Shaking in their Boots...
revised
The recent vitriol and racism hurled at Condoleezza Rice has a single root cause:
Democrats and liberals are absolutely scared to death of Dr. Rice.
They have done the electoral calculus. If Dr. Rice is on the ticket as VP, the minimum percentage of the African-American vote going to the Republicans is 25%, probably much higher. If she runs for President, the percentage of the African-American vote could be 60-70%, possibly even more.
The Democrats can’t win a presidential election with less than 90% of the African-American vote. If the Republican ticket gets 25% of that vote, it is a landslide victory, the likes of which have not been seen since FDR.
But that’s not the really bad news for the Democrats.
The really bad news is that the Republican Party becomes the party that put an African-American in the VP office or possibly the Whitehouse. That legacy will resonate for decades and the Democrats know it.
After such an accomplishment, it is likely that African-Americans will vote much along the lines as the rest of America: 40% Dem, 40% GOP, and the rest swing. The Democrats are looking at decades before they could get back the Whitehouse.
The Democrats are well aware of the historical precedent. LBJ got the voting rights and civil rights acts by twisting arms and with the help of Republicans. LBJ gets the credit for these achievements and for getting the first African-American on the Supreme Court (T. Marshall). As the leader of the Democrat party, the Democratic Party is thus the beneficiary. This legacy is the primary reason for the Democrat hold on the African-American vote.
Now, imagine you are a young African-American woman, in her late teens or early 20’s, and you see that the first African-American and woman president is a Republican.
No one should be surprised. It is the same reason the Democrats filibustered Miguel Estrada (remember those memos?). A Latino on the SCOTUS breaks the hold Democrats have on that voting block.
With regard to Dr. Rice, this has actually been going on for more than a year or so. When Dr. Rice first became National Security Advisor, great praise came from the media, how brilliant she was, and what a fantastic success story was the theme. But as it became clear this woman could be President, it began to change. Suddenly she was a lightweight; “in over her head”, per Newsweek’s Conventional Wisdom.
And now we see the Democrats trying to destroy her, classifying her as a ‘yes man’ and other insults to her character and abilities. In doing so their veil has come off: The have revealed their racism by portraying Dr. Rice like Amos and Andy or Buckwheat - Racism every bit as ugly as that of Bull Connor in Birmingham circa 1963.
No one is fooled. They are earning their fate. |
