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Oh. I almost forgot…

Warning. You can’t “unsee” this…

At the time, I recall saying “Well, what can you do? You can either worry about it all day long or have faith that the American people will do the right thing.”

Boy, was I wrong. Example.

What a tool.

Couple that with those same mushy middlers on the Sotomayor nomination and I’m reminded of Mark Steyn’s old column “Telling It Like It Is: We’re Awful” from the Spectator but I can’t find a link to it. Set after the week of the 2000 convention, it’s just as relevant today:

“…Finally, though, someone at this Republican Convention had the guts to stand up, go negative and make a vicious personal attack…on Republicans. In his keynote address, General Colin Powell said enough with the niceness and argued that Republicans were racist hypocrites who’d abandoned the mantle of Lincoln and cared nothing for helping black children while being happy to provide corporate affirmative action for fat cats.

And the Republicans loved it! General Powell had said much the same thing at the ’96 convention, but the cranky Doleful GOP of four years ago had been unimpressed and had even had the temerity to venture the occasional boo. This time round, they applauded, they cheered to themselves: “You know, that’s guy’s got us just right. We really are awful, aren’t we?”

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Come November, I don’t expect Republicans to have made significant inroads among African-American voters. And, whether or not the General knows it, that’s not his job. His job is to make significant inroads among those “moderate” white voters who feel vaguely squeamish about the GOP and need to be reassured that pulling the lever for the Republicans doesn’t mean you’re Jesse Helms.”

Peggy Noonan called your office. The 2000 Republicans convention wants it’s condescending smarm back.