Here on a racial one-way street

The polls tell us 90 to 95 percent of America's black voters will vote for Barack Obama. Does anyone really believe that's because they're in that degree of unanimous support for his positions on Iraq, on gun control or the war on drugs? Come on. To any objection raised to Mitt Romney, an awful lot of members of the LDS church would reply, "Yeah, but come on, he's one of ours." And that's also heard among black folk discussing the Obama candidacy today.

If Barack Obama loses this race — and he now appears to be leading, though it will be much closer than the polls show — the groundwork is already being laid to squawk "Racism!" The groundwork is being laid to cite "The Bradley Effect," referring to the black mayor of Los Angeles who appeared to be ahead in the polls for the governorship of California back in the 1980s back but who finally lost — the presumption being that voters who opposed him were ashamed to admit that opposition to poll-takers.

If the vast majority of white Americans were racists, how would Barack Obama have captured the nomination of the Democratic Party, which is mostly white?

I will vote for someone other than Obama because of his politics and his lack of experience — especially his lack of realistic economic experience in the free market, running a business in the face of petty government regulators and taxmen swarming like ants — and anyone who calls me a racist for that debases our national debate by endeavoring to practice the politics of guilt and extortion.

Libertarians came close to nominating Russell Means for president in 1988. His race was properly seen as an advantage, not a handicap — though on balance, on the whole range of the issues, white guy Ron Paul proved the better candidate.

I would vote for a black man who enunciated a philosophy of limited Constitutional government and free markets — for a Thomas Sowell or a Walter Williams — in a heartbeat.

Of course, to the socialist practitioners of "identity politics," those men and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and authors and commentators like Larry Elder and Star Parker aren't "real blacks," any more than Sarah Palin is a "real woman."

Only those who favor redistribution at gunpoint need apply.

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