Progressive Blindness

This morning, I have been perusing the articles and columns discussing today's elections to see if there has been any shift in the coverage now that the campaigns are over. I wanted to see if the heart of the Progressive press recognizes what is happening.

My first stop was with Eugene Robinson, a Washington Post writer who is perhaps the biggest Obama partisan at that newspaper -- which is like being the most Catholic person at the Vatican. Robinson has an article out today explaining that campaigns of the Tea Party and the Republicans are motivated to a great extent by racism and which further explains tha all of the nations problems are the fault of George Bush. What, you may ask, is his proof of racism? Here it is: Rand Paul, the tea party Republican running for the Senate from Kentucky said recently that if Republicans win, "we get to go to Washington and take back our government."
Robinson says this is clearly racist. After all, Robinson wants to know from whom the GOP will take back America.

I feel foolish having to tell a grown man the answer to this "riddle". The GOP will take back America from the Democrats who have ignored the views of the American people while in power. When over 60% of the people opposed Obamacare, the Democrats passed it anyway. Rand Paul is saying that the GOP will listen to the people when they get back to power. any fool would understand that. Apparently, Eugene Robinson is not just any fool; he is a really major fool.

I would have thought that the left would realize by now that accusations of racism no longer work to silence the conservatives. In the last two years, nearly everyone in the country has been called a racist by the Democrat power structure. First it was the Clintons who were evil racists exposed during the south Carolina primary in 2008. Then it was the Republicans who supported John McCain instead of Obama. then, after obama's innauguration, it was those who opposed Obama's agenda with the Tea Party getting particularly targeted. But the Tea party was not alone. The policeman from Cambridge Massachusetts who arrested Harvard professor Skip Gates was branded a racist idiot by Obama even though that policeman ran groups for the police force to combat racism. The croud outside the Capitol on the day Obamacare passed was said to have called certain black Congressmen the N word, even though no proof of the allegation has ever surfaced.

I believe that the accusation of racism lost its sting on that day outside the Capitol. The Democrats staged a walk by the black congressmen through the crowd (which none of the other congressmen came through), and then claimed racism by the Tea Partiers outside. The media -- without exception --was immediately on the story as if it was a national disaster. Those vile racists in the Tea Party had been exposed!!!
But then something wonderful happened. Those who had been attacked fought back. They denied that anyone had said the N word and they directly questioned the statements from the Congressmen. They also directly questioned the claims of those who were promoting the story. And, under scutiny, those claims fell apart. Even though there were countless cameras recording the walk through the crowd, not a single one recorded anything like what the left was claiming had happened. It was the first time in recent memory that the left played the race card and lost big. Suddenly the majority of people realized that no matter what they did, they would be labelled as racists. That attack which many had seen was just a political ploy by the left, had lost its sting.

So Robinson's latest column claiming that all opposition to Obama is racist is speaking to a very small audience. It is a moment to remember what Ronald Reagan famously said to Jimmy Carter when Carter began another bogus attack: "There you go again!"

If the Democrats are to recover from today's election results, they are going to have to come up with a new strategy. Attacking the American people as racists or morons wil really not win too many votes.