Head Of The Republican Comittee

Think Progress:  The head of the Mon Valley Republican Committee in Pennsylvania is facing backlash from his local community after displaying an American flag upside down — a statement usually meant as a distress signal by soldiers in times of war — during President Obama’s second inauguration ceremony. The flag was placed outside the Mon Valley Republican Party’s meeting spot on the main road in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

Brent Kovac, the head of the local Republican chapter, spoke to local TV news station WPXI:  Channel 11′s Julie Fine talked to the man behind the flag. He said that he doesn’t “regret it at all” because “our nation is in a horrible place.”

Yes Obama's speech was heavy on things like equality, voting rights, and equal opportunity, things Republicans don't like and actively work against.  But usually when a Republican wants to express his displeasure with the American ideal he or she flies the Confederate flag.  We're not sure if this is better or worse than that, but the fact of the matter is the more Republican somebody is the more hostility they tend to show toward the United States and the more they seem to wish the Confederacy had won the civil war.  It's really quite dangerous to let them serve in government.