Recently, Republican Congressional candidate Stephen Broden...?

of the Dallas, Texas area, made waves when he said: "We have a constitutional remedy...And the Framers say if that don't work, revolution." (http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/lat... Liberal news outlets and blogs (MSNBS, Kos, etc.) were appalled!

What have other Americans said about armed rebellion?

Thomas Jefferson on the Shaysite Rebellion:

"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. .... It is a medicine necessary for the sound health of government. "

(http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/P/tj3/writings/brf/jefl6...

And elsewhere:

"God forbid we should ever be 20 years without such a rebellion. ... If they remain quiet under such misconceptions it is a lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. We have had 13. states independent 11. years. There has been one rebellion. That comes to one rebellion in a century & a half for each state. What country before ever existed a century & half without a rebellion? & what country can preserve it's liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms."

(http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/summer/letter.h...

More recently, unabashed Marxist domestic terrorist Bill Ayers of the Weathermen said:

“…We came to do material damage to pig Amerika and all that it’s about — its school-jails, its pig armies, its fat businessmen, and its greedy empire. We came to do it in the road—in the open—so that white Amerika could dig on the opening of the a new front, on the birth of a new brigade in the world liberation army. We came to attack—because we know that the only things to defend in honkie Amerika are the privileges—the cars, the apartments, the hotels, the TV’s,–that we’ve gained off the sweat of the people of the world. We came to vamp on those privileges and destroy the m—–f—– from the inside…

From here on it’s one battle after another… Pig Amerika—Beware: There’s an army growing right in your guts, and it’s going to help bring you down.”

And he remains a hero of the "Professional Left," as VP Biden called it, as well as personal friend of - - well, let's just say other people in high places.

So why was this statement from Broden so controversial? Is it only because he's a black Republican, and the Liberal Plantation thinks he's gotten too uppity?