Just Another Victim

By Kleinheider Posted on October 28, 2008 at 11:20 am

Steve Benan on the Tennessee Republican Party’s press release of yesterday that put a thwarted attempt to kill black Americans and assassinate a presidential candidate beside an overenthusiastic Democrat hanging Sarah Palin in effigy.

There’s an odd tendency in some far-right circles for conservatives to feel like they’re victims of some kind of persecution. The problem with this bizarre complex, though, is that a) it’s absurd; and b) it leads to ridiculous comparisons like this one from the Tennessee Republican Party. The statement seems to argue, “Sure, white supremacists planned a killing spree, but everyone should feel sorry for us because we’ve been targeted, too.”

The Tennessee GOP really sees a parallel between a crude piece of art, random vandalism, and a plot to kill more than a hundred children and a presidential candidate. In Robin Smith’s eyes, there’s some kind of equivalency between the three. This is pure madness.

This is, of course, the same Tennessee Republican Party that’s been so extreme in its vile attacks against Obama that McCain and GOP lawmakers felt the need to condemn them.

We’ll see if there’s any pushback against Robin Smith’s breathtaking press release.

(TFJ: Joe Powell)

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