Black Voter Suppression? No. Exploitation? Yes - (Dems foster poisonous notion Repubs are "racist")

DAVID LIMBAUGH.COM ^ | JUNE 23, 2005 | DAVID LIMBAUGH

[CHARLITE]

Based on Florida 2000 and Ohio 2004, it is incontrovertible that Democrats will not be deterred by the evidence from promoting the incendiary propaganda that Republicans engage in systematic intimidation and suppression of black voters.

Will we ever be able to have a presidential election again without Democrats claiming they've been robbed? All it takes is for some Democrat bigwig or race activist like the Rev. Jesse Jackson to make an unsubstantiated allegation of black voter suppression. Henceforth, the truth of such allegations will be accepted and believed by large numbers of people, including many blacks, who trust Democrat bigwigs and the Jesse Jacksons not to lie to them.

It doesn't seem to matter to race baiters that the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights could find no evidence of actual black voter intimidation in Florida, despite an exhaustive investigation specifically targeted to prove that very charge.

Following the 2004 election, Democrats toyed for a while with the idea of soul searching to determine why they had fallen out of step with the majority of Americans. But it took no time for them to revert to form, denying the legitimacy of the vote and scapegoating alleged GOP chicanery for their losses.

They took it upon themselves to conduct an investigation (actually, it was more like a glorified poll) into possible voter fraud in Ohio, comforted by the knowledge that sometimes even a blind sow finds an acre. Lo and behold the report failed to corroborate their claims, finding there was no proof of GOP voter fraud.

There was also no finding of black voter suppression by Republicans, though the "investigators" did permit the vague complaints from black voters about problems they experienced voting to hang in the air to create some element of doubt about whether it occurred. The report stated that disproportionately high numbers of blacks and young people had complained about long lines, intimidation and malfunctioning machines.

The absence of evidence of GOP misconduct did not prevent Democratic National Committee Chair Howard Dean from again publicly blasting Republicans while exhibiting the same level of righteous indignation one might expect if an independent, objective, legitimate, untainted investigation had actually revealed a clear pattern of electoral abuse.

Dean said, "This is bad for America. We need to repair and restructure the way we conduct elections in America." Let's rephrase the quote to better capture Dean's intended meaning: "It is bad for America that Republicans keep on winning national elections. We need to repair and restructure the way we conduct elections in America to reverse this trend."

Dean also said, "It's been widely reported over the past several years that Republicans do target African-Americans for voter suppression. It's very clear here while there was no massive voter fraud, and I concur with the conclusion -- it's also clear that there was massive voter suppression."

Dean's unwarranted inference -- that the investigation found black voter suppression by Republicans -- prompted Cornell University professor Walter Mebane Jr., who was involved in the study, to contradict Dean's claim.

Mebane said, "Where the partisan bias came from, where it went, we really have no basis for making any assertion about that and I don't believe the report makes any statements about that."

Dean, predictably, was hardly fazed by the correction. "While we certainly couldn't draw a proven conclusion that this was willful, it certainly has the appearance of impropriety," he said.

Let me just say this flat out. I don't believe Howard Dean believes Republicans try to suppress the black vote. I don't believe Al Gore believed it when he said it. I don't believe John Kerry believes it. I don't believe liberal black activists believe it.

What I do believe is that the Democratic leadership fosters the poisonous notion that Republicans are, by definition, racists. That this charge so routinely and readily falls off the lips of Democrat leaders demonstrates the ugly arrogance that afflicts their party.

To be sure, the intentional suppression or intimidation of black voters (or any other group) would be horrendously unconscionable. But so is the intentional perpetuation of the false charge that Republicans are racists, merely because they have philosophical and ideological differences with Democrats.

It is hard to imagine the damage that such reckless claims by Dean and others -- based on wishful thinking at best -- do to race relations. If these Democratic leaders were truly sensitive to race relations, they wouldn't dare make such baseless assertions. That they repeatedly do shows that they value race hustling more than race relations.

I have to wonder whether more and more blacks aren't beginning to realize the extent to which the Democratic machine takes them for granted. If the day ever arrives when they come to trust Republicans, Democrats will doubtlessly rue the day they were so exploitive.

[Michael.SF.]

Personally, I would prefer that the Democrats continue to believe that we have been able to steal two presidential elections through conniving, subterfuge, intimidation and computer programing of voting machines.

It's either that, or they figure out that their policies are absolute failures, which would then cause them to revaluate their strategy.

[noodler]

I do thank you for presenting in concise way a difficult trip.I agree with the editorial leaning except in paragraph I think fourth from bottom.To be more clear the dems actually believe(?!) what they are saying..They don't even believe it more than they believe in...Well you get the point.This is basically about people trying to hold their head above water until they drown.THEY have used every means necessary.They have perverted and disinformed those who they said they would speak frankly to.They are resonsible as are many hordes of hoodlems they've groomed to further destroy their community and beyond.Then pepper them,with crap but no info.Pour gasoline on firey thought.We need Mike Tyson to punch some these buggers Out!

[nathanbedford]

To be sure, the intentional suppression or intimidation of black voters (or any other group) would be horrendously unconscionable. But so is the intentional perpetuation of the false charge that Republicans are racists, merely because they have philosophical and ideological differences with Democrats

Well, the report is written, the Republicans exonerated, the Democrats proven wrong, the Black "community" was race-baited, and the press was AWOL.

Now, lets see if we can find something new or at least new to say about this biennial flowering in American politics.

First, the Republicans took their pro-forma excoriation like broken, dispirited dogs who were so used to the whipping they have come to believe they deserve it. But there are signs of progress, Sen. McCain, at least so far, has shown uncharacteristic restraint in not publicly joining in this season's round of condemnation to express his "regret." The Party too has shown unwonted spirit by not calling on Trent Lott to apologize again.

Second, The black ghetto in America continues to be defenseless to the the virus of conspiracy theory which increasingly has come to dominate Afro-American politics.

Third, it continues to be the case that one cannot point to a prominent Black leader who is not a demagogue. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, Louis Farrakand, the list is long. Blacks like Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell or Condeleeza Rice have no respect, power, or intellectual and moral influence commensurate with their achievements. It still pays to demagogue.

Fourth, the American African-American ghetto is beginning to share more characteristics of the Arab Street. Its penchant for conspiracy, its confirmed attachment to victimood, its contempt for orderly society and its devotion to false leaders suggest that future for those African-Americans who cannot break free of this Al Jazzera mentality will not be bright.

Fifth, the liberal establishment is creating a monster in our midst. The dysfunctionality of the Black dilemma is creeping into mainstream America and especially into the Democrat party. That party is becoming impervious to logic and to reality. The cancer has spread to the press and the academic establishment which have repeatedly demonstrated that these institutions cannot deal with race free of agenda politics.

Sixth, so long as those who should and do know better do not refrain from the sort of race-baiting exhibited by Gov. Dean, the old adage of American politics must be amended to read: In America all politics are racial.

How sad that the central historical issue of the Great American Experiment, the question of race in America, is being so cynically exploited by one of its two great parties when at last we might have had a chance to solve the great American dilemma.