Don't Let Rove Use Our Heroes Against Us

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Friday September 01, 2006 · 6:25 AM PDT

2006/09/01 · 06:25

UPDATE: At the request of another diarist, I've changed the title of this diary. You can see the original title at E Pluribus Unum.

Flash back to Malcolm X in May, 1963:

As between the racists and the integrationists, I highly prefer the racists. I'd rather walk among rattlesnakes, whose constant rattle warns me where they are, than among those Northern snakes who grin and make you forget you're still in a snake pit.

Flash forward to 2006, when so much has been written recently about high-profile Republicans playing the race card. Conrad Burns, George Allen, the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee, Joe Lieberman and Pat Buchanan have all done it, some personally, others through their campaign apparatus.

Joe Klein believes it is the handiwork of Karl Rove:

Rove has shown a positive genius for organizing campaigns around poisonous trivia. He will question the patriotism of Democrats (and, once again, be aided by those on the noisome left who believe that the U.S. is a malignant, imperialistic force in the world). He will deploy an ugly, stone-throwing distortion of Christian "values," especially against those Democrats who choose not to discriminate against homosexuals. And if things get really desperate, he will play the race card, as Republicans have ever since they sided against the civil rights movement in the 1960s.

For a political operation that loves to say "up" is "down" and "war" is "peace," this makes perfect sense and actually plays to their advantage. You can hear it now: the Republican party is the party that believes in strong moral values like, you know, honesty.

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