‘Party trumps race’ for Steele foes
Trying to comment on this is like starting to clean up a trailer park after a tornado – hard to know where to start there is such an abundance of disorder present – mental disorder in the case of the MD Donks. (As Michael Savage’s book title states: Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.)
By way of background – the Donks are yammering about Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, who is running as an unashamedly conservative Republican. As if THAT isn’t bad enough to them – he also happens to be black.
Lt.Gov. Steele
The response is even more rabid than the Chief would have expected, even from the Donks:
Black Democratic leaders in Maryland say that racially tinged attacks against Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele in his bid for the U.S. Senate are fair because he is a conservative Republican.
Ooops! There goes Dr. Kings dream! (The bit about judging on the basis of character, not skin color.)
Such attacks against the first black man to win a statewide election in Maryland include pelting him with Oreo cookies during a campaign appearance, calling him an “Uncle Tom” and depicting him as a black-faced minstrel on a liberal Web log.
State Sen. Lisa A. Gladden, a black Baltimore Democrat, said she does not expect her party to pull any punches, including racial jabs at Mr. Steele, in the race to replace retiring Democratic U.S. Sen. Paul S. Sarbanes. “Party trumps race, especially on the national level,” she said. “If you are bold enough to run, you have to take whatever the voters are going to give you. It’s democracy, perhaps at its worse, but it is democracy.”
We have a new Donk standard for campaign behavior: “democracy at it’s worst”! Oh, yeah – I suppose the only thing new about that is that it is now openly stated.
Delegate Salima Siler Marriott, a black Baltimore Democrat, said Mr. Steele invites comparisons to a slave who loves his cruel master or a cookie that is black on the outside and white inside because his conservative political philosophy is, in her view, anti-black. “Because he is a conservative, he is different than most public blacks, and he is different than most people in our community,” she said. “His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people.”
Hmmmm. One is not supposed to run for office if one is “different from most people” in the community? Then if the reciprocal of this is applied, then should blacks be banned from seeking office in white communities? Attention David Duke: you have some new allies!
That final bit is good too: “His politics are not in the best interest of the masses of black people.” So then keeping the black people dependent on the bureaucracy of the welfare state for generation after generation IS in the “best interest of the masses of black people” Apparently so, especially as long as they are content not to get uppity and independent enough to leave the Democratic Party’s political plantation.