Demonic_ How the Liberal Mob Is Endangering America - Ann Coulter [94]
Even the Wallace vote wasn’t exclusively a segregationist vote. Not everything was about the blacks. Cold War hawks thought Nixon would be soft on communism—correctly—and the Democrats were complete pansies. The great World War II general Curtis LeMay—“Old Iron Pants”—was Wallace’s running mate. LeMay supported integration 100 percent, but he didn’t trust Nixon to be tough enough with the Russkies, so he turned down Nixon’s offer to join his ticket and ran with Wallace instead. LeMay was a Reaganesque Cold Warrior. With the slogan “Bombs Away!,” he was as bellicose toward communism as Goldwater had been in 1964—which explains Wallace’s winning a lot of the same states Goldwater won.
Southerners were not the only demographic that shifted party registration in reaction to the turmoil created by the Worst Generation. In 1972, the whole country became the South. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” was, in reality, a “landslide strategy.” If you look at the facts, Republicans have been so clearly right about everything, it’s frightening.
Now that the battle for civil rights has been won—the Southern Poverty Law Center is going to have to start placing monitors in people’s homes to ferret out an incident of racism—liberals have suddenly become mighty pugnacious on the matter of of racial equality. (The really great thing about yammering on and on and on, endlessly, day after day, year after year ad infinitum about race is that it pays such big dividends in easing tension between the races.) All these pretend-heroes of the civil rights movement self-righteously claim that any suggestion that size of government be cut is de facto racist. False, indeed preposterous, accusations of racism are just another way for liberals to whip up the mob.
Obama is hysterically defended from every little criticism as if liberals are at war with the Klan. You know, we could have really used them when Republicans actually were at war with the Klan. But back then, Democratic politicians were pandering to the segregationist mob. On the basis of—let’s see—nothing … liberals labeled the loose-knit group of Tea Partiers “racist.” They broadcast to America: You are not allowed to associate with Tea Partiers. We’ll let you off with a warning this time, but the next time you are caught agreeing with Tea Party people, you’re going to be called a racist, too.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, whose life history betrays little association with black people, fancies himself a hitherto unheralded hero of the civil rights movement. He is a scrupulous bean counter when it comes to the number of blacks at Tea Parties—as if some central Tea Party bureaucracy controls who shows up at their rallies. Inasmuch as blacks vote overwhelmingly Democratic, you wouldn’t expect to see a lot of them at Tea Parties. Still, the Tea Parties are not as white as Chris Matthews’s staff. They’re not as white as a Jon Stewart audience. They are not as white as Janeane Garofalo’s fans.
But night after night, Matthews accuses conservatives of harboring secret racist views, asking, “What are the Tea Partiers really angry about? Health care reform or the fact that it was an African-American president and a woman speaker of the House who pushed through major change?”39 When Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico endorsed Obama, Matthews called it a “stunning picture” to have a very white but technically Latino governor endorsing the half-black Obama.40 In a special tribute to his own post-racial attitude, after Obama’s first State of the Union address, Matthews announced, “You know, I forgot [Obama] was black tonight for an hour.”41
So we know Matthews is down with the brothers. Needless to say, he sends his own kids to white-as-snow private schools. Washington, D.C., is majority black, whereas St. Albans is