[dowcaet]

Good point. I’m so tired of this racial double standard. Scalise is a fool for even being anywhere near a group like that but it sickens me that the Congressional Black Caucus associates themselves with people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and Louis Farrakhan who are known anti-Semites, and of course that doesn’t matter. Then again Scalise is a Boehner lieutenant so is that really a big loss other than the left seizing on this to score cheap political points by branding the GOP as racists for the ninth billionth time?

[grania]

Why would the left be using this to score cheap political points to get rid of Scalise? They could use this and other stuff if there is any to control his voting patterns. It's the constitutional conservatives (unless they're all frauds and don't want to oust the current leadership) that should be outing Boehner, Scalise, and McCarthy.

Never forget that if the constitutional conservatives in the last session weren't frauds they would've gotten Boehner out of there and the HOR could've stopped every awful thing they went along with last term.

[tanknetter]

Yup. One of the big lessons that came out of the failed Bevins campaign in KY last year was to always thoroughly research any and every group you plan to appear before.

There’s a double standard, certainly, and lifer isn’t fair. This guy needs to go back to being a backbencher. The positive is that there’s a chance to get a good Conservative into that position, rather than another Boehner crony. Like how the Dems destroyed John Towers for SecDef, which led to Cheney being his replacment and opened the door for the elevation of Newt Gingrich ...