By BaxterGee, how much work do you think David Duke's had done? He's a veritable doppleganger for Richard Chamberlain these days.
But we digress. What we cats really mean to talk about this morning is a continuing problem that the Republican Party is wrestling with in Palm Beach County, Florida.
See, a 19-year-old white supremacist was elected to the party's county executive committee — before anybody in GOP circles realized who he was. Now, the lad — Derek Black, the son of a former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard — is fighting to take his seat when the committee meets this Wednesday. Meanwhile, the embarrassed Republicans say he's not welcome.
Joining the fray is Mr. Duke, another former KKK grand wizard (pictured above — or at least, what's left of him after all that plastic surgery).
The best part of this entire kerfuffle is that the Republican county chairman, Sid Dinerstein, is Jewish. So you can imagine the insults that are flying his way from his new little KKK friends. We hope that Mr. Dinerstein learns his lesson: that the Republican Party — which exploits divisions among Americans and gladly makes room for haters and bigots — is no place for Members of the Tribe.
Ah, well. Sid probably won't take that lesson quite to heart. But at least he and his executive committee might now understand the consequences of getting caught with your pants down on the grass-roots organizing level.
As for us cats, we can only describe our feelings in the original German: Schadenfreude!
(Photo: Brandon Kruse / The Palm Beach Post)
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