The problem with political parties
Political parties. Case in point is the SackSessions blog that was started a little while back. The header of the site says is all, “Sending an Alabama Democrat to the US Senate.”
I understand if you don’t like Sessions, he exhibits little autonomy and is only slightly less painful to listen to in interviews than George Bush with every second word being “uh” or “um.” He does have some redeeming qualities in my opinion, including strict fiscal discipline and a desire to level sentences for persons convicted of crack possession (primarily blacks) in line with those who are convicted of cocaine possession (primarily whites). I would actually much rather see a ShelveShelby site and get that pork barreling sun of a gun out of the Beltway, but his term doesn’t end until 2010.
The problem I have with the SackSessions theme is that they disdain Sessions simply because of his party affiliation and they simply want him replaced with some faceless Democrat - any Democrat. How about Larry Darby?
Currently, the state and national Dems are trying to turn Alabama Ag Commissioner Ron Sparks into a challenger for Sessions’ seat. They rolled Sparks out on the DailyKos - a huge tactical error in my opinion. Alabama remains a conservative state and introducing Sparks on a very liberal blog will likely be used against him in a campaign. The manufacturing of Sparks as a legitimate candidate (at this point) continued with one blog inexplicably saying that Sparks was “wildly popular.” I blog and try to follow state politics very closely and here was my lukewarm endorsement of Sparks for Ag Commissioner last year:
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
I, an informed voter, didn’t even know enough about him or his duties as Ag Commissioner to say anything more than that. How in God’s green earth can he possibly be “wildly popular?”
Now the anti-Sessions/pro-any-Dem crowd have taken to mocking Sessions’ physical attributes and making racially stereotypical comments (kudos to Lee).
I was meeting a friend for a quick bite when I spied the diminutive Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Munchkinland) dining with a group of no lipped whiteboys that looked to include his press guy and other staffers and/or lobbyists.
In our double standard society that is perfectly acceptable. Yes, it was a regurgitation of a Wonkette piece (for those of you who don’t know, Wonkette is a sharp, crude political blog), but it was obviously not posted with any recriminations for it’s content. Just imagine if the politician in question had been a black man and the person said something offensive like, “with a group of fat lipped black boys.” There would be hell to pay and we all know which two “reverends” would be on the airwaves.
But such is the nature of political parties. People check their own minds at the door when they join up.
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Larry Darby does appear to be the best candidate the Democratics can run. He is truly conservatice where Sessions is just a run of the mill Marxist tool.