Jennifer Rubin Calls Out GOP Candidates Who 'Flunked the Flag Test'

"Many who seek to lead the party and country in a divisive time showed they are just not up to the task."

While much of the coverage of the GOP candidates’ positions on the confederate flag followed in the horse race tradition, focusing on the political expediency and strategies behind adopting yea or nay stances or merely noting each candidate’s view, criticism of the positions themselves was harder to come by.

One of the sources of that sparse criticism came, surprisingly, from conservative Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin, who was very clear on what should happen to the confederate flag still anchored at the State House in South Carolina.

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