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Condoleeza Rice in 2008!
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<p>So Condi Rice is going to replace Colin Powell as Secretary of State.<br />
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I have to think this means she’s being groomed for the Republican ticket<br />
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in 2008.</p>
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<p>Well, I hope so anyway. I know very little about her, but I’ve discovered<br />
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that I <em>really</em> want to have a ringside seat on the farcical hijinks<br />
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that will certainly ensue if the Republicans run a black woman for President,<br />
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or even Veep.</p>
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<p>Just so my position is clear, it is quite unlikely I’d vote for<br />
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her. As in, not unless the Libertarian candidate is a werewolf or<br />
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something. It’s just that the thought of Democratic strategists<br />
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having shit fits over the hemhorraging black vote greatly amuses me.<br />
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The panic and confusion that would reign on the New York Times<br />
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editorial page as their political-correctness bias <em>clashes</em><br />
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(for once) with their anti-Republican bias would be good for many<br />
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guffaws. I might actually listen to NPR just to hear them choking.<br />
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In general, just watching the machinery of smug left-wing duckspeak<br />
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seize up and damage itself on Condi’s blackness would be<br />
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delicious.</p>
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<p>Watching Republican racist/nativist types hold their gorges down<br />
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for the sake of party unity would be entertaining too, but probably<br />
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much less so as that type seems rather rare these days. In lieu of<br />
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that, I’d just have to content myself with the screams of insenate<br />
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rage that would issue from the neo-Nazis at <a href='http://www.stormfront.org/'>Stormfront</a>. Why, they might be<br />
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almost as angry as the “Bush=Hitler” crew over at Democratic<br />
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Underground. With any luck we might actually get to watch a few of<br />
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the vicious morons on both sites die of thundering apoplexy.</p>
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<p>Truly, what’s not to like?</p>
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<p>There are, of course, excellent reasons for the Republicans to try<br />
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this maneuver. Mainstream blacks are far more socially conservative<br />
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than most of the other interest groups in the Democratic coalition. I<br />
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personally do not consider this is a good thing, but there is no<br />
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denying that it makes them pretty ripe to be the next demographic that<br />
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gets chiseled out of the party (following southerners, rust-belt<br />
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blue-collar whites, and most recently Catholics).</p>
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<p>But having a corner on the black vote is important to the Democrats<br />
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for more than just raw poll numbers. On it, now that the whites at<br />
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the bottom of the socio-economic scale have gone majority-Republican,<br />
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rests their last tenable claim to be the Party of the Oppressed. This<br />
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claim has become so important to their image and internal mythology that,<br />
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without it, the Democrats might very well collapse.</p>
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<p>Who’s going to be their next favorite victim group to hang this<br />
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myth from? Homosexuals won’t do; there are too few of them at 4%.<br />
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The Jews wouldn’t do either, at 2%, even if the Dems hadn’t gotten<br />
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badly tainted by the creeping anti-Semitism of their own left<br />
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wing. Hispanics used to look promising, but they’re in a late stage of<br />
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assimilation and obviously headed the way of the Italians or Irish —<br />
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they won’t remain an ethnic voting bloc for even another decade.</p>
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<p>It’s hard to peddle your outfit as tribunes of the disadvantaged<br />
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when your main powerbases are the public-employee unions, Hollywood,<br />
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and the Upper East Side. The Republicans have gotten pretty good at<br />
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nailing the Democratic leadership as the spoiled children of wealth<br />
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and privilege even <em>with</em> the blacks in the Democratic column;<br />
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without them, it’s just going to get uglier. And Condi Rice would be<br />
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the perfect wedge candidate.</p>
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<p>Your average Democrat’s reflex seems to be to blame the sinister<br />
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machinations of Karl Rove for this state of affairs. The trouble with<br />
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this theory is that Clarence Thomas, Colin Powell, and Condi Rice do<br />
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actually <em>exist</em>. They’re not just fantasies, and they<br />
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represent a degree of access and power black people never had under<br />
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any Democratic administration.</p>
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<p>Cynical tactical positioning? Maybe. Who cares? No matter what<br />
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the Republicans mean by it, the cause of equality gains and the<br />
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hate-spewing race-baiters on the left and right lose. Condi in<br />
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2008!</p>
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