Krauthammer: Confederate Flag Had Nothing To Do with Massacre

KRAUTHAMMER: “I think they are on their way to extinction over time. I do think Wesley is exactly right that Nikki Haley has done everyone a favor in giving cover because the standard Republican position is it should be up to the people of South Carolina. She speaks for the state. The two senators, who are Republicans, have spoken for the state. So, everybody is covered. As a matter of policy, if I were a South Carolinian, I would do exactly as she did. I would have done it five years ago. It's a good thing that it's been done, but the other fact is, this is a totally irrelevance. This has nothing at all to do with what happened and had the flag not existed or not been on the grounds of the capitol, this massacre could have happened in any case, but it’s the standard liberal impulse. Something happened really bad, so there's got to be a problem and there has to be a solution. We must do something, even if the something is entirely irrelevant. Gun control being a second example here because had all the laws that Obama wanted had them passed, it would have made no difference whatsoever, but that's the instinct. Don't just stand there and do something. When Reagan advised don't just do something, stand there.”