Matt Continetti reports on the strange politics of Georgia’s once and future congresswoman, Cynthia McKinney, and the conspiracy theories that animate them. He leaves out her recent fundraising for Narco News, however. As the New York Sun has noted, when McKinney first lost her seat two years ago, several Democrats welcomed her defeat. Not so this year.
When Trent Lott made his outrageous comments about the segregationist presidential candidacy of Strom Thurmond, Republican leaders publicly rebuked him and pushed him out of his position as Senate majority leader. Why didn’t Democrats show similar leadership with regard to McKinney in the recent election? As Continetti suggests, McKinney’s views are going mainstream: “Maybe when McKinney shared her disturbing theories about President Bush in 2002, she was not so much falling off the edge of progressive politics as anticipating it.” Maybe MoveOn does own it.
— Steven
The Dish 