Herman Cain a "strong, conservative black man"?

From Clifford F. Thies:


The omnipresent Ann Coulter has come to the defense of Herman Cain. "Liberals," she says, "are terrified of strong, conservative black men."

This may be a true statement, but what about "strong, conservative white men," "strong conservative yellow men," and "strong conservative Hispanic men regardless of race"?

What does color or national origin have to do with it? (Or, for that matter, maleness, if Ann meant by "men" adult persons who are male, as opposed to meaning adult persons of either gender.)

Consider the following statement by a reliably left-wing commentator on CNN, in defense of Michelle Obama: "No, I think what you have is you've got some weak men on the conservative side who, frankly, don't like strong women."

Conservatives don't like strong women like ... Sarah Palin? Or, Michelle Bachman? Or, Nikki Haley? Or, Susana Martinez?

Back in the day when I was in college, I was on the intercollegiate debate team at St. John's. In the regional championship tournament, my team met a team from Braindeis. One of the two members of the opposing team was blind. I noticed this when he got up to speak and was reading the notes he had been taking during my speech, on 3 by 5 inch cards, on his braille typewriter. I thought, my goodness, we don't want to look like bullies debating this team being as one of them is blind.

Then it occurred to me, his team was kicking my team in the ass, and him in particular. There he was, reading his note cards two lines at a time, a finger on one card sliding left and a finger on the other card sliding right, while he was arguing points.

It was then that I learned to hate strong, blind men.

Of course, I would have loved the guy if he was on my team.

Isn't that what's going on with "strong black conservative men" and "strong women" like Michelle Obama? It's who's on your team and who's on the other team.