WASHINGTON POST: …After the racially motivated Charleston shootings this week and a Supreme Court case regarding the flag, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) is facingpressure to take down the flag, which is still flying high at a Confederate War memorial on state house grounds. She hasn’t heeded the calls, and her staff says it’s up to the general assembly. Her fellow South Carolinian and GOP presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham, meanwhile, defended the flag flying in his home state by telling CNN on Friday that it is “part of who we are.”
Not every Republican agrees. Mitt Romney, who has opposed the flag before, issued another well-circulated call to take it down on Saturday…
In 2000, then-presidential candidate George W. Bush said it’s up to each state to decide. That was “an acceptable stance to pro-flag groups at the time,” the Washington Times reported. (Also, Bush won the nomination and became president.)… (more)
