GOP Rep: If American people dont vote our way, States may have to secede

[tmarket]

Extra, Extra, Rep. Zack Wamp recants secession talk, chalked it up to crazy talk ploy; just look at those eyes.

Rep. Zack Wamp (R-Tenn.) is backing away from earlier remarks suggesting that states could secede over objections to federal policies.

Wamp, a Chattanooga congressman, raised the specter of secession in an interview with Hotline on Call. Wamp, talking tough, claimed: "I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government."

Wamp is currently running for Governor of Tennessee. His opponents for the GOP nomination, Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam and state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey, were quick to criticize his over the top statement.

On Saturday Wamp recanted his wild eyed rhetoric. Wamp told reporters at a campaign stop that: "Of course we will not secede from the union. But we will also not have a governor who will cave in to Barack Obama."

Wamp seems to be taking a cue from Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R). Perry played the crazy card by raising the specter of session in 2009 at a Tea Party rally. Many believe that Perry, by playing the crazy card and raising the specter of secession, gained serious traction with Southern conservatives.

Yet playing the crazy card has risks. There is a fine line between red meat populism and Tea Party crazy. Wamp is dancing on that line with his back and forth anti-Obama secession tough talk.

Tennessee Republicans will have the final say on Wamp and his brand of crazy, silly, hot headed rhetoric.

 

[AAAintheBeltway]

So it's "crazy" for a public official to contemplate secession, but it's totally ok for a socialist president to run up a $1 +trillion deficit, force radical laws like Obama-care on the country even though a majority oppose it and talk openly of refusing to protect the southern border to force republicans to accept amnesty? Don't talk to me about democracy because the democrats clearly are planning to subvert it by legalizing 20 million illegal aliens. Their control of congress now rests on illegal voting by felons in Minnesota, widespread vote fraud and organized bloc voting by illegals.

There is no reason secession has to lead to war. The former Soviet Union was split up by liberal hero Gorbachov without undue violence. Bill Clinton and his administration supported breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the subsequent illegal secession from Serbia of Kosovo.

 

[MohdSalleh]

Quote from hermit:

Rep. Zach Wamp (R-TN), who is running in a heated three-way Republican primary for governor of Tennessee, has a dire warning about the new health care reform law: If a new Congress and president aren't elected in order to repeal the bill, states might just have to secede.

"I hope that the American people will go to the ballot box in 2010 and 2012 so that states are not forced to consider separation from this government," said Wamp, who has also promised to refuse to implement the law at the state level if he is elected, in an interview with the Hotline.

Wamp also praised Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) -- who has also floated the idea of secession -- for leading the fight against the health care bill. "Patriots like Rick Perry have talked about these issues because the federal government is putting us in an untenable position at the state level," said Wamp.

The Hotline asked Wamp's GOP primary opponents whether they are opposed to secession. A spokesman for Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam answered, "Yeah," while Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey blasted "Rep. Wamp's trademark over-the-top temperament and overheated, sometimes crazy rhetoric."

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It's all garbage. You can talk about American freedom, state rights, secession is a constitutional right, guaranteed by founding fathers yadda yadda etc, but any attempt to challenge federal power will meet with the same result that Tibet secessionists had with central chinese government authorities. You will be brutally crushed and history has proven this.
What rights? the only right belongs to the guy who has the monopoly on violent means.
This is also not the era where you can win a war with your hunting rifle either,federal forces will napalm your ass with precision guided weaponry.

 

[Larson]

Quote from MohdSalleh:

It's all garbage. You can talk about American freedom, state rights, secession is a constitutional right, guaranteed by founding fathers yadda yadda etc, but any attempt to challenge federal power will meet with the same result that Tibet secessionists had with central chinese government authorities. You will be brutally crushed and history has proven this.
What rights? the only right belongs to the guy who has the monopoly on violent means.
This is also not the era where you can win a war with your hunting rifle either,federal forces will napalm your ass with precision guided weaponry.

This scenario would most likely end the US as we know it as some soldier's families die in collateral damage. You are counting on soldiers turning their arms on fellow Americans. Not likely to go over very well. This ain't f@&8! China!