and their executive officers, and their decisions.
The GOP is the party that promotes and protects the outsourcing of jobs by the private sector, this is a party that embraces racism and exploitation. The GOP is NOT the party of job creation.
The GOP is the party that sells out the American citizen through the corruption of big money.The GOP is the party of polarization and division rather than consensus. The GOP is the party of obfuscation and secrecy rather than transparency.
Here is the telegenic Niki Haley trying to do damage control on the View for the GOP and for Romney, but mostly doing more damage in the process, not less. Good job, Joy Behar!
And while we're on the topic - it should be ILLEGAL to fly this flag of treason and insurrection over any state buildings, in any form, in any southern state. It should generate as much opposition as if it were a Nazi flag or the flag of any other notorious fascist or authoritarian government. It is an insult to every person who is loyal to the government of the Untied States, and in particular an insult to every descendant of slaves. Every day this flag appears anywhere that is public property, anytime it appears in conjunction with the authority or property of the state of South Carolina, it is an offense, and it is promoting continuing racism.
Joe Long is the curator of education at the Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum in Columbia.
"A flag is a symbol and one of the peculiar things about a symbol is that there's the message that someone is trying to convey and there's the message that somebody else picks up. It's not always the same message," Long said.
Long said that the battle flag was used because the Confederate army was having a hard time recognizing the Confederacy's official National flag. Today the battle flag remains the most recognized symbol of the Confederacy.
"When they put the flag up in 1961 the official message then was that it was for the centennial the 100-year anniversary of the war, Randolph said. "However even though they gave that message a lot of people nation wide took it as a thumb in the eye of the federal government involving the civil rights movement."
Dr. Daniel Littlefield is a history professor and researcher for African American studies. Littlefield said it is important to know that the confederate flag also represents a time of resistance to integration.
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I have no problem with recognizing this period of our NATIONAL history, but to do so in a way which conveys support for the confederacy, which acted illegally and which came into existence in large part to continue slavery out of fear it might end even sooner than it would otherwise, NO, that is wrong. The Confederacy does not deserve that respect or honor. It is the flag of a defeated enemy of the United States.
