More Muddle in Their Political Puddle (3-11-2008)

I’m Jerry Burk, and I approved this message…

It’s three am, and your children are safe and asleep (supposedly), but there’s a phone in the White House (one that Hillary hasn’t thrown yet). It’s ringing (incessantly, apparently nobody’s home). Something is happening in the world (Bill’s on the prowl again). But votes will decide who answers (but only those of the super-delegates count). Who should answer that call? (Are the Ghostbusters still available?)

Well, there’s the honky female or someone who “ain’t done his spadework!”

What candidate would dare using race to win? Bill Clinton compared Obama to Jesse Jackson in South Carolina. Hillary stated that Obama hasn’t done the “spadework.” These not so subtle, “melanin-illy challenged” reminders have backfired to where Hillary is now the “Republican” of the Democrat Party. She’s getting less than 10% of the black vote.

And in classic Democrat style, Obama got voting extended in Cayuga County’s black precincts without any evidence of voter suppression. On Fox News Bob Bechtel, Democrat strategist, admitted that Cayuga comes in last and often asks, “How many votes do you need?” While he may have been joking, in the end Cayuga couldn’t change Ohio’s results no matter how many votes they fudged.

Democrats claim conservatives are racists, but this is just a case of what psychologists call projection, assuming character traits in others that one has in oneself. Pennsylvania’s Governor Ed Rendell, an ardent Hillary supporter, said, “You’ve got conservative whites here, and I think there are some whites who are probably not ready to vote for an African-American candidate.”

For example, a Democrat friend of mine, who just happens to be in the “Quacker” state, recently called me while I was taking a train to Washington, DC. Right before he called, the conductor accidentally took my return ticket to Lynchburg. While still on the phone, I discovered the error. I informed the conductor of the mistake, and she promptly corrected the problem. Afterwards my friend asked, “She’s black, right?”

I responded, “I’m not going to answer that!” What difference does the race of the conductor make? Unfortunately, my friend is racially prejudiced, but he’s a proud Democrat, so he feels it’s vindicated: Not reality, liberal “Feel-ality”

Yet, if a Republican makes an off color gaffe, the biased press will pound him with it repetitively. For instance, Senator George Allen (R-VA) used the word “macaca” accidentally in reference to a man from India, and the media practically put him in a white sheet straightjacket. They ended his political career and any chance for the presidency. Otherwise, Allen would have been that great, conservative candidate found lacking in the 2008 race.

That’s why John McCain avoids laughing at supporters’ jokes of his opponents. He’s trying to give the media nothing to cling to. Because if McCain laughs at Hillary, he’ll be the male chauvinist pig who only stops beating his wife long enough to give a speech on revoking women’s suffrage. If he impugns Obama, he’ll be the hitchhiking Klansman thumbing his way to the next cross burning. The media has become one profession more vile than the trial lawyers.

Hillary and Obama are so electorally entangled that they’ll probably both be on the ticket. It’s just a matter of who’s on top (no sexual innuendo intended here). But, the animosity between them could be so great because each of their egos is so big that neither is willing to be nice and accept being just the vice. Still, McCain is smart to avoid angering Democrats thus giving them less reason to unite against the rotten Republican.

And an intractable divide could occur if either is disenfranchised from the ticket. Femi-Nazis would fling bras at passer-bys at the DNC convention. There’s even a group called “Recreate 68” that is planning to march (riot more likely). The DNC convention could actually be more interesting outside than what’s happening inside.

Democrats have only themselves to blame for a process that’s become a quagmire. Most states divided their delegates such that even with a lopsided victory, both candidates got roughly the same number. Obviously, their process was based on liberalism’s “Nobody should ever lose” philosophy. Unfortunately, nobody wins either.

Since there’s no policy difference between Hillary and Obama and each is equally unqualified to be president, if Democrats nominate Hillary, they must be racists. Conversely, in nominating Obama, Democrats are misogynists, either way victims of their own group identity politics.

Still, Democrats will swoon over such diversity: male/female, black/white, yin/yang. Oh my, it’s hard not to get excited here. But Democrats have achieved with their super-delegates exactly what they deserve: a nomination process that basically ignores their electorate. From Iowa to Porto Rico, millions of votes were cast, but in the end they never really mattered.