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By HeavyM Posted in User Blogs — Comments (9) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »

There's something I've been saying for awhile now, and how the Democratic Party has chosen to respond to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina just furthers my point.

We cannot afford to nominate George Allen or Mitt Romney as our candidate in 2008.  Why?  Because of race issues.

I do not believe either one of these men is racist.  At all.  Period.  However, the Dems will have some mighty nice looking ammunition to load their guns with if these fellows get the nod.

Allen owns two things that make his run problematic: a noose and a confederate flag.  Already, lefties are salivating at the thought of using them against him in a national election.  The noose symbolizes his tough stance on crime, and the confederate flag is a symbol of heritage for a non-Yankee.  However, Dems have already begun making it out to look like these items prove Allen is a racist.  The confederate flag may play well in VA and other southern states, but it will hardly play well on the national stage.

And Mitt Romney, as many have discussed prior, is a devout Mormon - a religion that many think has been tainted by racism in the past.  Again, I don't think Romney is racist, but the way the Dems play their cards will make it look like he is one.  Old traditional Latter-Day-Saint teaching (in the 1800s) said that if black people were converted into Mormonism, they would become white over time as they were purified. Blacks were denied access to the temple and the LDS priesthood until after the Civil Rights movement in the United States.  Using these three things, Romney will be made out to be a racist.  And before you say that no respectable Dem opponent would dare use his religion against him in public, remember the result of the beautiful CFR bill -- 527s now attack at will.

Neither one of these things would be an issue whatsoever, if things were different on a national stage.  It should be easy enough to prove Allen and Romney are not racist.  Unfortunately, these things play right into the Dems' hands.  When popular musicians are saying "Bush doesn't care about black people," and everyone from Howard Dean to Mary Landrieu is saying that the GOP is racist against blacks, the tone has been set.  It is, unfortunately, conventional wisdom that the party of Lincoln tends to favor the white folks.

We've seen attempts to reverse this -- i.e. Colin Powell, Condi Rice, Clarence Thomas, etc.  However, the drumbeat from the left is too loud, and they're gonna keep banging away.  After all of the efforts by the GOP, Bush still only captured 9% of the African American vote in '04.  Dems know if they lose the African-American vote, they lose every election from here on out.  So they have to keep lying about the GOP to keep their votes.

I think Allen or Romney would make an all right President, I really do. I have a feeling others would, too, if they were nominated.  However, even if they won't admit it when asked in a poll, if the Dems make the charges loud enough and long enough, the residual effect will be the absence of African-American voters from the GOP for years to come.

Just as in my thread about why McCain cannot be our nominee, I'm sure some of you will ask who I'd like to see win the nomination.  And just as in my previous thread, I'll tell you that it's evolving day-to-day.  But it usually involves three people in some shape or fashion: Mark Sanford, Tim Pawlenty, and Condi Rice.  If I were forced to pick a ticket right now, I'd offer up Sanford/Rice as a strong combo.

And we've had dozens of polls on this site about who you want to see win the nomination in '08, so I'm going to start a different one here: who would you like to see tipped for the Veep slot in three years?

Have fun.