Posted on 01/27/2005 9:17:06 AM PST by Kaslin
IT'S not just Republicans who are livid at how Democrats have ripped into Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — so are plenty of black Democrats, who say their party now risks alienating its most loyal supporters. It doesn't help that Howard Dean — front-runner to be the new Democratic national chairman — cheered the anti-Rice crowd. Dean, after all, had to apologize last year for vowing to court guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks.
Nor does it help that Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), who voted for Rice, nevertheless used the battle to send out a fund-raising e-mail for Senate Democrats featuring Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), who called Rice a liar.
The Dem attack on Rice was "very foolish" and "potentially costly" because it could backfire among blacks, said Democratic pollster Ron Lester, an expert on the African-American vote.
"A lot of African-Americans are watching this and they're wondering why [Democrats] are going after her so hard. She has an exemplary record. She's probably better qualified than most secretaries of state that we have had."
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
Another high-profile black Democrat was even more blunt, saying the attacks on Rice — featuring ex-Ku Klux Klan "kleagle" Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.) — "made me sick to my stomach."
I think this says it all
No prob, they will remain on the socialist plantation. There are too many of them not willing to try to make it alone in this world. They need the democrats to hold their hands. Plenty of whites in the same boat, living on the same well fare plantation. Not just restricted to blacks.
It's about time.
YEEEAAAHHHHHH!!!!!
Ah, the backlash cometh. Democrats really didn't think it through when they decided to verbally flog Condoleezza Rice for partisan political purposes.
`` featuring ex-Ku Klux Klan "kleagle" Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)``
Once a Klansmen, always a Klansmen. Sure he put a little lilac water on his record, but this is just window dressing. The man is still a bigot and a racist.
Too funny how the mainstream press hardly if ever brings up the fact that Byrd is/was a member of the Klan.
Juan Williams discussed this on Fox with Brit Hume last night. For once he made sense.
Don't worry, blacks will still vote 90%+ for the next democrat...
ah, but will they figure it out about the DNC this time, that is my question.
Can somebody please tell me what a "kleagle" is? Is it some kind of rank??
They thought it through but their Bush-hate/mental illness is so far off the scale that they couldn't help themselves. I love watching them destroy themselves. Each episode like this will alienate about 10,000 black voters, IMO.
yeah.
grand wizard, grand dragon, kleagle - all silly grandiosities adopted by the bedsheet-wetters -er- WEARERS
Unless Condi's on the ticket. Blood is thicker than water, and Dims attacking their fellow blacks won't help.
The Dem base continues to erode. This issue has prompted black Dems take a good hard look at their party, which in and of itself is significant.
bttt
I wish people who deserved to be grilled -- like Jesse Jackson or Louis Farrakhan -- would get it. Not people like Dr. Rice. It's a backwards world sometimes.
Juan is struggling with his origins - support the Dims not matter what. Recently he has had an attitude adjustment and is beginning to sound normal.
The dems are in total meltdown.
Pelosi, Dean, Gore, Clinton, Kerry, Boxer, Byrd, Ken..(hic)..nedy.
The defining voices of the democratic party.
What more could we ask for?
Synthesised voice of computer (to Dims): "You have two years until self destruct. Repeat: Self destruct has been activated. Two years until complete self destruction."
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