Uppity

The Clinton (previously known as the Democratic Party as an organisation) simply assumes the black vote, though for no apparent reason, since Clinton's own treatment of blacks called eerily to mind what a George Wallace Presidency would have been like if it had ever happened. The Clinton simply cannot believe that a person of dusky hue would be so uppity (undoubtedly the word used) as to wish to become President in his own right.

Likewise, the thrice-married, pro-abortion, culturally Episcopalian but philosophically agnostic supporters of same-sex "marriage" who run the Republican Party simply assume the rural and suburban white Evangelical vote, though for no apparent reason, since they have never done the slightest thing in any of the causes dear to such hearts (quite the reverse, in fact), and since their economic policies hit the rural and suburban white Evangelical constituency even as hard as they hit the urban white Catholics and the blacks. The Republican Party machine simply cannot believe that a rural white Evangelical would be so uppity (undoubtedly the word used) as to wish to become President in his own right.

Which of these two uppity candidates is better? Well, the person of dusky hue doesn't actually have any policies, so removing him would be a walkover for the Republicans in 2012. Whereas the rural white Evangelical wants to help the poor and keep out of wars, and could only be removed in 2012 by a proper Democrat who re-created the coalition of the working and middle classes, black and white, English-speaking and Christian, across America's cities, suburbs and countryside: economically populist, morally and socially conservative, and opposed equally to coercive utopianism and world government and to isolationism and laissez faire.

Thanks to the corporate media blackout, the hope of John Edwards in 2008 is fading fast. If you want John Edwards in 2012 (when, as much as anything else, his own trajectory towards that position will be complete), then vote for Mike Huckabee this year. Go on. Be uppity.