Pat Buchanan: Obama's Zimmerman problem

Human Events ^ | April 13, 2012 | Patrick J. Buchanan

[Mach9]

Not one of them is Mark Steyn’s equal.

[Feckless]

how will black leaders and black America react if Zimmerman walks?

I'm sure they will accept it graciously.... just like an NBA Championship loss, or win.

[Kenny Bunk]

Half the country is not virulently liberal.

True. OTOH, half the country doesn't vote. In re The 2010 elections proved that this is possible, ....

In the elections of 2010, Dem turnout was low. The urban masses did not turn out. No members of the CBC were turned out. In 2012, any state with large urban areas that can swamp the normal people of that state will be very much in play.

As far as "independents" go ... the day they swing heavily Republican, I'm buying. Team Obama is betting over $1Billion that they have a shot. I think they are right, and stimulus money buys a lot of fraud.

(1)Latinos
(2) women
(3) college kids (and faculty)
(4) union members
(5) and blacks.
That's the Democrat base,

[iopscusa]

A bit more Buchanan and Derbyshire would be a good thing, it flushes out the Repub Pansy Boyz from the fighters.

[GOPJ]

"All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen. And that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened, as well as the specifics of the incident." Translation: The death of Trayvon tells us something is wrong with America.

To most Americans, this is a slander against their country, refuted by the statistics on interracial crime. Obama, however, buys into it.

One more reason blacks and members of the MSM need to learn math... they really don't understand the truth - they don't 'get' numbers - like: over 90% of blacks are killed by other blacks. NOT by whites. (For members of the MSM that means 9 out of 10 blacks are killed by other blacks)

[Pearls Before Swine]

Correction:
America is a country where whites must walk in daily fear of black racist mobs!!!

America is a country where whites are called racists if they defend their person, home or property against harm from blacks!!!

Completely true, but most of white America hasn't admitted that to itself, and isn't prepared to hear that from a candidate.

[CharlotteVRWC]

“True. OTOH, half the country doesn’t vote. “

Sounds like half of the people on Free Republic aren’t voting either....

[sergeantdave]

“In the elections of 2010, Dem turnout was low. The urban masses did not turn out.”

Your demographic playbook is outdated. Big cities have been bleeding population for 50 years. In Seattle, there are more dogs than children. The commie governor granholm poured billions into Detroit to revive it under her ridiculous “Cool Cities” program, and it still lost population. Elections are now won or lost in exurbia.

Love him or hate him, Karl Rowe realized that and put together two winning campaigns using the exurbia strategy in 2000 and 2004. The key, of course, is to get the exurbia population out to the polls.

[The Great RJ]

In some ways the Zimmerman case resembles the O. J. Simpson murder case. With OJ the evidence, though circumstantial, clearly point at OJ being the killer. However OJ walked as a mostly Black jury was not convinced of his guilt. The Black community felt vindicated that brother OJ was not convicted by the white man's justice and that OJ was an innocent victim. The white community felt frustrated as they knew OJ was likely the murderer and was not convicted because of a racially motivated jury. Note however there were no calls for a bounty on OJ or that he should be executed by street mobs of white people.

Flash forward to the Zimmerman case. There is likely little evidence that Zimmerman is guilty of murder and based on eye witness testimony may well have been acting in self defense. Unless the jury is all Black, I doubt there will be a conviction and Zimmerman could walk. The Black community whipped to a frenzy by race hustlers will of course say this was a miscarriage of justice, that the probably mostly white jury was racially motivated in their decision. There will be mob violence and Zimmerman will fear for his life from Black vigilantes.

Now in these cases with what racial group is there race based component in the outcomes? When Jackson and especially Sharpton cry racism they better look in the mirror to see who are the real racists.

[jimfree]

Not one of them is Mark Steyn’s equal.

I wasn't excluding Mark but listing several. Mr. Steyn is the perhaps most literate non-degreed writer in our sphere.

[popdonnelly]

The public is not stupid. No matter how many times the news media tells them George Zimmerman is guilty, most will believe that he acted in self-defense. And the public knows we have a problem with violent crime in this country, regardless of the race of the perpetrators. Most of the public will wonder if this Administration really cares about their safety.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I suppose they are that stupid. They have convinced themselves that Bitter Clingers are a small remnant and most of the country actually agrees with them.

I suspect they are about to learn differently.

[Kenny Bunk]

The key, of course, is to get the exurbia population out to the polls.

OK Sergeant! Forgive my retro-vision, but I am still smarting from GW's loss in PA in 2004 (While Santorum won!) The crooked votes from Philly, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Wilkes-Barre, Chester, and Reading swept the state right out from under him.

Philly precincts with 98% reported voting? Or take New York State, where the "upstaters" talk a good conservative game, while usually forgetting to vote, letting the urban hordes of NYC carry the whole show.

Hey, I reckon you are right! But I can never forgive Karl and his "Mexicans are the Republicans of the Future."

[Kenny Bunk]

My retro-oculitis is worse than I thought! Make I refer to the the election of 2000.

GW lost on a wave of ballots in which no other candidate was checked!

[Kenny Bunk]

My retro-oculitis is worse than I thought! Make GW's loss in PA in 2004 (While Santorum won!) the election of 2000.

GW lost on a wave of ballots in which no other candidate was checked! Trying this thought again.

[Reily]

Hanson from his first work to his present is worth reading.
Will and Noonan not so much, their writing talent bank account is long overdrawn.

[Reily]

I agree.
The swing vote or “mushy middle” went “novelty” the last time. I don’t see that happening again, the only danger being is they might stay home. That I think unlikely.

[moehoward]

7:18 local time and we already have the post of the day.

[Hacksaw]

Is Team Obama that stupid, or did this just get away from them?

The Messiah isn't stupid. I think what happened is that his ego overrode his mouth.

Now Holder, however, is a different story. He seems to be doing everything possible to provoke a showdown with congress, so he can use the "I'm being attacked because I'm black" maxim.

[TXnMA]

Did I read somewhere that Zimmerman, himself, is a DemocRAT?