He makes some reasonable points in Slate, but then there’s this passage:

National Review writers Jonah Goldberg and Ramesh Ponnuru, among others, think Republicans really would win strategically by losing this election (or, if you prefer, lose by winning it). These conservatives tend to fixate on how popular Republicans would be fighting off lefty hate-figures, including would-be Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and the putative committee chairmen John Conyers, Charles Rangel, and Alcee Hastings. (It is entirely coincidental that three of the GOP’s four favorite bogeymen are black.)

Follow his links. Goldberg mentions Pelosi, Conyers, Hastings, and Henry Waxman. I mentioned Pelosi and ”liberal committee chairman.” Neither of us mentioned Rangel. But what if we had? The fact is that Conyers, Rangel, and Hastings would be very liberal chairmen of important committees. And the fact that Hastings was removed from the federal bench for corruption, and that Rangel has recently said he doesn’t want any of Bush’s tax cuts extended, make them stick out further. Are conservatives not supposed to mention that they would be liberal commitee chairmen because they’re black?