WSJ.com prints RW blog piece implying RFK Jr. motives racist!

BY JAMES TARANTO
Friday, June 2, 2006 4:13 p.m. EDT

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The latest example: Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a nephew of Sen. Ted Kennedy, has reportedly written a long article for Rolling Stone magazine in which he claims that President Bush stole the election--not the election of 2000, but the election of 2004, which wasn't even that close. According to blogger Edward Morrissey, Kennedy claims that exit polls are "exquisitely accurate," and therefore the early, improperly released raw data, which overstated John Kerry's* performance, told the truth and the GOP stole the election.

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Kennedy's article was constructed for one reason, and one reason only; to smear a black fiscal and socially conservative candidate has charisma, integrity, and cross-cultural appeal--in short, a real chance of winning. Blackwell . . . has been significantly closing the gap with Democratic frontrunner Ted Strickland in recent weeks. Strickland led Blackwell by 16 points in a Russmussen poll on May 8, but that gap has dramatically to just six points in a May 25 UC-Ohio poll. . . .

Ohio Democrats fear a Strickland loss, but the national Democratic Party fears that Blackwell may be in the vanguard of black conservatives that may cut across racial and party lines, eroding their traditional stranglehold on the black vote.

For lack of information, we neither agree nor disagree with CY's assumption about the young Kennedy's motives. Also, we quibble with his metaphor (wouldn't one loosen a stranglehold rather than "erode" it?). But one thing is undeniable: If Republicans found a way to compete for black voters, it would spell disaster for Democrats.

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* At least he served in Vietnam, unlike Robert F. Kennedy Jr.!