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| Democrat Fratricide: Hillary = George Wallace! |
| 2008-05-12 |
| Jim Geraghty, National Review For Instapundit's old "Cats and dogs living together!" category: Joe Conason of Salon is comparing Hillary Clinton to "a reincarnation of the late George Wallace." UPDATE: On another racially-tense note in the Democratic primary, I saw that over at MyDD, after Obama won North Carolina with an overwhelming majority of the African-American vote, a commenter grumbled, "actually [African-American votes] should count less because they'll always vote for the Democrat. They are not a swing vote. We need to win other groups as well." The subsequent poster suggests three-fifths. ANOTHER UPDATE: Cokie Roberts plays the gender card: COKIE: Well, because what she was doing was describing what her vote was. And her description was 100 percent accurate. It’s become very difficult in this country to use words like "white." I must say, through this campaign I have found it interesting and disturbing that even though we are happily at a place in our history where it is not appropriate, and considered inappropriate, to say anything negative about race, it is apparently just fine to say things negative about sex. And we certainly saw that in the course of this campaign. Could Roberts be referring to the fact that over at AmericaBlog, they post pictures of Monica Lewinsky, jaw agape, when they object to comments from Hillary? (John, good idea. I was going to go with that concept in the general, but go ahead.) Meanwhile, liberal bloggers assess the subtle and complicated political dynamics of Democratic primary voters in West Virginia: Booman Tribune: "West Virginia isn't going to look beyond the color of John McCain and Barack Obama's skin to make up their minds about who they vote for. I know there are many fine people in West Virginia, just as there are everywhere. But I can't consider it a problem that Obama doesn't appeal to these voters." Liberal Values: "Hillbillies for Hillary... I'm not surprised that socially conservative areas are going to go for the socially conservative Clinton over the socially liberal Obama. Add racism and an area more prone than most to fall for the usual conservative scare tactics and lies and a Clinton landslide is inevitable." Oliver Willis: "'I want someone who is a full-blooded American as president.' Ah, there's West Virginia being exactly the West Virginia most of us think it is." Commenters at Huffington Post: "To bad [sic] for the people who live in WV and KY who are not racist and I know there are some, unfortunately they are outnumbered. These sates [sic] will be forever remembered as 'the racist states' -- I would move." "Even if there was no 'bittergate' or Jeremiah Wright , WV would not vote for a black man under any circumstances... Obama should not campaign in WV. It is not a safe place to be!" "Because they are mostly white trash. We all know it's true but we can not say it." Other liberal bloggers are starting to object to the portrayal of West Virginians as "Cletus the slack-jawed yokel" from the Simpsons. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #6 COUNTERTERRORISM BLOG > MEMRI > ISLAMIST FORUM MEMBER - BUSH TO BE TARGETED FOR ASSASSINATION [Sniper?] DURING VISIT TO SAUDI ARABIA??? |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-05-12 23:20 |
| #5 West Virginians racist? Definitely not, apart from certain laundry wearing Democrat Senators. |
| Posted by: Albert Thusong6840 2008-05-12 22:12 |
| #4 I went to the sites listed in the article, and man oh man are the Dems deep into fratricide! Obama supporters writing off ENTIRE states as "racist", Hillary supporters screaming about "sexism", but each and every one insisting that the Dem candidate will "absolutely win in November". What they don't seem to realize is that NO major party candidate can win simply by carrying their party; they MUST carry crossover and independent votes. Scorched earth punditry towards whole states is NOT a winning strategy for any candidate, and there is such a thing as a F*ck You vote in politics. Piss on enough voters long enough and they will remember from the Primary until the General Election and vote for your opponent to say "F*ck You!" |
| Posted by: Shieldwolf 2008-05-12 17:51 |
| #3 Liberalism is a party line. If you don't tow it and in the right way you are thrown out. Stalin and communism worked this way too and see where it got them. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2008-05-12 17:37 |
| #2 If they choose Hillary over BO, they are racists. If they choose BO over Hillary, they are sexists. If they choose someone else, they are BOTH racist AND sexist. The world must look awfully dreary through lenses that only show you race, class and gender. |
| Posted by: Grenter Protector of the Geats4975 2008-05-12 17:13 |
| #1 The so-called liberals are about the least liberal of any group. They try to impose their tyranny on everyone else. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2008-05-12 16:54 |