{"id":4902,"date":"2008-03-08T10:15:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-08T10:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/steyn-on-the-democratic-primar.html"},"modified":"2008-03-08T10:15:48","modified_gmt":"2008-03-08T10:15:48","slug":"steyn-on-the-democratic-primar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/03\/steyn-on-the-democratic-primar.html","title":{"rendered":"Steyn on the Democratic Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/article.nationalreview.com\/?q=MjczMDE2Zjk3ODlhNDUwMGQyOGExNTU5YTE1OTBjMTE=\">He makes a brilliant, funny synopsis of what we are in store for leading up to the convention:<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Democratic primary season seems to have dwindled down into a psycho remake of Driving Miss Daisy. The fading matriarch Mizz Hill\u2019ry (Jessica Tandy) doesn\u2019t want to give up the keys to the Democratic-party vehicle but the dignified black chauffeur Hokey (Morgan Freeman) insists it\u2019ll be a much smoother ride with him in the driver\u2019s seat, full of gear change you can believe in, etc. Yet, just as he thinks the old biddy\u2019s resigned to a nomination as Best Supporting Actress, the backseat driver plunges her hat pin into his spine, wrests the wheel away and lurches across the median.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Will it really come down to racial guilt versus gender guilt?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He makes a brilliant, funny synopsis of what we are in store for leading up to the convention: The Democratic primary season seems to have dwindled down into a psycho remake of Driving Miss Daisy. 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