What Is This World Coming To?

We were only a scream away from the possibility that Howard Dean could conceivably be President of the United States today, but that is the genius of the nomination process. It separates the liars from the lunatics, and in Dean’s case, exposes those who are both.

Dean made headlines by calling the Republican Party the “white” party:

“If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic Party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the Republican Party because we just give more opportunity to folks who are hardworking people who are immigrants and come from members of minority groups,” Dean said at one point.

It appears that the Democrats have finally found their campaign issue. It’s Republican racism. Obama has adopted a practice at every campaign stop of mentioning that the Republicans will use the fact Obama is black against him. It must be working — so far no Republican has dared to bring it up. Just the Democrats. Over and over.

In most elections, the Left prefers to divide according to class, rich vs. poor, bourgeoisie vs. proletariat; black vs white is something the Democrats have avoided since the 1950s, (when the Democrats were the party of Jim Crow and the Republicans the party of Lincoln). This new effort, running a black candidate and claiming to be the ‘party of color’ is still wobbly. So far, the only racist comments of any kind have emanated from within the ranks of the Democrats.

Before being elected head of the Democratic National Committee, Dean was governor of Vermont, a state that is 0.7% black. Who better to criticize the pot than the kettle? The DNC later issued a statement to the effect that Dean ‘misspoke’ after his comment drew the inevitable comparisons to the Dean scream the sunk his 2004 run for the White House.

As previously noted, Dean is both a lunatic and a liar. In 2005 he told a gathering of the San Francisco Democratic elite: “They all behave the same. They all look the same. It’s pretty much a white Christian party.”

Really.  Colin Powell was the first black secretary of state in history. Condi Rice the second black and first woman. The Department of Commerce is headed by Carlos Guitierrez. The Department of Labor by Elaine Chao.

There is former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Labor Secretary Linda Chavez, Spencer Abraham, Mel Martinez, Alphonso Jackson . . . let’s not forget that Clarence Thomas was appointed to the Supreme Court by former President Bush.

If one browses the Democrat Party’s official website, one comes upon a page entitled, “Democratic Leaders.” They all look alike.

But race is this year’s campaign issue, so get used to it. The Democrats already used bringing down oil prices and improving the economy to get elected in 2006 — they’d rather we didn’t dwell on the outcome. If Hillary had gotten the nomination, it would have been women vs. men — that’s entertaining, but ultimately kind of messy. But race-baiting only works if somebody takes the bait.