Echoing John Hood‘s analysis in National Review, Michelle Malkin has devoted a National Review Online column to the potential pitfalls associated with September’s Democratic National Convention in Charlotte.
In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party’s presidential-nominating convention. For once, the incurable jet-setter may wish he had stayed home.
Obama’s stage managers envision a triumphant, unifying coronation reminiscent of their 2008 DNC production in Denver. But the southern swing state is turning into a Democratic disaster zone.
Start with the North Carolina Democratic party. At the state-party convention last week, Obama for America was AWOL. The glaring absence of high-level national Obama surrogates was noted “as odd,” according to the Charlotte News and Observer. There’s good reason to steer clear. The party is embroiled in a sordid sex scandal that won’t go away.
Earlier this year, former party communications staffer Adriadn Ortega, 26, accused former NCDP executive director Jay Parmley of repeated sexual harassment and physical groping. Documents leaked to the conservative Daily Caller news site revealed a hush-hush financial settlement involving the two men. Ortega was fired; Parmley resigned; state Democrats went into panic mode. …
… Other Democrats are boycotting North Carolina to avoid an entirely different taint: the scandal-plagued president himself. By TheDaily.com’s count, at least seven Democratic officials will skip Obamapalooza: New York Democratic representatives Bill Owens and Kathy Hochul; Pennsylvania Democratic representative Mark Critz; three endangered Democratic politicians from West Virginia, Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, Senator Joe Manchin, and Representative Nick Rahall; and Utah Democratic representative Jim Matheson.
