New York Post updates us on the liberals’ latest example of their racism:
January 27, 2005—IT’S not just Republicans who are livid at how Democrats have ripped into Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice — so are plenty of black Democrats, who say their party now risks alienating its most loyal supporters.
It doesn’t help that Howard Dean — front-runner to be the new Democratic national chairman — cheered the anti-Rice crowd. Dean, after all, had to apologize last year for vowing to court guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks.
Nor does it help that Sen. Charles Schumer (Democrat-New York), who voted for Rice, nevertheless used the battle to send out a funDemocrat-raising e-mail for Senate Democrats featuring Sen. Barbara Boxer (Democrat-Calif.), who called Rice a liar.
The Dem attack on Rice was “very foolish” and “potentially costly” because it could backfire among blacks, said Democratic pollster Ron Lester, an expert on the African-American vote.
“A lot of African-Americans are watching this and they’re wondering why [Democrats] are going after her so hard. She has an exemplary record. She’s probably better qualified than most secretaries of state that we have had.”
Rice, who was confirmed yesterday as the first black female secretary of state, has a very favorable rating among blacks — 55 percent positive and only 15 percent negative, Lester said.
Another high-profile black Democrat was even more blunt, saying the attacks on Rice — featuring ex-Ku Klux Klan “kleagle” Sen. Robert Byrd (Democrat-West Virginia) — “made me sick to my stomach.”
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