Taxation and 'post partisan' Politics

So much has been said about the political battles on the Democrat side of the ledger this year. While we have weighed in on various topics over the past few months as wide-eyed observers, it has frankly been really interesting and almost fun to see a party who plays racial games come to grips with it when played from within. Just as the party who has traded on sexist stereotypes has had to come to grips with the reality of their female candidate meeting another of their famed protected class, a black candidate.

From my seat, I could care less what color either of these candidates is nor their gender. But what really intrigues me is the characteriization going on within their own voters over these candidates. For example, because you are supposed to believe per the media the Barack Obama is the savior of the party, union voters who have long been for Hillary are now racist because there happens to be more of them who are white and middle class.


One need no more proof of this silliness then to follow the actions of DNC chair Dean. Every time his party in conjunction with the media acts sexist or racist, Dean blames a Republican. While that may work in the old world of no Iraq war, it won't cut it in this new post partisan world where everyone is looking at things in a new light. If you think Hillary is a racist because she is fighting to win a nomination that she thinks she still has a shot at(she is not by the way and I don't support her), you are wrong.


The problem here is that for far too long, the general media outlook is far too pedestrian for real people. Obama may be unattractive to many voters due to lack of experience, a naive world view or a set of policy positions that are just plain wrong. That doesn't make Hillary's supporters evil. It just makes them honest.

Tonight I watched an interview with Harry Reid on Fox where he lamented on how John McCain went astray, Apparently, he did it because he didn't sign on to Reid's partisan view of the world. That now makes him Bush-2 or 3. But that is far too simple minded. While I am not a McCain supporter(as I mentioned before I voted Romney for NJ), I find the concept of McCain as Bush as drivel.

The net is that any of these candidates can and should stand on their own merits. Hillary is a formidible candidate and still very much in play. Obama is the front runner and has real positions and ideas. And McCain is his own man. They all have their positives and negatives. Let's let them all play out.

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