Uncle Toms for JEB!??

FAT! Rush recently (and by his own admission, deliberately) provoked a firestorm of publicity over his comment regarding "Uncle Toms for Thad." He did it as an obvious sarcastic rip of African-Americans scared out to vote for Thad Cochran in response to Karl Rove and Haley Barbour inspired dirty tricks in the Mississippi primary circus show used successfully to block tea party upstart Chris McDaniel.

To be fair to Rush (why not?), he defended his choice of language by pointing out how black Republicans have been vilified by Democrats as "Uncle Toms" for working in the W. Bush administration (Rice, etc.), running as Republicans (West, Keyes, Cain, etc.).  And to be fair to those African-Americans who voted for Cochran, why is it not plausible to believe they decided it was better for them in the end to have an old, worn-out white neo-conservative not representing them in the Senate rather than a young, energetic neo-confederate openly hostile to them in the Senate?

Rush may not understand that his "wrong" doesn't make the attacks on Keyes, Cain, etc. "right," but if the term "Uncle Tom" can be used, why can it not be use in a more creative, multicultural way for more targeted and appropriate satiric effect?

Consider how Rush, and soul mates like Mark Levin, Glenn Beck, etc. rail and rant against RINOs, and especially JEB!, as examples of plutocratic, crony capitalism and misguided (but illiberal) elitism gone wrong.  They are right in such criticism. Yet they will be out, guaranteed, as equally loud and frantic in the summer and fall of 2016 telling their listeners to vote for nominee JEB! and all these Karl Rove RINOs as the last best hope for smaller government, low taxes (lower taxes on unearned income for sure), and of course "constitutional conservative principles."

Call these "principles for sale" Shinola spewers and their subservient flock "Uncle Toms for JEB!" Fish-belly white ones.