Beware Miscegenation Nation

Lisa Schriffren , who knows a lot about Pennsylvania voters, explains that the colored guy just can't win:

Mark is right. It is clear that Obama can't win the Reagan Democrats — for reasons that are cultural rather than specifically racial. The consensus on cable is that there will be massive defections of Hillary voters to McCain in November if Obama is the nominee.

In fact, if anybody knows where race:

Obama and I are roughly the same age. I grew up in liberal circles in New York City — a place to which people who wished to rebel against their upbringings had gravitated for generations. And yet, all of my mixed race, black/white classmates throughout my youth, some of whom I am still in contact with, were the product of very culturally specific unions. They were always the offspring of a white mother, (in my circles, she was usually Jewish, but elsewhere not necessarily) and usually a highly educated black father. And how had these two come together at a time when it was neither natural nor easy for such relationships to flourish? Always through politics. No, not the young Republicans. Usually the Communist Youth League. Or maybe a different arm of the CPUSA. But, for a white woman to marry a black man in 1958, or 60, there was almost inevitably a connection to explicit Communist politics. (During the Clinton Administration we were all introduced to then U. of Pennsylvania Professor Lani Guinier — also a half black/half Jewish, red diaper baby.)

.....intersects with culture, it would the woman who wrote Dan Quayle's Murphy Brown speech:

In modern America taking on a popular TV character, even a fictional one, is politically more precarious than taking a clear stand on a substantive campaign issue. And yet the Vice President dared to argue last week in a San Francisco speech that the Los Angeles riots were caused in part by a "poverty of values" that included the acceptance of unwed motherhood, as celebrated in popular culture by the CBS comedy series Murphy Brown. The title character, a divorced news anchorwoman, got pregnant and chose to have the baby, a boy, who was delivered on last Monday's episode, watched by 38 million Americans. "It doesn't help matters," Quayle complained, when Brown, "a character who supposedly epitomizes today's intelligent, highly paid professional woman" is portrayed as "mocking the importance of fathers, by bearing a child alone, and calling it just another 'life-style choice.' "

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Other critics suspected that the Vice President's remarks fit into a calculated strategy to suggest that L.A.'s rioters, who were mostly black and Hispanic, have in common with feminists and other Democrats a shoddier moral standard than nice people (who therefore should vote Republican). But Quayle denied any such intention, and the subsequent flip-flopping by the White House looked anything but calculated. Press secretary Marlin Fitzwater at first criticized Murphy Brown for "the glorification of life as an unwed mother," then later told reporters that the TV character was "demonstrating pro-life values which we think are good." That in turn brought an angry denial from Quayle, who, in some backpedaling of his own, insisted that he had "the greatest respect" for single mothers.

Put it all together and it is obvious that Reagan Democrats fear an America overrun by elitist mochachino commie bastards.

¡Bonus Lisa! (writing about Hillary Clinton):

Until this year I always dismissed the idea that she had really given up anything at all to marry Bill, live in Arkansas and get to the White House as FL. She was so deeply and clearly not a natural politician that the idea of her succeeding on her own steam in some other state has always seemed preposterous. But, lo and behold, this campaign has had transformational properties. Perhaps the sheer fact of having to get out there day after day to meet Americans, has humanized her, and helped her learn how to relate to citizens from different demographic swathes than her own narrow one. She may have learned a thing or two from them along the way, about their deeper values. (Barak surely has learned nothing of that.)

Oh dear, a dazzling urbanite like Ms. Schiffren understands the deeper values of common Americans living in the hinterlands in a way that Barack Obama never will.

In the immortal words of Mona Lisa Vito:

It's called disclosure, you dickhead.

Oh yeah, you blend.

Even more Lisa at Roy's place. One imagines Schiffren going through life with her nose crinkled up as if the whole world smells of onions.