Where's The Republican Outrage?

Is there any person so low that they won't find defenders in the Republican Party? How about Bill Bennett?

The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.

"The president believes the comments were not appropriate," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

Bennett, on his radio show, "Morning in America," was answering a caller’s question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up.

"But I do know that it’s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down," said Bennett, author of "The Book of Virtues."

He went on to call that "an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky."

And all the Pirate-In-Chief can think to do, even after recent events and the pall of alleged racism thereby, is to get his Press Secretary to tell the world such flagrantly racist remarks are "not appropriate".

There then followed a frantic Bennet ass-covering attempt in which refused to recant but instead claimed:

he was merely extrapolating from the best-selling book "Freakonomics," which posits the hypothesis that falling crimes rates are related to increased abortion rates decades ago. "It would have worked for, you know, single-parent moms; it would have worked for male babies, black babies," Bennett said.

So why didn't he say "male babies" or even "poor babies" and instead picked "black babies"? Because he's a freaking racist, that's why!

And its amazing the number of people who are swallowing Bennet's defense, including some on the left who should know better. When a thing waddles like a duck, shits like a duck and squawks like a duck, its probably a duck. In the flow of talk radio Bennett used words in haste and those words gave us all insight into his deepest soul. All demographic points aside, he could have used another example e.g. "poor babies" but instead his true thoughts flew from mind to tongue. He then tried to cover for it by tacking on some hasty words about it being morally reprehensible but the message had already been sent and received.

Bennett showed us that when he thinks about the subject, he thinks about skin color before he thinks about economic status and his defenders are either doing the same thing or are so interested in being "fair" that they have forgotten Al Gore's advice - that such people "use colorblind the way duck hunters use their duck blind, they hide behind it and hope the ducks won’t figure out what they’re up to."

And that's where the Republican outrage is - nowhere. They are all behind the duck blind with Bennett.