State's Rights

I can't say I'm surprised to see that Mike Huckabee's a defender of the iconography of slavery and white supremacy but I hadn't known for sure previously:

“You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.

“In fact,” he said, “if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we’d tell them what to do with the pole; that’s what we’d do.”

We'll recall George Wallace's pledge to get rid of "every freedom rider, sit in, and every other trouble-maker backed by the NAACP that meddles in our affairs." Robert Farley wonders how flag pole ramming fits into Huckabee's vision of bible-centric ethics. "What if it's done for fun, and not for punishment?"