Dem plant at GOP event

[LeroyDumonde]

How sad is it the Republican party is still so infested with racists that it actually hurts a Republican candidate to say the truth about the Civil War being fought over slavery?

Wow.

Just...wow.

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery"

Abraham Lincoln's letter to Horace Greeley:

Hon. Horace Greely: Executive Mansion,
Dear Sir Washington, August 22, 1862.

I have just read yours of the 19th. addressed to myself through the New-York Tribune. If there be in it any statements, or assumptions of fact, which I may know to be erroneous, I do not, now and here, controvert them. If there be in it any inferences which I may believe to be falsely drawn, I do not now and here, argue against them. If there be perceptible in it an impatient and dictatorial tone, I waive it in deference to an old friend, whose heart I have always supposed to be right.

As to the policy I “seem to be pursuing” as you say, I have not meant to leave any one in doubt.

I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be “the Union as it was.” If there be those who would not save the Union, unless they could at the same time save slavery, I do not agree with them. If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union. I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause, and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors; and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views.

I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free. Yours,

A. LINCOLN

Letter to Horace Greeley (August 22, 1862) – Lincoln's Writings

 

[LeftofLeft]

Love it when Dems go after women of color.

Dems will go after anyone of color if they are in their way. Dems are all about people of color when they do what they are told to do.

when and where has a Dem not smeared a person of color that was not one of them?

 

[francoHFW]

The Crazy Klanocrats are still trying to fight the Civil War.
Civil War questions are just as irrelevant as War of 1812 questions.

Sure, ask a minority

 

[BluesLegend]

Dirty tricks by Democrats are no longer a surprise to us. It looks like Dems will go lower than low in order to make a Republican look bad. We've seen them do that with Trump many times.

---She later accused the voter who asked her about the cause of the Civil War of being a “Democrat plant,” the New Hampshire Journal reported.---

Haley seeks to clean up controversial remarks on Civil War

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) on Thursday sought to clean up controversial remarks in which she failed to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War. “Of course the Civi…

thehill.com

Democrats are scheming lying lowlife filth so not surprising.

 

[westwall]

That's nice kid.

Run along now, the adults are talking.

Then you better shut up, skippy.

 

[yidnar]

How sad is it the Republican party is still so infested with racists that it actually hurts a Republican candidate to say the truth about the Civil War being fought over slavery?

Wow.

Just...wow.

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery"

Haley wont be the nominee ... get ready for 4 more years of Trump !

 

[JohnDB]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the North was forcing economic hardships on the South when things like cotton, tobacco, sorghum and etc were getting 50% better prices in Europe (with free shipping) than they were to the Northern States who had a blockade against the farmers in the South to keep them from shipping their goods to Europe.

So the Southern States had to use slaves just to survive farming and the economic abuse by the North.

Northern states were under pressure because they relied upon industrial processing of Southern goods sold to Europe. They would buy the Southern Cotton, turn it into cloth and try to sell it in Europe....but unless it was deeply discounted Europeans were uninterested in purchasing the cloth.

Also there wasn't much in the way of a forecasting of what crops to grow....so at times the seed for growing cotton was costing more than the cotton it would produce.

So...where slavery was an issue...it was a natural result caused by Northern economic pressures. But they fought over it just the same.

 

[g5000]

Haley wont be the nominee ... get ready for 4 more years of Trump !

Trump is going to lose even more bigly than he did in 2020, and I'm going to have a belly laugh every day until he dies, and even for a few years after that.

 

[otto105]

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the North was forcing economic hardships on the South when things like cotton, tobacco, sorghum and etc were getting 50% better prices in Europe (with free shipping) than they were to the Northern States who had a blockade against the farmers in the South to keep them from shipping their goods to Europe.

So the Southern States had to use slaves just to survive farming and the economic abuse by the North.

Northern states were under pressure because they relied upon industrial processing of Southern goods sold to Europe. They would buy the Southern Cotton, turn it into cloth and try to sell it in Europe....but unless it was deeply discounted Europeans were uninterested in purchasing the cloth.

