Superman Cometh

The man of Steele is headed for the U.S. Senate, and Maryland Democrats are frantically searching for something, ANYthing, that can serve as Kryptonite:

Two men associated with past campaigns that some regarded as racially objectionable are helping raise money for Republican Michael Steele's run for the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Maryland Senator Paul Sarbanes.

Maryland Democrats say the association could hamper Steele, the state's first black lieutenant governor, and his attempt to attract a portion of black voters to the Republican banner.

A fundraiser Thursday for the lieutenant governor's Senate campaign was thrown by Floyd Brown, producer of the Willie Horton advertisement, which helped scuttle the Democratic presidential bid of Michael Dukakis in 1988 by tying the Massachusetts governor to the release of a black convicted murderer serving a life sentence.

At an earlier event, Steele received money from Alex Castellanos, who was behind a "White Hands" ad used by then-Senator Jesse Helms in a 1990 election in North Carolina where he narrowly defeated black Democratic challenger, Harvey Gantt. The ad showed a pair of white hands tearing up a letter as the narrator said: "You needed that job...but they gave it to a minority." The advertisement drew scathing criticism from Democrats, who called it a blatant racist attack on Gantt....

Maryland Democrats say Steele should not be taking money from the men behind those ads.

"Why would he go for money to those who have done us harm?" asked Elbridge James, a former leader of the Montgomery County branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

By "us," James really means the Democrats, who display their arrogance once again in presuming to dictate fundraising sources to the other party's senatorial candidate, their condescension in pretending to give a damn what Lieutenant-Governor Steele's fundraising sources are, and their inadvertent generosity of spirit in once again going out of their way to highlight advertising ideas that have been most effectively used against them.

The Willie Horton ad was not about race, it was about crime, and how Michael Dukakis was adamantly soft on it. The "white hands" ad was not about race, it was about affirmative action which has become institutionalized, unconstitutional reverse-Jim Crow. Both ads were smack on the money, accordingly helped defeat the human qualude and Harvey Gantt, the Democrats know it, and that's why they reflexively try to smear them and the men who created them as "racist."

And now, by implication, the African-American GOP nominee. You know, the man who has been lampooned by lefties as "Simple Sambo," complete with minstrel, step&fetchit, mega-lipped blackface. But it's Steele who's the "racist."

His retort was letter-perfect:

"When I look across the aisle, I see a Democratic leader who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan," he said, referring to Democratic Senator Robert Byrd from West Virginia.... "That doesn't stop Democrats from taking his money," Steele said.

Maryland Donks are scared poopless of Michael Steele. And they should be.

[H/T: AmSpecBlog]