Mia Love, the former mayor of Saratoga Spring, Utah, won her race for Utah's 4th congressional district Tuesday and will now be the first black Republican woman (and first Haitian-American) to sit in the United States Congress.The heads of leftists have been exploding ever since Love's victory as they attempt to come to grips with how a black woman could champion bedrock conservative principles such as fiscal discipline, limited government and personal responsibility.
The most fascinating treatise about Love — thus far — comes via The Huffington Post where Darron Smith, a desperately confused blogger with a Ph.D. in education, accuses Love of benefitting from a form of "white privilege."
Smith, who is somehow on a first-name basis with Love as he writes, lauds Love as a super-duper minority member: black, a woman and a Mormon to boot. He can't understand, though, how Love doesn't agree with his own political ideology. Because she disagrees with him, he declares that the principles she espouses go against her interests — because of the color of her skin and the sexual organs she possesses.
| Same argument as "what's the matter with Kansas?" Short answer: nothing except they value things differently than you do, and that's the real crime, isn't it... |
| Perhaps she doesn't see herself as oppressed... |
I guess he's upset she didn't play the race card.
Smith then lays down his blogger coup de grâce:
"She appears publicly unhampered by the daily grind of white racism that affects other racial minorities within the United States," he proclaims.
| Yup, she's unhampered alright. She just worked hard, shook hands, and won an election... |
| Perhaps she's not interested in openly advocating for race or gender, but instead advocating for her constituents and for the good of the country as a whole. Novel concept Professor but follow along... |
IOW: Doesn't fit the narrative. Would break his world view. Illogical, illogical . . . .
Smith also suggests that the Republican Party — but not the Democratic Party — exhibits a "pattern of using blacks to further white interests."
That's because it's the first thing that comes to his mind.
| Once again, a progressive accuses others of what he does himself... |
She also made headlines in 2012 for her speech during the Republican National Convention.
While Love was the favorite going into Tuesday, she won by a slim margin of only a few thousand votes.