It's over. You lost. Learn to accept progress.
The Marion County Republicans' Independence Day parade float had three Confederate flags on it. No,
not that Marion County. This one is in
Iowa.
Pleasantville Republican Owen Golay, who owns the truck with his wife, Linda Golay, told The Des Moines Register that he counts both Union and Confederate soldiers among his ancestors. He said he hoisted the three flags above his truck to make a statement: Confederate soldiers are veterans, too.
"This was my whole point with this whole exercise: to represent a segment of American veterans that are being buried in history, three of which are buried in Marion County," he said.
It's time for Owen Golay to grown up and be a big boy with big boy pants on. Even Iowa's Republican Party chairman thinks Owen is full of shit:
But Jeff Kaufmann, chairman of the Republican Party of Iowa, doesn't buy it. "He was making a political statement, a statement that was in opposition to what the GOP and the party of Lincoln stands for," Kaufmann said in an interview. "That, to me, doesn't pass muster."
Owen and his lovely wife Linda have since resigned over the fiasco. However, the Marion County Republican co-chairs have really
showed their colors here:
Marion County Republican Co-chairwoman T. Waldmann-Williams said the couple who own the truck, Owen Golay and Linda Golay of Pleasantville, who are members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans organization, have resigned from the party’s central committee.
Waldmann-Williams said she spoke with Owen Golay about the flags because she disagreed with their display on the parade float. But she decided it was within his free speech rights to make a statement, “which is why I did not ask him to take them down.”
Free speech. Yeah. That was your Republican Party's float. Not an "affiliated float." What say you other co-chairfellow, Ed Bull?
Bull said that, “I’m the first person to say everyone is entitled to freedom of speech, but I do think we need to do recognize that flag on one hand demonstrates pride of the individual who believes in it but is a hurtful message to thousands of individuals who equate that with slavery.”
Let's say
hundreds of millions instead of
thousands and you might begin to understand what the hullabaloo is all about. It's the FOURTH OF JULY, not the I'm A Racist Crybaby Day—that day will be reserved for November 9, 2016 (wink).