This Day in Republican History 7/01/06

July 1, 1991 President George H. W. Bush appoints Clarence Thomas to U.S.Supreme Court; previously served on U.S. Court of Appeals and as Chairman of U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Clarence Thomas epitomizes one of the things liberals hate and fear most -- a black who has escaped the liberal plantation (Mr. Thomas' own words). Democrats really cannot understand how a black person can be both a Republican and a conservative, how a black person can reject their "help," stand up on two feet and look them in the eye and say he can make it on his own. Those blacks are shunned and vilified. Democrats don't believe minorities can make it without their help. And coincidentally, the more people who need the Democrats' help, the more powerful the Democrats become. As you may remember during his confirmation hearings, MSM pundits called Clarence Thomas “a colored lawn jockey for conservative white interests,” “race traitor,” “black snake,” “chicken-and-biscuit-eating Uncle Tom,” “house Negro” and “handkerchief head,” “Benedict Arnold” and “Judas Iscariot.” Liberal black columnist Carl Rowan compared Mr. Thomas to David Duke, saying " If you gave Clarence Thomas a little flour on his face, you'd think you had David Duke talking. " Rowan is typical of the vicious bigots on the left. Democrats have not changed at all from the days when they kept blacks in chains of iron, except now they try to keep them in chains of ideology, and those who try to break away are instantly excommunicated from the black race, accused of being a `white-thinking black,' an `Oreo cookie' or, at the very least, a foot-shuffling Uncle Tom. Black bloviator Julianne Malveaux said she hoped Clarence Thomas' wife feeds him lots of bacon and butter so he'd die early of a heart attack. Hmmm, that brings back memories of Condoleezza Rice's confirmation hearings. Do you see the pattern?