Jacobyism at High Noon:
If I read Jeff Jacoby's latest effusion in the Boston Sunday Globe right, then it's OKAY for a well heeled California Millionaire to mastermind an effort to depose Governor Grey Davis via the recall.
Jeff has somehow managed to blame California's energy crisis on Davis without ever mentioned that deregulation was Peter Wilson's dumbass idea or that Enron's confiscatory pricing was reducing the citizenry to indentured servitude.
This is no small rhetorical trick in my opinion....the predations inflicted on the Golden State by Darell Issa and Ken Lay are apparently excellent reasons to dismiss Grey Davis from office.
Moreover replacing a Governor via petition that is approved by a MINORITY of California voters is an irony lost on the famously affirmative action adverse columnist.
I mean isn't that what the recall is in the end?
A form of intrusive affirmative action for GOP candidates who have been DENIED office by the ballots of a repressive majority?
That pismire eighteen percent of the vote that might make Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor is no doubt a poor beleaguered bunch of victims in Jeff's mind. So beleaguered in fact they deserve to be given the whip hand over everyone else.
This would seem to be the plain truth of Jacoby's logic....stripped of it's gruesome irony that is.
The recall is legal and 18% shall rule over the other 82% by dictat of money and media and perhaps steroidally enhanced muscle.
This raises the tantalizing question as to whether or not there is any form of GOP sponsored ideological warfare that Jacoby DOESN'T approve of?
Ah Jeff Jacoby, so desperate to enroll himself among the Future Autocrats of America that he'll sign on to ANY antidemocratic excess if it means he can ride roughshod over the backs of the peasantry cracking his whip with gusto.
It's been a long road from law school gimp to laughing insufferable young cavalier, eager to route the proles and raise high the standard of the New Class...
Jeff is so very much an exemplar of the GOP's newer and purer class of warrior ideologues...if the California situation was playing out in the Commonwealth he'd be screaming for shotgun justice and the execution of all citizens favoring Romney's recall.
As Eric Hoffer once noted for the aboslute true believer, the fanatics among us, there is NEVER any toleration for irony.

Sick
Demented
Typical