Fighting Dirty for the Black Vote

Mona Charen has a good piece on the concerns expressed by Donna Brazile, Gore's campaign manager, that the GOP is making in-roads with the black voters that are so critical to Democratic hopes for victory. Anything less than 85-90% of the vote, means certain defeat. Charen writes:

The Democrats' answer to this lopsided equation has been to stoke racial animosity and distrust wherever possible. The more that African-Americans can be made to feel targeted, victimized and despised, the easier it is for Democrats to pose as their friends and champions. We have thus witnessed countless episodes over the past decade and a half when liberals have invented racist incidents.

Brazile herself contributed to this myth-making when she declared that the results of the 2000 election in Florida represented "a systematic disenfranchisement of people of color and poor people," adding that "in disproportionately black areas, people faced dogs, guns, and were required to have three forms of ID."

This is pure fiction. So were Democrats' claims that George W. Bush somehow condoned the dragging murder of James Byrd in Texas, or that Judge Charles Pickering was soft on the KKK, or that black churches in the South were targets of a racist arson conspiracy.

The problem with this kind of slander is that truth eventually wins out. As more and more blacks realize that their "leaders" have been lying to them, the percentage voting Republican will increase.

Because of this and other reasons I'll examine in future posts, the Democratic Party is in much worse shape than they imagine.