Republicans Are for the Rule of Law and Are Not Racist at All

Obama's Election Inspires Blacks to Run for Office...As Republicans

Really?

Among the many reverberations of President Obama’s election, here is one he probably never anticipated: at least 32 African-Americans are running for Congress this year as Republicans, the biggest surge since Reconstruction, according to party officials.

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They credit the marriage of two factors: dissatisfaction with the Obama administration, and the proof, as provided by Mr. Obama, that blacks can get elected.

Is it me, or is this a little reminiscent of John McCain's brilliant All Vaginas Are The Same campaign strategy of 2008, in which he expected Hillary Clinton supporters to rally around Sarah Palin because, well, they're both chicks? If Americans were willing to vote for Barack Obama, who is black, obviously, they will vote for other people who are black. Like Michael Steele.

Timothy F. Johnson, chairman of the Frederick Douglass Foundation, a black conservative group...[said] that the candidates might be helped by the presence of Michael Steele, the chairman of the Republican National Committee who is black and ran for the Senate himself in 2006.

Mr. Johnson is apparently unaware that Steele lost that election in 2006.

Americans citizens of color running for office - gee doesn't that mean that the battle fought for civil rights by progressive Americans worked. That some of those black Americans running as anti-progress conservatives is ironic just ironic, not news. GOP Candidate Dan Fanelli Runs Pro-Racial Profiling Ad: ‘Let’s Face It’ — The ‘Good-Looking Rich Guy’ Isn’t A Terrorist - Odd that the rich guy you would never suspect of doing anything wrong in the video is white - you know like most of the guys at Wall St firms like Goldman-Sachs and AIG that have ruined millions of lives.

Judge Cornyn's(R-TX) War on the Rule of Law

That Texas Senator John Cornyn joined John McCain in the Republican chorus denouncing the Obama administration for reading Times Square bomb suspect Faisal Shahzad his Miranda rights is unsurprising. Unsurprising and sadly ironic. After all, from detainee torture and illicit domestic surveillance to judicial intimidation and defendant's rights, Cornyn isn't just a ring leader of the GOP war on the Constitution and the rule of law. Before coming to the Senate, Judge Cornyn served as his state's attorney general and on the Texas Supreme Court.

Cornyn's disregard for the Constitution was once again on display on Tuesday. Three months after slamming the Justice Department's "hasty decision to pursue criminal charges" against Detroit underwear bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, Senator Cornyn claimed President Obama got lucky when authorities followed the law with Shahzad

Maybe the Republicans that think the law is not about justice would be more comfortable living in Communists China with their ideological cousins.