I’ve found that concept to be the most useful and telling judge of what the Democrats are up to. Any time they make some crazy, non-sensical accusation about what the Republicans are up to, closer examination inevitably reveals that it’s a massive case of projection, with Democrats engaging in (or wishing they had the power to engage in) the very practices they are accusing the Republicans of.

I’ve witnessed the steady unraveling of the Democratic party in Alabama throughout my voting years. It started when the party bosses took the nomination away from Charlie Graddick. (Superdelegates in the current presidential race ring any bells?) In a group rejection, conservative Alabama Democrats crossed lines to vote in Guy Hunt, the first Republican governor of Alabama since reconstruction.

Hunt, in an effort to save the taxpayers money, asked for donations for the inaugural ball. Donations vastly exceeded cost. On the advice of his lawyers, Hunt (a rather personally poor minister) used the excess to pay off campaign debts. On these grounds, the Alabama ethics commission managed to get a (Democrat) judge, in Montgomery, to convict Hunt, which conveniently put the Democrat Lt. Governor into power. At the time, most of the Alabama judicial system was vastly Democrat. There was some rather questionable instructions from the judge to the jury that various layers of appeals in the Alabama system ignored.

BTW, the initial case with the ethics commission was launched on behalf of a Mobile area individual, supposedly a Republican donor to the inaugural ball fund. It came out later that this supposed Republican donor had some close ties to Mobile Democrats and his party registration was ambiguous. Sound familiar?

The Alabama voters response to this was rather telling. The earlier votes for Hunt became GOP party registrations. The judiciary, which is elected, got steadily replaced (until the Roy Moore fiascos blunted the trend).

Meanwhile, the fact that every Democratic governor since Wallace’s last hurrah engaged in blatant funneling of taxpayer money to their cronies was routinely ignored by the Alabama ethics commission. (Not excusing Wallace here. I simply don’t have any evidence to put him in the same group, and doubt he needed that kind of blatant vote buying, anyway.) Siegelman’s only distinguishing feature in this regard was that he was caught.

Now, it is not hard to understand why the Democrats are sure that Republican prosecuters would go after Siegelman on trumped up charges. It is precisely what Democrats would do. It is precisely what they *did*, the last time they thought they had the smallest of openings.

Or to make a long story short, this is the oft-cited Democrat projection, all over again. I apologize for the length of this little jaunt down memory lane, but now you know the real reason why moderate Alabama voters are more firmly GOP than their counterparts in GA, TN, and MS.

Iím glad the shoddy MSM product is losing market share.

Try to imagine what would have occurred if Jack Welch attempted to seriously reform NBC. He would have almost certainly been a victim of a slander campaign complaining how corporate interests are trying to destroy the independence of saintly journalists.

My solution? Cut them loose. Reform or die!

But 60 Minutes is CBS, not NBC. CBS is owned by Sumner Redstone’s company, National Amusements

For me its not so much “Bush Fatigue” that I’m weary of – I will miss the man, his leadership, and his basic decency – but it will be a relief to leave the absolute friggin’ LUNACY of his detractors behind. Seven years of this crap is a lot to take – and even more reason to respect his resolve and strength in the face of vicious, senseless hatred. What will they all do with their time?