Broken eggheads make no omelets

The Washington Times ^ | 5-9-08 | Wes Pruden

[JZelle]

The Democrats invented race-baiting, making it a staple of campaigning for nearly a century. (The Republicans gave us a civil war.) Now race politics is back, and this time everyone gets to play.

With Hillary dead and gone without even a decent wake, most of the punditry is busy with the fatwa, decreeing beheading with a dull knife for anyone who says irreverent things about Barack Obama.

Hillary Clinton, who suddenly couldn't push a crippled child's wheelchair across a busy street without taking severe criticism for how she did it, learned yesterday that she broke the brass rule of American politics, that "race," except for meaningless and insincere platitudes, is the great unmentionable.

"I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on," she told USA Today. "The Associated Press found how Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There's a pattern here." Note how careful the lady was in even saying that much, all but tripping over the word "white."

Paul Begala, one of her trusted spinmeisters, was a shade blunter: "Obama can't win with just the eggheads and African-Americans. That's the Dukakis coalition. He carried 10 states." His opposite in the CNN spin room, Donna Brazile, retorted that it was such notions that divide Democrats. "Go sit with Bill Bennett," she told him (presumably in the back of a bus).

[Red Badger]

That's the Dukakis coalition.

That statement is probably what po'ed her more than anything about race itself.................

[Dilbert San Diego]

Wait a minute!!! Remember how Hillary said that Republicans ran Congress “like a plantation” to that African-American group, and said “you all know what I’m talkin’ ‘bout”????? I thought she had a great affinity with the African American community. She can read an audience, and knows that today’s African-American city dwellers must remember all about life on the plantation down South over 150 years ago.

[chris_bdba]

It’s hilarious to me that the one time the Clinton crew tells the truth and no one will listen!

[Red Badger]

I ain’t in no ways tired..... of this election cycle.......

[Dilbert San Diego]

ya, that was funny too, when she said she didn’t feel no ways tired.

Imagine if a Republican had mocked a black accent in that way that Hillary did, can you imagine the reaction?

[LZ_Bayonet]

Obama hasn't played the race card, because he doesn't want to get accused of "playing the race card" (others do, and will do, it for him).

But, that didn't stop the Clintons from playing it.

Rush always said that Republicans would never be able to do this, and he's right. But I never heard him say the Clintons would never be able to do it.

A couple of quotes for Rush:

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies."
Napoleon Bonaparte

[junta]

Years ago some effite elite lib wrote that the GOP coalition depended on a bloc of voters that were poorly educated and easily lead to vote enbloc, could that be said of Obama’s?

[mrsmel]

"race," except for meaningless and insincere platitudes

Nothing truer on this subject was ever said.

[windsorknot]

Donna, go “sit with” Michelle and compare the chips on your shoulders.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Years ago some effete elite lib wrote that the GOP coalition depended on a bloc of voters that were poorly educated and easily lead to vote enbloc, could that be said of Obama’s?

Especially the college professors . . .

The Democrat coalition is one of followers and leaders in distinct groups:

• Blue collar and no collar followers willing to allow themselves to be patronized, and

• Snobs who want to patronize others.

The Republican Party is the party of the middle class, and its function should be to protect the middle class from the envy of the former and the patronizing and second guessing of the latter. In the 1996 VP debate against Al Gore Jack Kemp failed to do that - and it instantly destroyed the stature he had earned as an important national Republican figure. He went from hero to zero in a matter of minutes. A black day; I had high hopes for the man.

[Rick.Donaldson]

WHAT?!?!?!?!

Obama is black? I thought Hillary and Bill were an interracial couple... everyone keeps saying how Bill was the first black president.

I’m confused

[junta]

Kemp crumbled before the submission word “racist” and it destroyed him utterly and completely.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Kemp crumbled before the submission word “racist” and it destroyed him utterly and completely.

Kemp was often the only Republican who showed up at black conventions. There was no case that Kemp was racist - so Gore took the opposite tack and basically said, "It's nice that you're not a racist like the rest of the Republican Party" - and Kemp said, "Thanks, Al" - and just that quickly, the die was cast.

As I say, the Republican Party is the party of the middle class - and if it fails to stand up for the middle class, it is nothing. So Kemp went from hero to zero in the twinkling of an eye. Profoundly disappointing to me personally, as I hoped Kemp was the second coming of Reagan up until that instant.