re: #247 Sol Berdinowitz

“True Conservatism” comes with a serious litmus test these days: dismantle government agencies, ban abortion, restrict contraception, etc…, so that part of it is not hard.

And many of them simply claim that he was an Affirmative Action case. Which I might even understand when it came to getting into law school, but not in becoming editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Conservatives should be glad to have the chance to say to any minority member that there are no longer any barriers to advancement to anone of any race or religion who is prepared to work hard.

But somehow, I don’t think that is a big priority with them.

I’ve come to believe their anti-Obama fetish comes from being totally gobsmacked when he won in 2008. In their hearts of hearts, they were convinced there was no way the American public would vote a black guy into the White House, given the alternative of a former POW/longtime Senator and a Christian “soccer mom”. When he won, one leading reaction was and still is that Obama somehow rigged the election. Another reaction is the continuing efforts to deny he was even legally permitted to run, much less serve as president, because he’s not “really” an American.

It’s the same attitude that had people convinced that Romney was a shoo-in (even Romney believed that, it seems), despite all the polls indicating it was probably going to be a tight race, with Obama leading.

In other words, they were clueless then, and they’re still clueless now. Most of the American public now could give a rat’s ass whether the president is white or black. What he says and what he stands for are more important than his skin color or ethnic background.