Blog Post Title of the Week

... is this one from Ed Driscoll: In The Future, Everyone Will Be A Klansman For 15 Minutes.

Support for the Tea Party folks now surpasses support for the president. While that might come as no surprise for the deranged folk who see racism everywhere, it makes me wonder about the tactical reasoning behind the accusation. Somewhere there is a set of Democratic strategists reading polls and conducting focus groups that is suggesting that this is a good idea*. I wonder if the polls suggest that blacks are starting to reconsider allegiance with the Democrats. If they dropped to only 60-70% support for Democrats, it would be an almost unrecoverable blow for them and many, many elections would be lost. It would seem that the best way to keep them in the fold would be to keep screaming that outside of the Democratic party, there are hobgoblins and demons that will devour your soul.

* - On the other hand, it's entirely possible that the grown-ups in the Democratic party are begging their politicians to cut it out because all these accusations of racism are just killing them.