Reply #14: Conservatives nationwide are making it a top priority [View All]

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Tough talk

Conservatives nationwide are making it a top priority to see that Ken Blackwell, Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State, is elected governor next year.

FrontPageMag.com, an influential conservative web site, runs a commentary arguing that “leftists” find Mr. Blackwell “particularly dangerous because he’s a socially conservative African American — an evangelical Christian — who is becoming ever more popular with voters.”

The commentary, by Tom Minnery, vice president of government and public policy for the aggressively conservative Focus on the Family, argues that criticism of Mr. Blackwell by Democrats such as the Rev. Jesse Jackson and Rep. Maxine Waters amounts to pure racism.

“It’s no less ugly when it’s practiced by blacks rather than by whites,” Mr. Minnery writes. “The last time the country saw racism this naked was in the battle to keep Clarence Thomas off the Supreme Court. Blackwell, like Thomas, risks political lynching because he has strayed from the plantation of liberal black politics and espouses socially conservative ideas, like traditional marriage.”...