“Become a Democrat - It’s easier than having to think”

Let me get this straight…the article basically says he’s bad simply because he’s white and he’s a Southerner and he’s the racist? I thought we were supposed to have gotten over judging people by the color of their skin?

“By elevating Chicago machine politician Sen. Barack Obama to their top spot on the Democrat Party ticket, Democrats have selected their Dear Leader: a utra-liberal black man who has drawn fire for association with radical terrorists and lunatic preachers in the past.”

This is how they introduced TheOne as nominee, no?

Maybe THEN we could hold claim to being the ‘non-racist’ party. :/

Politico - chumps, tools, small and bitter people.

As for the second charge - again, context matters. But I can tell you one damned thing - the NAACP shoved down the throats of the American people and a totally gutless US Congress in 2006 an unconstitutional forced-gerrymandering bill under the name of re-authorizing the Voting Rights Act. We can only hope that the Supreme Court strikes parts of it down - and in my opinion, the actions of the NAACP were, in fact, un-American in that context, because the ends were political rather than promotion of civil rights. And one needn’t go any farther than the ACLU’s efforts with respect to GITMO detainees to see activity that one can legitimately argue undermines our security as a nation - and thus, could be labeled “un-American.”

I’m so sorry!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

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has been tellin lies to Politico and they been drinking obama kool-aid forever.
Stand up American before obama and his thugs get us middle class taxpayers killed.

What is the purpose of Politico? They are a left-leaning political news site with basically the same content as cnnpolitics, or A Mess NBC.com, except poorer quality. I could see it if they were a straight-down-the-middle, bi-partisan site. They would actually be filling a niche. But as it is now, there is absolutely no reason for me to go there. I have to wonder how they stay afloat. It can’t be ad revenue.

why aren’t liberals happier?

Pretty new to RedState, and I haven’t posted but a couple of times-I’m more of a “read and learn” type; however, when I read your post, I had to say thank you for standing up for Senator Sessions! I am an Alabamian, and we are not always fond of our politicians here, but one I have been able to get behind and whom I believe to be a good man is Jeff Sessions. When I vote for someone, I like to think they’ll truly represent me and I wasn’t mistaken when I chose to vote for Sen. Sessions-he’s a hard worker and someone who I believe really listens to the people of Alabama. The hit piece by Politico only confirms my good judgment! Again, great post!

Is getting to be a crutch lazy writers seem to love to use to prove whatever point they want.
““Sessions will help galvanize and crystallize why we need a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate,” a Democratic senator, speaking on the condition of anonymity, told POLITICO Tuesday.”

Yeah? Well a Democrat senator told ME under the same condition of anonymity that nobody ever told Politico that, and in fact they made it up.
Raise and call.

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If they weren’t, they’d have gone on record.

Tell me how “he’s racist” will convince a populace already well-worried of a filibuster proof Senate that a filibuster proof Senate is a good idea?

And just how is a racism circus in 2009 going to still burn hot in 2010?

Look, they’ve already picked off all the easy seats–there’s no Republicans in blue states that have enough liberal and black voters to be cowed into voting against the incumbent because another member of the party has been accused of being a racist; that calculation has already been built into their previous election.

No, this is about scaring Republicans in Republican states because–even after this last cycle–not one has stood up and dared challenge them when they whip out the racism card.

Any Republican stupid enough to fall for this ought not call themselves a Republican (I’m looking at you Colin Powell/Meghan McCain).

On another note: Read the comments; they have no interest in facts or reality–they’ve taken the hint and run back down Crazy Street. To them, Sessions is a slave-owing, through-and-through racist. Just like all Republicans.

The main issue against Sessions in 1986 was not an off-hand joke about the KKK (though that silly issue was discussed), but was his prosecution of civil rights workers–including an aide to Martin Luther King Jr.– who came to Alabama to register black voters. He pursued the case very aggressively and then it all came apart when he went to trial, because he never had much evidence. He also said in his confirmation hearing that he thought the 1965 Voting Rights Act was intrusive. An argument can be made to support that position, but it’s very easy for that to come across as racist.

Also in his confirmation hearings, he offered as proof that he asn’t racist the fact that he had once shared a hotel room with a black man. Honestly, if you think you deserve brownie points for that…

The Senator from the great state of Alabama will be an excellent ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. I served as a staffer for the Senate Judiciary Committee for Senator Robert Smith of NH and found Senator Sessions to be a member who had the makings of a great Chairman or Ranking Member. Senator Sessions is a solid conservative who has evidenced a strong foundation in constitutional governance, therefore the left felt the need to launch a personal attack on the good Senator’s name. Roughing up Senator Sessions for statements from over 20 years ago without detailing all of his good work as a United States Senator is the functional equivalent of journalistic malpractice.

Jeff Sessions is basically being informed by the Washington Press Corps that if he causes any problems for Barack Obama’s judicial nominees (i.e. asks uncomfortable questions) his name is going to be dragged through the mud.

And it will not just stop with him. They’ll be going after his family too.

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 To me, “consensus” seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects … There are still people in my party who believe in “consensus” politics. I regard them as Quislings, as traitors … I mean it.
      - Margaret Thatcher
NOTE: “consensus” = “Bipartisanship™”/”Centrism™”

that everything would change with the ushering in of this post-racial, post partisan presidency.

But alas, we’re still just partisan racists. A conservative’s lot in life.

it seems very balanced and refutes all the charges of racism - i don’t understand what the author is talking about.

I love Senator Sessions, though is he from Alabama, I think he is one of the very few that have the country’s best interest in his heart and votes.
I applaud him and wish he was my senator. Politico is junk, never read it. It probably is one of the lib sites that threw Obama on the public that does not know enough to find out what the candidate will do, just fell in love with idea with hope and change.

It’s been over 100 days, I do not see any change in the politics of DC, most politicians care only about next election, not the great USA.

I believe 95% of the senators, reps, etc, all of them are corrupt, I do not see Jeff Sessions that way at all.