Racist

Is it just my imagination or am I being called a racist more this year?  We’ve been told by almost innumerable progressive pundits that the only reason anyone could dislike Obama is because we Republicans are all racist. Maher was having a diatribe about how the R’s were the party of apes who had Allen West as an insanity case and then in the next sentence launched into the argument that R’s were racist.  Whoa, Bill! Do you realize what you just said.  And the day before it was Sam Donaldson (he’s alive!!) who piously pronounced the same thing.  Good grief, I have so many people who are experts on what I have in my mind. 

Now of course, you can point out the obvious, that real racism is rare and studies show that it is about 0.3% of US population which qualifies as bonafied racists.  Or you can quote Dinesh D’Sousa who puzzles over why he hardly ever experienced racism while hearing about it so often from other minority friends. Or you can quote statistics like the fact that approximately half of Oklahomans are mixed race.  It won’t do any good and here’s why.  Democrats make political hay out of US-THEM politics.  They are a coalition party of various groups and the main tool to make these diverse groups vote together is to scare them with the r-word.  Doesn’t matter how logical the Republicans sound, don’t vote for them because they are racists who are out to get you. 

But as America becomes more mixed brown by marriage and birth, this is going to start ringing hollow.  I think we are already seeing it.  For example, Obama gives an edict to establish the Dream Act without the Act and gets no poll bump.  Why? What’s wrong with those Latinos?  Well, maybe they noticed that his Attorney General  was at the same time getting a contempt of Congress for a gun sting gone bad.  The FAF sting killed an American border guard but, unnoticed by the rest of the media, it has killed 200 Mexicans on the other side of the border.  So much for compassion for the Hispanics, eh? 

Along with increasingly shrill cries of racism, is that other US-THEM tool, hatred for the rich.  And it isn’t working very well this year either.  The public is as lost on the connection as Holder would be if you asked him to watch your AK-47 for a minute. 

Here’s what the racism and class envy shrillness tells us.  Obama is in deep trouble.  They’ve gotten down to the bottom of the toolbag and there are those the only two shopworn techniques they have left.  And when the only tool you have is a hammer, everything starts looking like a nail.

But in the interests of making this a real race and giving the D’s a handicap, I will hereby volunteer to be an honorary racist.  I believe in and prefer the human race. I like brown people, since all human beings are some shade of brown.  And my wife calls me a racist when I sit and watch NASCAR on TV.  Plus, I know all about the KKK.  Wasn’t that the name of the Klingon planet where the apes came from? You know, Planet of the Republicans?  I dunno, ask Bill Maher.