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The Spectacle Blog
Last week, I listed nine reasons why Republicans ought to nominate Herman Cain.
Let’s go straight to Reason #7 - “He Would Make Liberal Charges of Racism Look Really, Really Stupid.”
It seems that Leslie Savan of The Nation is eager to make that point for me. While she is kind enough to cite my Cain article she seems to have missed the point of it. Savan writes:
In an age when even the most rabid birthers and mosque molesters fly into a rage at the suggestion they might be bigots, it’s become impolitic to state the obvious: that a lot of Tea Party types are crazy for Cain because he shields them against charges of racism.
So if Republicans nominate Cain, it’s because they’re racist. If Republicans don’t nominate him, it’s also because they’re racist.
Perhaps Savan should have paid closer attention to Reason #8 - “The Content of His Character.”
But why would she? Far too many liberals define their liberalism with the notion that “conservative=racist.” It never occurs to these liberals that conservatives might actually judge people by the content of their character. It never occurs to these liberals that conservatives might actually like Herman Cain for his ideas, values, real world experience and sense of humor amongst other things. To do that, these liberals would have to think of conservatives as three-dimensional, flesh and blood human beings instead of one-dimensional, boorish caricatures. Remove those perceptions and you remove most of modern liberalism’s intellectual underpinnings.
Nevertheless, I wish to thank Leslie Savan for making liberal charges of racism look really, really stupid where it concerns Herman Cain. I’m sure she won’t be the last liberal I thank.
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albert constantine jr| 10.10.11 @ 10:45PM
The bulk of liberal criticism of conservatives is poorly disguised projection. If you want to know what they'll do when they're in power, listen to what they're screaming that Republicans (or conservatives) are doing.
Jeff Powell| 10.10.11 @ 11:21PM
Your experience also illustrates why the left feels no moral inhibition from electoral cheating: if your opponents are all a bunch of racists with no legitimate claim to governance, why you would be remiss if you didn't "ensure" that the good guys (i.e., liberals) won every close election.
Prester John| 10.11.11 @ 7:28AM
And then there is Cornell West saying Cain "should get off the crack pipe".
My, my, my, is someone stereotyping a black man?
"Stupid people are ruining America"
Herman Cain 2012
David W| 10.11.11 @ 8:21AM
Any time I dislike/loathe someone it is because of their character. Jesse Jackson (preacher who committed adultry and then took money from his charity to keep his mistress in comfort) I loathe. Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton (need I say more) I loathe. Barack "It's not my fault" Obama, I loathe (not because he is half black, but because he is a full idiot).
Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, Walter Williams, Thomas Sowell, Star Parker, Alfonzo Rachel, Herman Cain, and Col West and those like them I like. They also give me hope - that the race baiters and economic slave masters like Jackson, Sharpton, Rangel, Waters, Lee, the CBC, and others will soon find that their influence is greatly reduced as blacks across the country realize who is really screwing the blacks, and it ain't the Republicans/Tea Partiers.
Soapy Johnson| 10.11.11 @ 12:57PM
Janeane Garofalo suggests that Herman Cain should think a certain way based on the color of his skin -- and the Tea Party is racist? ... ... http://placeitonluckydan.com/2.....ical-grit/
Conservative View| 10.11.11 @ 3:24PM
AS THE MSM ASKS ITSELF "NOW WHAT?"
The liberal media is in a hole of it's own making. Cain is black. Cain is a successful black. He is a man of achievement. His character is beyond serious reproach. He is, in short, all that the MSM has said American blacks can and should be. Unfortunatly he is conservative. For the MSM that raises a tough question, "Now what?"
It is small wonder that the MSM is playing up, as loudly as possible, known blacks who are against a Cain nomination. The MSM has invested a great deal of time, energy and effort in praising President Obama. Unfortunatly, President Obama has proven to be a dismal failure. This raises an impossible question for the MSM, "Now what?"
The line that the Republicans have only supported Herman Cain because he is black, and thus Republicans and conservatives in general only prove just how raceist they are, is so stupid that a six year old is left shaking his head. If supporting a successful black over a dismal failure is raceism then all of America should be asking the question, "Now what?"
Is raceism so much a part of the America character that the MSM can support a black failure over a black success? It would seem so at the moment. I can only imagine that in time, as the Cain juggernaught continues to roll that the argument of raceism will get put to rest. When that happens there will be no ammunition left in the liberals locker. They will be left looking rather foolish as they ask themselves the question, "Now what?"
I still believe that Herman Cains' worst enemy will not prove to be the Democrats or the liberals. It will prove to be the power broker elites of the Republican party. He is a man that owes no one in politics much of anything. He is a lose cannon. There would be little that the power brokers of the Republican party could do to force much of anything upon him. He doesn't owe many favors. Were Cain to win the nomination (and dear God I hope he does) he had best wear kevlar coats to deflect the knives aimed at his back. For if Herman Cain wins the nomination the Republican party elite will be asking themselves, "Now what?"
The best that can come of this is Herman Cain winning the election for President of the United States. If that happens the entire liberal movement will eye each other in fear, asking over their wine and designer expressoes the singular question, "Now what?"
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