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North Carolina GOP called Kaine “shameful� for pin honoring his Marine son | McClatchy DC
Full blown flag-o-philia is on for the GOP. What's most important about this is that these super pro-Americans can't identify what I can only assume is a regularly seen pin in their state. The people who did this, after all, are NCs GOP. With 10s of thousands of army members and military families in NC, I would assume that this pin is somewhat of a fixture in NC social gatherings.
I guess they either thought it was the Honduran flag and tried to score some quick points with the xenophobes, or they really had no clue what this was and went with the first flag they thought looked like it.
When Democratic vice presidential nominee Sen. Tim Kaine addressed the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia Wednesday night, the North Carolina GOP thought it quickly spotted something wrong.
“[Tim Kaine] wears a Honduras flag pin on his jacket but no American flag,” the state party tweeted as he was speaking. “Shameful.”
There was one problem: Kaine’s pin, which had a single blue star on a white background bordered with red, wasn’t the flag of Honduras, where he spent a year as a missionary decades ago. It was the symbol for Blue Star Families, or those with members serving in the military.
Full blown flag-o-philia is on for the GOP. What's most important about this is that these super pro-Americans can't identify what I can only assume is a regularly seen pin in their state. The people who did this, after all, are NCs GOP. With 10s of thousands of army members and military families in NC, I would assume that this pin is somewhat of a fixture in NC social gatherings.
I guess they either thought it was the Honduran flag and tried to score some quick points with the xenophobes, or they really had no clue what this was and went with the first flag they thought looked like it.