Racism watch: Recall petition against Cao (R, LA-02)

Fortunately, it won’t go anywhere, so the Democrats will have to try to win this seat back on their own, with no shenanigans. Note that even the AP isn’t buying the ‘ostensible’ reason for this:

NEW ORLEANS — Legal roadblocks will likely doom an effort launched this week to recall U.S. Rep. Ahn “Joseph” Cao, the Vietnamese Republican who scored a surprise December victory in a predominantly black, mostly Democratic New Orleans congressional district.

Still, the petition drive, started by two black ministers only weeks after Cao took office, demonstrates the challenges he’ll face if he seeks a second term in 2010.

“At this point it’s going to be more symbolic than substantive,” pollster and political consultant Silas Lee said Friday of the recall effort, ostensibly launched to protest Cao’s vote against the federal stimulus package. “But symbolism carries a powerful message.”

Via Libertarian Republican, via The Other McCain.

You know, if we’re really going to have a full and frank discussion on race, Attorney General Holder, do you think that we can start by the way that minority activists from your party seem determined to judge a man by the color of his skin, not the content of his character?

No?

Imagine my surprise.

Moe Lane

Crossposted to RedState.