Congratulations, Racists! PA to Hillary!

… or so would Nora Ephron’s line of reasoning be as revealed in piece here she penned for HuffPo yesterday.

Perhaps along with condescension we can lump-in contempt as an affliction suffered by the liberal-Left elite that run the Democratic Party.

In the article, Ephron bemoans the fact that the election has become solely about gender and race. And in case you doubted the heartfelt-ness of this assessment, she puts her personal stamp of irony on the PA primary by stating:

“This is an election about whether the people of Pennsylvania hate blacks more than they hate women. And when I say people, I don't mean people, I mean white men.”

Some other gems:

“white men cannot be relied on, as all of us know who have spent a lifetime dating them.”
Still not over Carl Bernstein dumping her 30+ yrs. ago… but having no such practical experience in the matter of which she speaks here, we’ll take her word on it.

and this:

“As for the Democratic hope that McCain's temper will be a problem, don't bet on it. A lot of white men have terrible tempers, and what's more, they think it's normal.”
Anecdotal stereotyping over empirical data is always the foundation of any astute political analysis. Besides, we prefer to think of it as “passion” or “pricipled conviction”, toots.

Anyway, this isn’t some fringe kook or a ‘Kos diarist… this is the establishment of the Democratic Party emoting this raw bile and spiteful contempt and this is the sort of “mainstream” logic that will be on full display during the general election and why it is that despite Obama’s unsavory associations, McCain will fare much better against Clinton than Obama in the general.

Quick note: Michael Barone on the telly this evening said that the exit polling was overrepresenting Obama’s actual poll results. The Bradley effect will be something to keep an eye come November should he be the Democratic representative.

PA primary result story here