Lindsey Graham... the endangered South Carolina RINO...
and Timothy Scott.
Beware! Next time somebody's trolley jumps the track they'll want Fort Sumter, too...
It comes at an exceptionally affecting national moment. It is hard to imagine that there are one in a thousand Americans who have not been moved by the expression of love that the people of South Carolina have expressed for the congregation of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It would be enough were it simply a matter of condoling neighbors in the wake of the murders committed at the church. But given the history of South Carolina and the racism of the killer, it adds up to a historic moment.
Governor Haley made a point of acknowledging that not all those who see in the Confederate flag a symbol of southern patriotism are racists. She was equally forthright in acknowledging the offense the flag gives to so many others. After all, iterations of the treasonous tatter were flown by a confederacy that encompassed much of the slave empire. Millions in South Carolina and the rest of Dixie are horrified at the flag. Not to mention the offense it gives to those states that stood loyally with the Union cause.
Today the Democrats are trying to palm off the idea that the Confederate Flag is largely a cause of Republicans. No doubt the Republicans have waffled on this issue. Senator McCain got entangled in the confederate flag as recently as the 2008 election, and George W. Bush, too, though he wouldn't fly it over the capital at Austin. But so did the Democrats, including such figures as Governor Dean, the Vermont leftist who said as recently as a decade ago that he wanted to be the candidate of "the guys with Confederate flags in their pickup trucks."