Maryland Republicans get the vapors:
Maryland Republicans decried as “racist” a Democratic congressman’s comment that lieutenant governor and Republican Senate candidate Michael Steele “slavishly” supports the GOP.
Steele, a former chairman of the state Republican Party, is black.
Aw, baloney!
This country is infested with a class of active offense-takers.
It used to be that you’d see them mostly in the Letters to the Editor column in your local newspaper. They were people who combed the paper every day, looking for some word or phrase to which they could take offense, so they could write a letter to the editor and maybe get their name and their favorite rant in the paper. Some fun.
Now professional politicians have gotten into the game, acting like some Victorian lady who faints at the sight of an exposed piano leg — sorry, limb. And it’s all a crock of — uh — manure.
“Slavishly” is a perfectly good adverb to describe the way a politician might support every edict handed down from on high by his party’s political bosses. Whether it is a fair characterization of Michael Steele’s career, I don’t know.
Well, actually, I can make a pretty good guess. Considering how the Republicans started shrieking and swooning and taking offense in order to change the subject, I’m betting that the remark pretty much hit the nail on the head.
The Libertarian Guy | 19-Oct-06 at 4:57 pm | Permalink
This incident may not be that offensive, but you must admit the Dems are royally pissed that a black man dares not be one of the collective.
But take this incident and turn it 180 degrees: Republican calls black Democrat “slavish”.
We’d never hear the end of it. There would be endless calls for this racist to step down or be investigated.
OTOH, I do love watching the RepubliCrats duke it out. Keep flingin’ that poo at each other. It’s a lot of fun, and the more they bicker over who gets to run our lives for us… the less work they get done in Congress. Always a good thing.