The sad thing is there’s no real “good guy” to root for here. Julian Bond, the NAACP Chairman, has stated he believes, “The Republicans’] idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side-by-side.”, despite the fact the Republican Party was actually founded as the anti-slavery party and we’re not the party with a former KKK member as a prominent Senator. The DNC is, well, the DNC.

Nevertheless, Bond says he fears the DNC’s decision not to seat the delegates would alienate minority voters in the general. And he’s probably right.

A prominent civil rights leader has told the Democratic National Committee that refusing to seat delegates from Florida and Michigan would disenfranchise both states’ minority communities.

In a Feb. 8 letter to DNC Chairman Howard Dean, NAACP chairman Julian Bond expressed “great concern at the prospect that million of voters in Michigan and Florida could ultimately have their votes completely discounted.” Refusing to seat the states’ delegations could remind voters of the “sordid history of racially discriminatory primaries,” he said.

He goes on to pose the Democrats as victims of the Republican legislature in Florida. Michigan, where the Governor and two Senators are Democrats, with John Kerry carrying the state in ’04? Strangely, I don’t see a quote from him on that.

Via Hot Air.