Running Low on Tea? Pass The Moonshine!

     The last two presidential candidates were too moderate to appeal to the God, Guts, and Guns set, while their choices in running mates was, (How can I say this?) uninspired. So now, in the wake of defeat, many of the well-balanced, intellectual banjo-wielding voters who make up the right wing of the GOP have decided to take the most rational, logical step and advocate secession. Of course, the point that a state may not secede was established a few years ago in a wholly insignificant affray that resulted in the deaths of over half a million people. This was not a well-reported event, few papers picked up the story, and I understand why those advocating secession now might have missed it.

      During the campaign, a colleague was receiving emails from someone associated with the GOP urging him to vote for right-wing ideas. After the election, he received another email from the same source. Addressed  “Dear Fellow Republicans, Conservatives, Constitutionalists, and other Patriotic Americans," the message was, not surprisingly, critical of Mr. Obama's ideas about health care, urged readers to join a neo-confederate organization called the League of The South, and ended with, "The Conservative Movement is dead. Let the Secession Movement begin!" 

      I first heard of the League of the South a decade ago and had hoped it was only a passing bit of random lunacy. It saddens me to think that this brand of Neanderthal is still among us. The organization is in a few states now and bears watching. For now at least, it is safe to say that the Republican Party is one in crisis and those among them who try to make a reasoned argument for small government and less tax are being drowned out by the radicals. Is this secession idea what happens to members of Tea party, when their music stops?

    



League of The South Pushes Separatist Views
http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/091001/met_7240080.html


Southern Poverty Law Center Information on the League of The South
http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/groups/league-of-the-south