What Happened to the Patriotism of the GOP?
In 2002, as I put in my time at the Democratic Party tent for Alex Sanders and Jim Hodges at a local festival in Winnsboro, an elderly man walked up to me and told me that the flag that was hanging from the tent was the “Republican flag” and he was shocked that it was hanging from our Democratic tent. That flag was the American flag. Needless to say, I was ticked off, and had that man been forty years younger, I would have told him what I thought of the comment he had made. Instead, I followed the rule I was taught by my parents, and I respected my elder in that situation.
Do you remember those times? The Republicans were running around buying up everything red, white and blue, and rocking out to the Toby Keith lyrics of “we’ll put a boot in your ass, that’s the American way…”? They had the momentum, and I never thought we would see the end of the Republican domination we witnessed in 2002. However, you can only put your boot in so many people’s ass before they get tired of you, and after four years, the Democrats were regaining power, finally winning the White House in 2008.
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