It should be a corollary of Murphy’s Law that nothing is ever as simple, as cut and dried, as it initially looks.
Consider the aftermath of the recent mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina. No sooner had the virtual ink on the online accounts of the killings by a crazed white supremacist dried than the liberal “brain trust” was out in force calling for action:
The terrorist Confederate flag still flies proudly @ the SouthCarolina State Capitol. Somebody needs 2 tear that flag down now. Today. TODAY
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) June 19, 2015
The idea that a 150-year-old flag could have precipitated murder is preposterous. Nevertheless, the Stars and Bars does conjure up unsettling reminders of a period when states within the country, to its great shame, countenanced slavery. Accordingly, conservatives, beginning with South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, embraced the purely symbolic gesture of removing the flag from government venues.
Instantly, a crusade to rid the nation of other vestiges of its sinful past was afoot. Unfortunately, for the left, one of the victims of this wholesale house cleaning is one its own: presidential hopeful Martin O’Malley, who as Maryland governor presided for eight years over a state whose official song — “Maryland, My Maryland” — expresses Confederate sympathies:
The song, with lyrics dating to the beginning of the Civil War, contains a plea for Maryland, a border state, to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy. In some verses rarely performed these days, President Abraham Lincoln is referred to as “the despot” and “the tyrant,” while the Union is called “Northern scum.”
O’Malley has been trailing far back in the polling, making any “‘splaining” he has to do a relatively minor concern for the Democratic Party.
Ironically for O’Malley, his voice was among the loudest clamoring for Haley to “tear that flag down” in South Carolina.
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