Haley Barbour knew exactly what he was saying and it had a specific intended effect. You see back in the times of slavery, the plantation Overseers would use all sorts of punishment to put any sort of uprising down. Those slaves who did not comply and rebelled were, along with whippings, branded like cattle to remind them they were nothing more than property. This imagery is conjured up any time anyone challenges white male authority (in the case of the President, his mere existence does for them) as a means to inform one of their "place" and to not be an uppity negro.



While it may be easy to put this in the category of just another knuckledragger letting their true feelings be known, do not walk down that path. The rhetoric on the Right is increasingly becoming traitorous to this very public. They wish to incite the dumb masses that they control in to a rebellious furor in same way their aristocratic ancestors did 150 years ago.



Everyone here should be ready to vote to keep this Republic free, but be willing to lay down their self in order to protect this Republic. I very much hope for a peaceful resolution to this challenge, but I'm ready for the latter.