Breaking at Salon, it turns out that Rick Perry(Texas Gov.) is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Perry, infamous for alluding to seccession at one of the early tea party ralies, has been on the hot-list lately in GOP politics at a time which the field is seen as largely-lacking.
From Salon and their breaking piece;
A 1998 voting guide published by a leading neo-Confederate group and obtained by Salon not only endorses Perry for lieutenant governor but also describes him as "a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans."
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Visitors to the Sons of Confederate Veterans website are confronted by a video of a man in a gray uniform who proclaims, "One hundred and fifty years ago the men of the South left our homes and families to protect them from an illegal invasion and to fight for the rights our states held under the Constitution." He continues: "Too many in your time want to tell lies about us and the reasons we went to war. We fought for you. It is now your turn to stand up to the South."
The U.S. federal government is described by the group as "an empire", but not for adventures and misadventures abroad; but for their presence in the south. The League of the South was also strongly-behind him and in fact have endorsed Perry in yeaes past.
Its core beliefs include the abolition of the income tax and central banking, a Southern republic that "revives the use of State Militias in place of maintaining large, standing armies," and a society that "perpetuates the chivalric ideal of manhood." The group rejects "the American Empire that now occupies the South."
This shouldn't be surprising, but really, is this the guy so many in the GOP are pinning their hopes on? And I'm not getting into that recent-execution bit...