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Matthews Claims GOP Longs to Return to Pre-Civil War Days

Raise your hand if you‘re a conservative who’s been accused of wanting to bring back slavery. It’s an absurd claim/assumption and I’m pretty sick of hearing it from disgruntled libs.

But Virginia‘s Republican Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli stayed surprisingly cool Thursday as MSNBC host Chris Matthews characterized conservatives’ support for a possible repeal of a Constitutional amendment as support for slavery and segregation.

Once Cuccinelli explained that the proposed repeal was just an “attempt to bring back the balance of authority between the federal government and what goes on in the states,“ the MSNBC host continued ”dramatically” overstate his false assumptions, suggesting the separatist attorney general wanted to take America back to the Antebellum era (h/t Newsbusters):

Matthews: You know who’s gonna like this? The old Johnny Rebs are gonna love it. This is, this is Antebellum. It just, it seems to me, you don’t really feel yourself 100 percent a citizen of the country. You like to feel yourself a little more a citizen of Virginia, like Virginia is like somehow a different country. Or these states are all different countries.”

Comments (8)

  • UnreconstructedLibertarian
    Posted on December 11, 2010 at 6:54am

    Chris Matthews fails to recognize his view is also very Antebellum and does perfectly demonstrate the political rip that led the South to seek its Independence.

    Perhaps I’m the only one who noticed, but Matthew’s position is that only the most populated areas are worthy of setting national policy. Democratic Tyranny, which was Jefferson and Madison’s argument against a pure Democracy. Two wolves and a sheep voting on what’s for dinner. This little clip does much to show why a Constitutional Republic of States is more effective and harmonious than a gargantuan Democratic Nation.

    Matthew’s further alludes to rural areas being unfit to govern themselves compared to the superior intellect of the urban Burgeois. Very, very antebellum thought. While he watches the nation turn geographicly red, he fears that the current control of highly populated progressive enclaves will diminish in the Senate, and will likely be gone in 2012.

    I want to caution those who would equate antebellum Democrats with modern Democrats. A review of antebellum Democrats would prove to be uber conservatism and Jeffersonian ideal. The antebellum Republicans were orginally disenfranchised Henry Clay-esque Whigs and were Hamiltonian progressives. Lincoln being the chief of such “central planning authority” thought as Matthews spews in this interview. For modern, Jeffersonian conservative-Republicans, drawing a line of decendency from Lincoln is self-defeating. There was a complete 180 degree flip in party idealogy between Theodore Roosevelt (a Republican Progressive) and Woodrow Wilson (a Democratic Progressive). The parties effectively swapped platforms in the 20th century, which is the basic idealogy we live with today.

    Lincoln and Wilson have more governmental idealogy in common than Lincoln and Reagan. Try as you may, you won’t prove me wrong on that.

    If Texas does declare its indpendence when asked to bail out California, Illinois, and New Jersey: that grand old Republic will have some familiar compatriots following suit for the same reasons they were once linked in a common struggle for Independence. We are are on the verge of repeating history for the exact same reasons: reasons we’ve never fully come to terms with. I sincerely hope we do come to terms with the virtues of a Constitutional Republic as our Founders envisioned and restore it. That’s the only remedy to save us the inevitible split coming if we continue toward a Tyrannical Democracy. A Tyrannical Socialistic Democracy to be exact.

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    • UnreconstructedLibertarian
      Posted on December 11, 2010 at 10:18am

      The clip as shown here was abbreviated, so I hunted it down elsewhere to view.

      The Virginia proposed Constitutional amendment was the orginal topic for the Matthews spot. An Amendment that would provide States the authority to override a Federal law by 2/3 majority. Meaning the States could challenge a Federal Act and prevent its implementation.

      This was the function of the Senate prior to the 17th Amendment. The Senate was the “States’s House” in the legislature. Now its another layer of Democratic control that by-passes the interests of the States and reserves power solely to the Federal Government. In fact, passage of the Virginia Amendment would make it possible to overturn the 17th, making the Virginia Amendment not as necessary but a very good check on the overreach of the Federal Government.

      Cuccinelli is correct on all points. I particularly appreciate Matthews recognizing that this issue does make us “Johnny Rebs” happy, as it should anyone in this nation that truly loves the founding principles of our Constitution.

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  • Vox Populi
    Posted on December 10, 2010 at 10:29pm

    So a guy that worked for Tip O’neil (one of the most partisan speakers of the house – ever), pretending to be a completely impartial, and non-biased “journalist” – impunes the character of his life-long opposition….

    …and we’re supposed to be shocked?

    Sorry, Chris…the thrill is gone.

    I see you.

    Vox

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  • Lonescrapper
    Posted on December 10, 2010 at 10:07pm

    Wasn’t the Antebellum South filled with Democrats?

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  • wash1776
    Posted on December 10, 2010 at 9:40pm

    This MORON JUST CAN’T SEEM TO SHUT HIS BIG MOUTH. He constantly MAKES THE MOST ASSININE STATEMENTS~

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  • roostercogburn
    Posted on December 10, 2010 at 9:23pm

    Why is softball clown chris still on the air? Ever wonder, when you listen to a libritard they spend so much time telling you how smart they are, then they open their mouths and say ignorant stuff like this. I bet what he really ment to say was how the democrats longed for the return of the day’s when they could put on their beautiful white KKK robes out in the open, not like now when they have to do it behind closed doors.

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  • BigBear2k
    Posted on December 10, 2010 at 8:42pm

    I suppose this will sound uppity to someone like Chris, but I live in Texas…. and Texas WAS a whole other country before we joined the union. Texans are not like New Yorkers and New Yorkers are not like Alaskans and Alaskans are not like Georgians. We have different cultures and different ideas about what government should be about – that’s why our founders formed the limited federal government that they did. He always makes such uninformed and hateful remarks that point out his condescention loud and clear……

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    • WVdad
      Posted on December 10, 2010 at 11:39pm

      This guy is so full of it, he know this has nothing to do with the civil war, its all about state who wont go along with obamacare, so he wants to scare his listeners into believing this crap, get them up in arms

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