So basically Jim Webb is to the right of the Republican Party on the place of the Confederate flag in public and official situations. Terrific.
Maybe - and I know this is just ing crazy!!! - if people who are to the left of or at the least even with the Republican Party on EVERYTHING else (Wallace, the old Southern Democrats, Webb, etc.) support something like the Confederate flag or oppose something like civil rights ... We should stop referring to such stances as "conservative"?!
I mean, let's be real: you're all simply taking historical things that everyone agrees is good (or will someday in the case of the flag removal) and assigning the label "liberal" on those things and defining opposition to the "good" stance as "conservative." Nothing like reaffirming your own ideology to yourself, LOL...
The definition of conservative involves holding to traditional attitudes and values and being averse to change. Clinging to traditional institutions - like the rebel flag or Jim Crow - is by definition a conservative stance. It's not necessarily a Republican one, but by definition it is conservatism.
