Last Call for the Left

When the British Empire was at its peak there was a joke that the English when not understood by foreigners would just speak English more loud. Now the liberal message is failing and all they can do is say it more crassly.

Civil rights activist and NAACP Chairman Julian Bond delivered a blistering partisan speech at Fayetteville State University in North Carolina last night, equating the Republican Party with the Nazi Party and characterizing Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her predecessor, Colin Powell, as "tokens."

"The Republican Party would have the American flag and the swastika flying side by side," he charged.

The talk so infuriated at least one black family in attendance among the 900 in the auditorium that they got up and walked out in protest.

"He went on and on name calling," said Lee Wilson. "I walked out in the middle of his speech with my wife and three kids"

The harsh partisan rhetoric from Bond should not have surprised anyone who has followed him in recent years.

In July 2001, Bond said, "[Bush] has selected nominees from the Taliban wing of American politics, appeased the wretched appetites of the extreme right wing, and chosen Cabinet officials whose devotion to the Confederacy is nearly canine in its uncritical affection."

For years all a liberal had to do to turn people against an opponent was cry racist, fascist, male chauvinist or anything else on the liberal pejorative list and everyone would run for cover. Heady days for the left. The media covered their back and the protesters would be out in force. Those were intoxicating times, but all things come to an end.

Talk radio, Fox News and the Internet made it easy to hear an alternative voice. . The hypocrisy of the left could no longer be swept under the rug. Now even the most reliable constituency, African Americans is starting to drift away.

The bar is closed, it's time to go home Mr. Bond.

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