I call it a lib manufactured affair pointing to the speck in the Republican's eye that ignores the beam in theirs.
One of the best political thrillers I have ever read, it’s
scary that Donkey Cons is a piece of non-fiction. This
book takes liberals to task for their con-artist ways,
while holding conservatives responsible for their
indiscretions, as well. Although, as Donkey Cons argues,
there is a fundamental difference between the two parties:
when a Democrat is involved in a scandal, he becomes a
national figure for the party, but when a Republican is
involved in a scandal it always ends with him resigning
in disgrace.
Donkeys misbehavin'
A review of 'Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party'
Review by Monique E. Stuart
Townhall.com
Apr 13, 2006
While politicians on the Left are busy working with the Left-leaning media to sell the idea of what they have branded the Right’s “culture of corruption,” Robert Stacy McCain and Lynn Vincent, in their new book 'Donkey Cons: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Democratic Party', expose the real culture of corruption that has been woven into the fabric of the Democrat Party since it’s inception. This includes everything from the party’s founding father Aaron Burr to the Left’s involvement with Jack Abramoff.
A refreshing book, low in rhetoric and high in historical fact (with over 600 footnotes), Donkey Cons chronicles crime after crime committed by the Left and how its representatives are seemingly immune to judgment, never held accountable, and actually rewarded for their crimes by moving to some of the most powerful positions in the party (eg. Teddy Kennedy, Hill and Bill Clinton).
McCain and Vincent write:
It seems almost any crime can be excused or ignored if the
perpetrator is a Democrat. A married Democrat mayor can be
caught smoking crack cocaine with a prostitute and, even
after he is convicted and sentenced to prison, manage to
return to public office. A married Democratic senator who
leaves a party with a single young woman and gets into a
drunk-driving accident that kills her does not merely
avoid jail time, but retains his Senate seat and indeed
goes on to become one of the most powerful politicians in
his party. Wholesale corruption, election fraud,
kickbacks, bribery, espionage, treason—if you’re a
Democrat, such acts apparently are never major scandals,
and certainly are never portrayed by the major media as
evidence that you or your party are untrustworthy.
Demonstrating their reporter backgrounds (McCain is an assistant editor at The Washington Times, and Vincent is features editor at World Magazine) by offering balance to their story, the authors also report corrupt Republicans as well. Unfortunately for the Left, as McCain and Vincent point out, there’s just not as much to report.
Using information from the website Political Graveyard, which they describe as a “non-partisan Web site that parses local, state, and federal politicians into numerous categories (nationality, awards won, religion practiced, and so forth,” they showed that “Democratic double-dealers listed on the Political Graveyard far outnumbered GOP crooks: 88 to 49.”
Detailing the numerous scandals involving Congressmen who deal with, as they call it, “money-grubbing,” McCain and Vincent tally the damage on both sides of the aisle. They report:
The politicians listed to this point were freelance
malefactors, with Democrats outnumbering Republicans 29 to
13, a similar ratio to our Political Graveyard analysis.
But sometimes corruption happens in bulk. And when it
does, Democrats are there… While eighteen congressional
Democrats were either convicted in court or disciplined by
their own chamber, only three Republicans were caught up
in multimember scandals—and one of those had his
conviction overturned.
Donkey Cons goes beyond that, exploring in depth how politicians on the Left jumped in bed with the mob back in the 1930s and how labor unions today, to a large degree, simply dictate their party’s platform. The authors explore the Left’s treasonous tendencies, especially when it comes to communist regimes, though this is quickly being replaced by a love for Islamo-fascist regimes.
McCain and Vincent expose how liberals aid and abet criminals and then lobby to return their right to vote (and we can guess who they’ll vote for). They uncover how the Left is really the party of the rich and the presidential affairs and then give a snapshot of how deep the Clinton White House was in a scandal much worse than the affair with Monica Lewinksy: Chinagate. Finally, closing out the book with the Left’s involvement with Jack Abramoff, which as it turns out, isn’t a “Republican scandal,” after all.
One of the best political thrillers I have ever read, it’s scary that Donkey Cons is a piece of non-fiction. This book takes liberals to task for their con-artist ways, while holding conservatives responsible for their indiscretions, as well. Although, as Donkey Cons argues, there is a fundamental difference between the two parties: when a Democrat is involved in a scandal, he becomes a national figure for the party, but when a Republican is involved in a scandal it always ends with him resigning in disgrace.
I highly recommend this book to liberals who want to familiarize themselves better with the party they are associating themselves with, and I also recommend it to conservatives who need to be reminded why they call themselves conservative. This book is especially helpful for young readers not familiar with the historical facts of how far back immorality and corruption really does go on the Left: since the party’s beginning.
Monique E. Stuart is Program Officer for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute.
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