I usually try to maintain a certain, minimal level of decorum with respect to some of the crazy lefties in Alabama, but sometimes it is hard.  At one time we had a Kos-esque site dedicated to overthrowing Senator Sessions.  When Ron Sparks choose not to run that little shop of humor decided to pack it up.  But let not your spirits sink at the prospect of no humorous leftist propaganda: there is still Left in Alabama.

Let’s take a stroll through some of the current stories there…

We’ll start with this post that underscores liberals obsession with race.  A candidate (Republican, of course) sent out a campaign flier with what was, quite frankly, run of the mill campaign propaganda nonsense.  There is prolific use of the word “liberal” to describe his opponent.  He denounces his opponent’s public sector career by portraying the work as “taxpayer funded,” unelected positions.  The intent to make the opponent appear to be a leech, surviving on the public dole is clear even if it is absurd; I know a great many virtuous government employees and the source of their paycheck does not diminish their character or aptitude.  However, the “taxpayer funded” line is most certainly not peculiar to this race.  The author of the blog post jumped to the conclusion that the flier was racist because the Republican candidate is white, while the Democrat challenger is black and interprested nearly every claim in the flier as having racist implications.

It bears noting that the GOP candidate, Wayne Willingham, has previous ties to groups of dubious repute with respect to race relations (to put it delicately).  Within that context one would be justified to judge the campaign literature a bit more critically.  But, that is not germane to this particular scenario because the author of the post had no prior knowledge of Willingham’s background that might have prejudiced him to seek out racist implications in the mailing – otherwise the author would have most certainly mentioned this given his penchant for spotting racial strife.  So what we have is a “progressive” Democrat getting a campaign glossy in the mail and assuming that because A) one candidate told prospective voters that he is better than the other candidate and B) the self proclaimed better candidate is white and the denounced candidate is black the literature must therefore be racist.  The author’s own fixation on race caused him to independently interpret a rather standard piece of campaign propaganda as racist.

Honestly, if you think that “And there is only one candidate to represent Cullman County,” really means, “Do you really want a lazy black guy representing Cullman County,” then you have problems.  What would the author think is reasonable language to use when campaigning against a minority opponent?  Can you not even suggest that you are the better candidate without being deemed a racist?

Now, bringing the context of Willingham’s prior (current?) associations into the situation…  The only aspect of the mailing that can be interpreted as playing on race would be the decision to include pictures of both candidates.  It is typical to put your picture on campaign literature and while it is not abnormal to put your opponent’s picture on an advert as well, I think there is a possibility that it was done in this case to make sure that Cullman County voters know the race of each candidate.  Let’s be honest, Cullman County is not exactly known for being on the leading edge of racial harmony.

Moving along, there is also the frantic post about the latest vote to sustain Bush’s SCHIP veto entitled “Republicans Hate Children.”  The statement is absurd on its face.  They refuse to even acknowledge the rationale for voting against the bill and refuting it, preferring instead to argue that Republicans hate children.  It is as ridiculous as the argument that Democrats hate the troops if they vote against a huge increase in defense funding even if they are wiling to support a more modest increase.  You really need to read some of the comments following the post to do their nuttiness justice, though.

More race interjection (seems to be a theme).  John Edwards says he is the best candidate for the entire country.  This is interpreted by the left as him saying that he is better because he is a white male.  What is funny is that Edwards went out of his way to disavow such a notion, which means he expected his leftist supporters to seek out race or gender subtext in his statement.  How prescient!  If he read Left in Alabama he would known better than to assert he is the best candidate.  If you’re running against a minority (or a woman) you cannot, under any circumstance, suggest you might be the better candidate.  If you do then you hate blacks and women.

The “progressives” also labeled one of the state’s major newspapers an “undercover arm of the Alabama Republican Party.”  Why?  Because the paper had the unmitigated gall of suggesting that it would be good if the GOP was successful in ousting some of the old guard “mossbacks” in the legislature.  The author of the post states that the Mobile Press-Register is beating “the same old horse of Paul Hubbert, AEA and 2 year colleges,” and that the Republicans “have ridden that horse as far as it will go and it’s starting to smell” on them.  Based on some of the details of former chancellor Roy Johnson’s plea deal with the Feds she has a point: something does stink.  But it isn’t the old, tired story.  It is the fresh details of the breath and depth of the corruption.  Considering the fixation that the Left in Alabama crew has on a single plane owned by a state agency (just look at the number of posts written about it) one might think that smoke would be coming out of their ears over all of the corruption, but then again this story mainly deals with Democrats.  Better to play ostrich.

That is just a small sampling of what you’ll find on the leading “progressive” Alabama blog.  Take some time and look around.  You’re sure to be amused.

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