Patriotism - go ahead, be prissy and try to stop it. - Granite Grok

Patriotism – go ahead, be prissy and try to stop it.

Update: Shades of Jim Bender! After I posted this last night, something was nagging me from the back of my mind – and he was it! At the Seacoast Republican Women’s debate, the NH CD-1 Congressional candidates had gone on first, and The Pledge was recited at that time. The Senatorial candidates came on stage later after the Congressional candidates had their debate. Jim, having missed the beginning of that debate, stood up and asked (in a manner of “er, something really important is missing here!”) of the moderator “Aren’t we going to say The Pledge??”. Kudos, once again, to Jim (hmm, gee, wasn’t that the event that he (playfully) called me a madman? Probably right, that….)
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Patriotism, love of country by the "every man".  The elites look down from their hoary perches, insulated by their Ivy League credentials, oh so dainty ways, and snobbish attitudes.  Joe Sixpack?  How mundane – those shows of actually liking what this country stands for – the NERVE of those people!

Certainly, the League of Women Voter moderator at this debate exhibited such a behavior.  The problem for her, and others like her, is that there are more of us than there are of her – and we are DONE listening.  The mood in the country of the truly tolerant folks in this country, the folks that actually make this country work and truly treasure its ideals, are no longer tolerating those that merely sniff at the notion of American Exceptionalism.

The original clip has been taken down – there there’s enough here to show that when TRUE AMERICAN folks feel insulted for their beliefs, they will absolutely ignore those that believe themselves to be "our betters".

It is said that the moderator was rather peevish afterwards (emphasis mine):

The woman from the LWV was upset. She said that the audience had disrespected her. She said she was “forced” to say the Pledge and that it had “obviously been planned”. As if we all decided in line to say the Pledge of Allegiance anyway if refused. I hadn’t even thought that the Pledge might not be said. This was a political candidate’s forum and the three candidates on stage were hoping to be elected to represent us in the Federal Government. Saying the Pledge of Allegiance at a political event in America should be a no-brainer.

Ask yourself – WHO is peeved that the Pledge is said?  What is the mindset of someone who claims she was FORCED to say something?  Egad, it’s little puppy time…

As Publius said at Big Government:

Something is brewing, people

(H/T: Big GovernmentMusing Minds via Don Surber)

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