Posted by
BCORIG on Sunday, March 09, 2008 12:56:44 AM
I can't stop laughing. Steyn is usually entertaining and but this
post in the NRO really takes it.
He weighs in on the blatant
Identity Politics so rampant in the Democratic Party
"The Democratic primary season seems to have dwindled down into a psycho remake of Driving Miss Daisy.
The fading matriarch Mizz Hill’ry (Jessica Tandy) doesn’t want to give
up the keys to the Democratic-party vehicle but the dignified black
chauffeur Hokey (Morgan Freeman) insists it’ll be a much smoother ride
with him in the driver’s seat, full of gear change you can believe in,
etc. Yet, just as he thinks the old biddy’s resigned to a nomination as
Best Supporting Actress, the backseat driver plunges her hat pin into
his spine, wrests the wheel away and lurches across the median."
Steryn seems to feel that all this activity somehow will be bad for whomever is the nominee.
Right now, neither Mizz Hill’ry nor Hokey can win without the votes of
the “super-delegates,” whose disposition is apparently in flux. The gay
super-delegates, as I noted a week or two back, are apparently sticking
to Hillary like the Hello, Dolly! waiters to Carol Channing.
But others are said to be moving Barackwards. Are they jumping to a
stalled bandwagon? One Historical Guilt gives upscale white liberals a
chance to demonstrate their progressive bona fides in unison and with
nary a thought. Two Historical Guilts shrivels from transformative
feelgood fluffiness into sour tribalism. Like Hillary’s “I Am Woman”
routine, Obama’s cult of narcissism — “We are the change we have been
waiting for” — would have been a shoo-in against Biden, Dodd, and
Edwards. But the gaseous platitudes wafting up to Cloud Nine are
suddenly very earthbound. “Yes, we can!” is an effective pitch if
you’re the new messiah, not so much when you’re pulling in a very
humdrum fortysomething percent against a divisive and strikingly inept
campaigner."
We can't simply hope that these fools simply destroy each other. Whomever wins will have a ton of money to play with and the MSM on their side all the way . The truth never confused the editors of the New York Times or
60 Minutes.