OK, so I changed my mind. Sue me.

I don't disagree with Eugene Robinson's assessment (check out the link below), but I would have been much, much harder on Westmoreland and the GOP. This kind of overt bigotry deserves a flamethrower in response, not Robinson's mildly sarcastic rejoinder. This should (but won't), however, cure one reflexive media habit, and that is recoiling in mock horror when someone like Howard Dean has the "uppityness" to call the Republican Party "The White Party." Anyone who disagrees must have surely not been paying attention. Statements like these and the ethnic makeup of the crowd at the Xcel center in St.