Two weeks ago, Curry warned his fellow party members not to demonize Maryland's Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele.
"Democrats ought to be promoting what they're going to do that's positive," Curry said in a Washington Times story, "instead of trying to knock Steele down."
But Maryland Democrats have a history of trying to "knock down" Republican candidates with the race card. Steele is just their latest target. Surely Curry must remember that nasty business of 1998, when Republican Ellen Sauerbrey ran for governor against then-incumbent Gov. Parris Glendening.
In a classic case of race-based smear tactics gone amok, Democrats ran television ads saying that Sauerbrey opposed three civil rights bills. Each time the ads mentioned civil rights, a black face would appear on the screen.
The straight-out-of-the-toilet politics practiced by Maryland Dems in 1998 prompted me to give them my Golden Commode Award. They won it again in 2002, with that nasty "Oreo cookie" episode during a debate of gubernatorial candidates at historically-black Morgan State University. (That was the incident in which Oreo cookies were either brandished or thrown at Steele. Democratic supporters say it never happened. Republican supporters who say they attended the debate swear it most certainly did.)
Democrats feel that since blacks have historically voted for Democrats that ALL Blacks Must Always vote for Democrats. The fact of the matter is Democrats don't respect blacks. They throw a few dollars their way and forget about them until the next election.
I truely believe that at some point a significant portion of the black population is going to look and see that the Democrat programs have hurt their people. Democrats in urban areas have destroyed urban schools. Democrats in the cities have allowed crime and decay to ruin their neighborhoods.
The disadvantage everywhere need a good education and a good work eithic. With that their fortunes will raise as fast as any other group in United States history.