Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Diversity is as diversity does
Mark Steyn was of above-average eloquence today:
[D]ear old Nora Ephron's sneer over at The Huffington Post about whether Pennsylvania's embittered white men are more racist than they're sexist or vice-versa gets things completely upside down. The embittered white men are just about the only demographic weighing these candidates on their merits. The significant proportion of women and blacks in the Democratic base for whom identity politics trumps all is what's stopping either candidate from gaining the momentum that would have emerged in a contest between two squaresville dead European males. It's the identity-uber-alles blocs that prevent the black guy from finishing off the feminist or vice-versa.
Exactly.
Of course, the Republicans would be in deep trouble if the Democrats were actually choosing their nominee on the merits, so we tax-cutting, war-supporting, job-creating tools at least have that going for us. Which is huge.
CWCID: Rachel Lucas.
2 Comments:
By 
Elijah, at
Wed Apr 23, 10:51:00 PM:
it was interesting that Huff changed the original picture that accompanied the article
at least Nora is not advocating killing the white enemy
- change we an believe in!
By 
, at
Thu Apr 24, 11:19:00 AM:
Would that we were fiscally responsible as well as tax-cutting, war-supporting and job-creating.
On the merits, the Bushies leave the GOP without incumbancy, without good fiscal government and with an unpopular war. The war is important, and hard to explain to lots of Americans but Bush failed to really even give it much of a try. Lots of surrogates have done a great job but, unsurprisingly, the public was sort of thinking the President should have bellied up to the task at some point. Good fiscal discipline isn't in his lexicon at all, much to the chagrin of most centrists, and that's killing Republican candidates all over the country. If we had the unpopular war but good fiscal government I believe we would still be in power in Congress, as well as stronger in many states.
Obama is trying hard to give the election to McCain. But basic political blocking and tackling isn't being done (for example, McCain has yet to put his own guy in charge at the RNC!). Worse yet, the very mixed Bush legacy hangs over him like a "Peanuts" cartoon dirt storm.
