Desperate Dems Exposed

Mark Levin said, "Liberalism is the philosophy of the stupid."

Now that he has started blogging at National Review Online, I suspect Levin will exhibit the veracity of that statement many times over.

The timing couldn't be better. Levin is a brilliant man and extremely entertaining as well. He effortlessly exposes the Left's hypocrisy.

On Tuesday, he discussed the Dems' shameless accusations that Judge Alito was a bigot, the type of garbage that reduced Mrs. Alito to tears yesterday.

Levin wrote:

We knew it was coming; that is, the attempt to impugn Sam Alito by using the race card against him.

...Ironically, the party that defended slavery in the 19th century and segregation for much of the 20th century is the Democrat party. The governors who stood in schoolhouse doorways were all Democrats. The segregationist senators who filibustered the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts were all Democrats. The party that elected former Klansman Bob Byrd as its leader in the Senate for a decade was the Democrat party.

These are just some of the highlights of the Democrat party’s embrace of racism. That’s certainly not to say that every Democrat is a racist, or every Democrat during these periods was a racist. Indeed, many fought their own party. Many were involved in championing abolition and civil rights. But that’s not the point. The argument proffered by Patrick Leahy and Ted Kennedy, among others, makes no such distinction

During today’s Alito hearings, Leahy’s smear went something like this: Alito’s membership in a college group, in which an individual member wrote an absurd article about blacks, taints Alito as a racist. This is contemptible demagoguery, no matter how many times the Democrats use it against Republican judicial nominees.

For example, Ted Kennedy’s father was sympathetic to Adolf Hitler while he served as Franklin Roosevelt’s ambassador to Britain. Joseph Kennedy opened back-channels to the Third Reich. He was openly anti-Semitic. FDR had to recall him from his post. Now, what does that say about Ted Kennedy? Nothing — unless, of course, we adopt the smear by association tactics used against Alito. Indeed, Kennedy, Leahy, and every Senate Democrat who voted repeatedly for Bob Byrd to serve as their leader — a post he held for 12 years — is what, a pro-KKK racist? That’s absurd and offensive.

It’s hard to believe that the party that so abused race in the past is doing so again today. It’s also sad that the major media carry this message as if it has some legitimacy. To my knowledge, not a single mainstream journalist has shown the courage to condemn this disgraceful farce. Where’s Edward R. Murrow when you need him?

As Levin points out, the Dems have a long history of questionable behavior on racial matters.

Some Dem Judiciary Committee members' efforts to paint Alito as a racist, given their on the record endorsement of ex-klansman Robert Byrd, makes their smears particularly shameful.

Moreover, the Dems' decision to borrow from Joe McCarthy's playbook and use the guilt by association tactic, only serves to reveal their desperation. The fact is the Dems have nothing on Alito, so they've come up with absolutely ridiculous charges against.

The Dem strategy to utilize dirty methods to carry out their baseless attacks in order to plant doubts about Alito in the minds of Americans compounds the damage.

Read Levin's thoughts about Alito's involvement in the Vanguard case, "Mutual Concerns."

The Dems didn't call for Justice Ginsburg to recuse herself from a case that involved companies in which her husband had investments.

Double standard -- Silence on Ginsburg and uproar over Alito; excuses for libs and outrage for conservatives.

Once again, the Dems are discredited by their own hypocrisy.