Discomfit and Demonization

Republicans for years have been subjected to charges that they wish to starve children and kill old people, that they despise the environment (Republicans breathe the same air and drink the same water), and are inherently racist. George Bush has appointed more minorities to high positions than any previous administration. Black Republicans have been vilified with Secretary of State Rice being pilloried in a disgusting cartoon. Black Republicans are called Uncle Tom and Oreo. Governor Palin is hanged in effigy in West Hollywood. Virtually all criticism of substantive policy differences directed at Obama has been called racism by Obamites. I would not vote for a socialist of any race but would gladly vote for Alan Keyes, Ward Connorly, Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Condi Rice, J.C. Watts, or any other number of conservatives who happen to be black. Obama said he would be a post-racial candidate but has used claims of racism as a panoply muting his opponents. Never has a candidate been asked so little seeking an office that means so much.