I predicted the GOP meltdown would occur yesterday. Two reasons it may not have happened include:
1) The party faithful are shellshocked
2) The party faithful can’t get a word in edge wise
3) The party faithful are biting their tongues until the press gets so bad that they have to say something.
Kadner offers up another missive against Keyes that will break down that restraint:
“I have also made it clear that while I believe that the descendants of slaves would be helped by this period of tax relief, my firm goal and ultimate objective is to replace the income tax, and thereby free all Americans from this insidious form of tax slavery.”
In other words, “Hey, you idiots, I wasn’t really going to give those descendants of slaves a thing, and you should have known that.”
If Keyes had his way, blacks would be exempt from paying a federal income tax that no longer existed.
Some people might call such a reparations plan deceptive and dishonest.
I simply find it laughable.
The conservative wing of the Republican Party brought Keyes to Illinois from Maryland to run for the Senate because they thought he was clever enough to debate Obama.
Yet the first time he tries to do something clever, the conservatives get so riled up that he has to explain himself.
Chances are that many white Republican voters will never get the message that Keyes was merely trying to play black voters.
And blacks probably never believed a word the guy was saying, given his reputation.
So maybe the guy isn’t as clever as some people thought.
But when I read the news release from Keyes, I laughed out loud.
That doesn’t happen very often in this game.
Maybe if conservatives explained their jokes more often liberals wouldn’t act as if the end of the world was always approaching.