Sun
Jul 25 2010
07:24 am
By: R. Neal
Republican Zach Wamp said Saturday that he wants to make clear he will not consider leaving the union if he's elected governor.
"I can promise you that if I'm governor we won't secede from the union. Period," Haslam said.
Guess they both just lost the teabagger vote. But seriously, this is what we've come to as a state - debating whether we should secede? This kind of stuff was funny at first. Then it was embarrassing. Now it's downright depressing. And one of these men will be your next governor.
OK, then.
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If there were some reason for
If there were some reason for that kind of talk it wouldn't be so embarrassing. Actually, I'd be thrilled to hear this sort of revolutionary rhetoric if it were directed against injustice, tyranny, corruption and treason. Instead, we've got misdirected outrage, incoherence and belligerence.
Karl Rove has taken us from manufactured consent to manufactured insanity. This is the Republican version of political correctness. A liar is not a liar if he's a Republican. Republicans have gotten so comfy in safe zones like Fox News where their political correctness is obeyed that they no longer participate in broader debates.
That this is even brought up
That this is even brought up as an issue tells you something about how debased that our discourse has become.