Don’t go away mad

As the news of Jesse Jackson’s infidelity and illegitimate child spread across the news wire Wednesday night, I had only one reaction: Unmutable, undeniable unequivocated glee. Not mere happiness, mind you. Total giddiness.
Perhaps the same feeling Jackson had when he spawned his latest creation.
In case you hadn’t heard, please indulge this. Jesse Jackson, the man who spent years as a self-righteous preacher trumpeting his twisted morality to the masses of Republicans who dared oppose his idiotic politics, has a love child with a mistress who — get this! — worked for his organization.
Regrettably, her name is not Monica. Perhaps they will name the child for the Other National Mistress.
Before this, Jackson had been in the news a lot lately, bashing John Ashcroft over and over again for supposed racism, sexism, and whatever -ism the Left feels compelled to stammer on about. What they really mean is Ashcroft is guilty of conservatism.
What do they expect? President George W. Bush is somehow going to stop being a conservative and appoint a bunch of left-wing nuts to his cabinet?
The irony is Jesse Jackson making a moral claim that Ashcroft is unfit to be Attorney General because of his positions on various issues. A moral claim from a man with an illegitimate child!
Thankfully, with this scandal, Jesse Jackson won’t be around to fraudulently kick Republicans around anymore.
But Jackson is not the only Democrat to make headlines lately opposing Ashcroft. Uber-slob Ted Kennedy is the best example of the confirmation process gone mad. He rants and raves, spittle flying from his chops, about Ashcroft and how poor, unfortunate minority children will suffer if he is confirmed as Attorney General.
Lost here is the irony that is Ted Kennedy also making an essentially moral claim against John Ashcroft. In Kennedy’s view, Ashcroft is callously negligent toward the lives of people who are black, because Ashcroft opposed the judgeship of Ronnie White, who is black.
But Kennedy opposed Clarence Thomas for the Supreme Court. Thomas is black. Does this make Ted Kennedy a racist?
Kennedy also opposes Ashcroft because the man is Pro-Life. Really. The nerve of Ted Kennedy to be on record as opposing a man who wished to save lives, particularly considering Ted Kennedy likely killed a woman in his hey day.
As the long-winded, long-standing Senator from Massachusetts, Kennedy is best known for his like of the bottle and for driving Mary Jo Kopechne into a lake, drowning her and then escaping, virtually unpunished. He has since been reelected, again and again. Kopechne is still dead. Kennedy only appears to be.
Let me explain something to Jackson, Kennedy and whoever still feels the inexplicably titillating tug of liberalism these days.
Your ideology has been tried and found incredibly lacking. Your assertions about race and fairness are incorrect. Your notions of big government being a helpful force in society have been proven wrong.
Your pathological need to destroy everything conservative has been shown for what it is — a mad grab for power in a country growing increasingly tired of hearing you.
So it has now come to this, with Kennedy spreading seeds of falsehood and Jackson spreading seeds of fatherhood. Neither man is necessary in the public debate because neither man values truth, honor or integrity.
Perhaps they both could stand to take a little of my father’s advice — don’t go away mad, just go away.