Suddenly truth matters

Now that Bill Clinton has left the White House un-indicted, with the silverware and everything else that wasn’t nailed down there and on Air Force One, Democrats have found a new respect for the truth. At Condi Rice’s confirmation hearing yesterday, Democrats forewent the Aunt Jemima comparisons that their like-minded friends in the liberal media had engaged in when Rice was first nominated. Fearing a backlash for calling an accomplished black woman an Aunt Jemima so close to MLK day, Barbara Boxer instead just called the uppity darky a liar.

"Your loyalty to your mission you were given overwhelmed your respect for the truth, and I don't say it lightly," Boxer said yesterday at the hearing. This after Democrat leader Harry Reid called Clarence Tomas stupid and Tom Daschel deep-sixed Miguel Estrada because he was an accomplished Latino. What do all of these have in common? Rice is, of course, more talented, smarter, and more accomplished in a greater variety of fields than Boxer could ever hope to be. All are certainly well qualified and accomplished people. But that is not what makes them dangerous to the Democrat Party. They are dangerous because they are conservative thinkers that somehow slipped off the reservation and succeeded beyond where liberals think they should have without government assistance and loyalty to the Democrat Party.

Democrats cannot have these kinds of people - who have broken the stereotype and found success without the government programs so dear to libs - in positions of power spreading, Gasp!, conservative ideas. A couple of posts below, I noted that Republicans do while Democrats talk. Well, President Bush has found great minority nominees, blacks, women, Latinos, Catholics and the Democrats have impugned their intelligence, their temperament, their commitment to civil rights and have obstructed and blocked them from serving. All while maintaining that they are the party that is the last best hope for minorities. The bad news for the Dems is that it didn’t work in the ’04 election and will not work in ’06. Red state Dems better get a word in edgewise or they’ll be going the way of the three prong pitchfork.