Also there wasn't much in the way of a forecasting of what crops to grow....so at times the seed for growing cotton was costing more than the cotton it would produce.

So...where slavery was an issue...it was a natural result caused by Northern economic pressures. But they fought over it just the same.

Fuckup was that blockade before or after Fort Sumter?

 

[Hossfly]

Does anyone know the name of the person who asked Haley the question ?

Fellow named Billo_Really

 

[bripat9643]

At least the secessionists were honest enough to say they were seceding over slavery.

Too bad the cowardly racists of today don't have the guts to admit it, and it is so pathetic Republican candidates are even more cowardly in their fear of these chickenshit racists.

"Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery".

Lincoln didn't invaded Virginia to end slavery. He did it to make Virginia collect Union tariffs.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Dirty tricks by Democrats are no longer a surprise to us. It looks like Dems will go lower than low in order to make a Republican look bad. We've seen them do that with Trump many times.

---She later accused the voter who asked her about the cause of the Civil War of being a “Democrat plant,” the New Hampshire Journal reported.---

Haley seeks to clean up controversial remarks on Civil War

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) on Thursday sought to clean up controversial remarks in which she failed to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War. “Of course the Civi…

thehill.com

Oh come on.

Dems don't need to make Haley look bad, she does it to herself.

She's a neocon globalist shill, as one wise Orange Man once recently put it.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

She took a question from a young person and offered an answer designed not to hurt white feelings.

"Not to hurt white feelings".

As if all white people are the same.

We're clearly not.

After all, only a thoroughly brainwashed minority contingent of us would say something as patently stupid and racist as "white feelings".

You militant Leftist slime dog you.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

That’s pathetic, kid. You appointed yourself from a position of intellectual superiority without any independent validation.

And a healthy dose of evidence to the contrary.

 

[MarcATL]

Republicans are always screaming about how it was the Democrats who enacted and enforced slavery and here each and every Republican poster is defending what, allegedly, Democrats did.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

That's nice kid.

Run along now, the adults are talking.

HA!

Crapitus fancies himself on the adultin' circuit.

Next he's gonna try speed dating.

 

[RhodyPatriot]

Nikki Haley got it right when she answered the question. Economic freedom was the reason. The North was denying economic freedom to farmers in the South.

The complex truth is that there was far more to it than slavery, and most Confederate foot soldiers were fighting just because they were being invaded.

Not to mention some of the worse atrocities of the war were committed by the Union. (Think the burning, rape and pillage of Atlanta for one. And many of those killed by the Union were recently freed slaves.)

But that aside - this incident proves that not only is Haley a bad politician who isn't ready for a General Election face off with the Deep State - she's still a warmongering blowhard who's on the take from the Defense Industry.

So next time some RINO pussy starts blathering on about "she'd do so much better in a general election."

NO. She would not.

She's McCain. She's Romney.

She ain't Trump.

And her pathetic whiff on this simple softball right down the plate is only the latest prominent example of this undeniable fact.

So she can fuck off.

 

[Rawley]

That's nice kid.

Run along now, the adults are talking.

turn your hearing aid up gramps

 

[LeftofLeft]

Republicans are always screaming about how it was the Democrats who enacted and enforced slavery and here each and every Republican poster is defending what, allegedly, Democrats did.

Show one example

 

[Tumblin Tumbleweed]

Dirty tricks by Democrats are no longer a surprise to us. It looks like Dems will go lower than low in order to make a Republican look bad. We've seen them do that with Trump many times.

---She later accused the voter who asked her about the cause of the Civil War of being a “Democrat plant,” the New Hampshire Journal reported.---

Haley seeks to clean up controversial remarks on Civil War

Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) on Thursday sought to clean up controversial remarks in which she failed to mention slavery as the cause of the Civil War. “Of course the Civi…

thehill.com

These days, the GOP picks horrible candidates.