During the chilly late afternoon of January 5, 1781, Virginia Governor Thomas Jefferson stood helpless at his vantage point in Manchester as he watched warehouses and workshops in Richmond burn. Traitorous General Benedict Arnold, who hadn’t received a satisfactory response to his demand for the surrender of the one-year-old capital of Virginia, was torching the town.It helps to recall the traitor Arnold when the other side trots out some former military man to use as a prop, as if that should trump reason. Bravery is admirable, but it does not excuse bad motives.
Saturday, January 05, 2008
This Day in History: January 5
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But much like our present day NRA in the post above, Arnold did maintain his relationship and capital with our enemies. So we should consider him one of our allies, right?
Marshall Pétain, maybe-- he sold his people out to another. But Arnold? He was a lot less of a traitor than the majority of 2008 presidential candidates.
What good is support of gun rights if you then invite millions who care little for such rights and, by their own admission, cannot be trusted with them? I'm thinking of McCain and Huckabee, but Paul himself is somewhat squishy on the legal side, too.
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