"Sheets" Byrd returns to his roots

Kevin McCullough makes an interesting observation:

[T]he KKK's very own Robert Byrd - senior Senator from West Virginia is [stalling the confirmation of] one of the most accomplished African American females to ever walk the planet.

That's right folks - Democrats=Racists - the party of diversity - as long as your white, liberal, and powerful...

Ouch.

But it's also true. Today's Democrat Party does not champion minority interests, but instead exploits minorities as vote hoards and propaganda props. Their vested interest isn't in lifting up blacks but in keeping them down as much as possible because emancipation from dependence on, and tutelage of, government would free them from Democrat influences. And that would drive the Party even further into the minority, perhaps far enough to threaten its very political viability on the national level.

This fear is what fuels their despicable sliming of distinguished minorities like Justice (perhaps soon to be Chief Justice) Clarence Thomas, the aforementioned Dr. Rice, Attorney-General in waiting Alberto Gonzales, and future SCOTUS Justice (if justice is ultimate served) Miguel Estrada. What they all have in common besides their personal and professional excellence is that they are conservative, and thus are living refutations of the left-wing group grievance ethic. Once elevated to prominence, they can only influence other hyphenated-Americans into independent thinking, and thus away from what the President referred to in last fall's debates as "the far left bank of the American mainstream." And so, having learned their lesson from the Thomas debacle, where a vicious smear still failed to keep him off the SCOTUS, they now take no chances, denying elite illiberal minority candidates even full Senate consideration whenever possible on flimsy grounds that they would denounce as racist if anybody else were to employ them.

It doesn't make Donks racists per se (though Byrd may be an exception); but it does make them roaring hypocrites, as they are on pretty much every other issue. And certainly no friend of "non-whites."

What I can't get over is the symbolism. Bleeding Christ, I know none of these people are Bill Clinton, but does it really require even a beginner's grasp of public relations to see what a frigging disastrous image is created when an ex-Klansman, a veritable Grand Exalted Imperial Omnipotent Stomper, delays a black woman's confirmation to be the nation's chief diplomat and besmirches her character in the process? It couldn't be any starker if Karl Rove had engineered it himself.

This isn't political tone-deafness; it's political tone-death.