Gonzales Ruined Our Torture Party

Writing of Abu Gonazles, enabler for the Texan Torquemada, the Midget Kaus inadvertently spills the beans about his fellow reactionaries' thought processes:

The opposition to Gonzales among conservatives I know is not ideological. It is personal and almost visceral. They think he is a mediocrity and a whiny, gutless careerist! Also a classic overpromoted affirmative action hire.

How true. But then again, the instinctive conservative reaction to any person of color, regardless of that person's policy views, is that the person is an overpromoted affirmative action hire. The instinctive conservative reaction is always personal: only I -- and those who align themselves with me -- are worthy; everyone else is my enemy. And there's no room in their tiny minds for the thought that white men are responsible for Bush's miserable failures.

That is their reality; that is Kaus's reality.