Once again illustrating the essential racist character of the liberal-left, Michael Steele's election to the hitherto invisible RNC chairmanship has endowed it with a new, higher profile.
In Republican circles, Steele is considered to be smart, articulate and telegenic, albeit no political genius in the mold of Reagan, or strategy meister patterned after Newt Gingrich. He's a strong horse in the Republican stable for a Senator's seat or of course the RNC chair, and notably, would also be if he were lily white.
The Democrats don't see it that way, in fact, they can't see it that way.
Evil twins have certain identifying characteristics. For one thing, they lead parallel existences. Obama and Steele are roughly the same age—Obama is 47, Steele is 50. They were both rising stars in their respective state parties. And they both now lead their respective national parties. But whereas Obama was blessed with supreme good fortune—he won his first state Senate race on a ballot technicality, and his opponent for U.S. Senate was Alan Keyes—Steele was less lucky. A Republican in a Democratic state, he chose the worst year possible to run for Senate: 2006. And while Obama cruised through the cesspool of Chicago politics with hardly an ethical blemish, Steele is now fighting accusations that he misspent campaign funds. (Steele called the allegations "not true.")Evil twins also tend to have inverted moralities—or, in this case, politics. Whereas Obama favors government spending in the stimulus bill, Steele supports tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts. "Individual empowerment—that's how you stimulate the economy," he says. On social issues, Steele has been reliably conservative, with the occasional exception. "I am philosophically the polar opposite of the man," Steele said of Obama in 2008.
Author Christopher Beam forgot to mention the most important distinguishing characteristic for these evil twins--they're black. How else to equivocate between the POTUS and a lowly RNC chair?
Nevertheless, its a good analysis of their other similarities and differences, which highlight the extreme culture polarization between regular Americans and the boutique socialists in the elite media, academic and high political circles.
Republican political culture reflects the essential American frontier spirit that worships at the altar of freedom and opportunity. We celebrate individual accomplishment and accept the price of failure that everyone who is truly extraordinary must pay. Not so the liberte, eqalite, fraternite crowd. Obama's near effortless rise is their ideal--no hassle, no grunt-work, just princely grace in moving from plaudit to accolade. Steele is somehow distasteful for actually losing his Senate race.
Actually, he's an "evil twin" for a more fundamental reason. In a gubernatorial debate during his campaign for Gov. Ehrlich, Kennedy-Townsend operative were tossing around Oreo cookies, making the none-to-subtle inference that Steele wasn't authentically black. That is apparently the unforgivable sin among Democrats--black people succeeding without handouts from their political masters (or Messiahs...). Steele went to John Hopkins on scholarship, graduated, entered the Seminary, exited the Seminary, went to law school, got a job in a prestigious law firm which demonstrated the supremacy of his attorney skills over his racial token value by sending him to Tokyo and London for extended periods and finally establishing his own successful business and legal consulting firm, the Steele Group.
Its just so EVIL!
The contrast between the feckless Barack Obama and Michael Steele is just too much a threat to the Democrats prized grip on the black vote. If blacks actually do embrace the American spirit, it would be bad, but not for them of course.
