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December
20, 2002, 1:20 p.m.
In
the Clear
It’s the
Dems who have the race problem now.
By Michael
Graham
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a conservative, southern Republican who believes it's possible to oppose
both affirmative action and the KKK, my Christmas wish was for Trent Lott
to write himself out of the picture. Today I am singing the Hallelujah
chorus.
As many other NRO
commentators have noted, we conservatives are on the verge of winning
the issue of race. Liberals—sadly, led by black Democrats—are more race
obsessed today than any group of Americans since the white Conservative
Citizen’s Councils of the 1960s." The Democrats reliance on race-based
politics is making voters across the political spectrum uncomfortable,
including black voters suffering under "outrage fatigue" after
decades of Jackson, Sharpton, and Farrakhan.
In the past, conservative
Republicans couldn't take advantage of these conditions because we were
the party of Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond. In January, that will change.
When conservatives rallied their ranks to throw Trent Lott overboard,
they highlighted this change.
For 40 years, there
are two kinds of white conservatives: Those for whom the phrases "federalism,"
"state's rights," "individual accountability," and
"color-blind society" were code words used to keep alive Strom-style
segregation; and those of us for whom these ideals are guiding principles
that we earnestly believe will make a better America for all.
The demise of Trent
Lott is the final nail in the coffin of the Confederista movement inside
the GOP. Joy to the world!
—
Radio talk-show host Michael Graham is author of Redneck
Nation: How the South Really Won the War.
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