I really like it when commenters see the direct connection between BUGS and old sayings that make sense. One of you saw the connection between one of my articles and the old and true saying: A prosecutor can get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich.

Alan B pointed out on June 17 that he had often said that a turnip could get a major party nomination by following the OPC guidelines. In fact, the day before his comment, SC Democrats had just done that.

What happens here is that the black leaders tell blacks how to vote. In the black churches, the preachers told their flocks to vote for the US Senate nominee in the Democratic primary whose name appeared first on the ballot.

But there was some last-minute shuffling and the name on the top by election day was changed to the man you have all heard about who is now the Party nominee.

If this is the case, no one will talk about it. Back in 1962, Hollings was running for the SC seat in the Senate made vacant by the death of Olin Johnston. Back then the black vote was measured by two all-black wards, Ward 9 in Columbia and Ward 9 in Charleston.

He was running against former Governor Russell, who had appointed himself to the vacant seat. But at that time having the black vote was a burden. So Hollings called the black leaders and got Russell’s name put on the slips handed out to blacks in the two Ward 9s for the Democratic primary, and his name on the rest of them.

So Russell was reported as getting the black vote and Hollings got almost every single black vote outside the Ward 9s. This was never mentioned anywhere in the press, though Russell bitched about it everywhere.

The simple fact is that there is no such things as a black vote. These two cases illustrate it, so such things are never mentioned in the media.

I remember that years ago Ed Rollins mentioned that blacks were bribed to vote in New Jersey. He immediately apologized, because it was not a “bribe.” That was Whitey Talk. What those payments were was a new black tradition called “walkin’ round money.”

Rollins, a good respectable, crawled, peed on himself, apologized, the whole bit.

The media shouldn’t fear to talk about the black churches getting it wrong. The average person would never make the connection any more than they could see that blacks are routinely bribed.

On Third Rock From the Sun, the alien, being from outer space, said he thought the black secretary was a Democratic. She had him crawling by saying, “Just because my skin is black, you think I’m a Democrat?”

But no one wonders why the Democratic Party pays hundred of millions of dollars to “get out the minority vote.” A dark skin means a Democratic vote. That is why “walkin’ round money” is not to be criticized because it is a “black tradition,” not a bribe.

Now the one black congressman from SC is screaming foul because a fellow black has gotten the Democratic Senate nomination. He likes this competitive black as much as Andrew Young appreciated Obama.

The church’s bad information may be the reason for this totally astonishing nomination. Another may be the one I came up with LONG before Obama became a major phenomenon. I warned that all the hype about Clinton being “America’s first black president” was something the cheering Democrats should take into account.

The problem is that when you a own political gold mine, you had damned better check and be sure it doesn’t have a cave in point. I TOLD you years ago that this gold mine of minority votes, of white Democrats glorying in the fact that all they had to do was get brown skins to the polling place meant victory, would not last all that long.

You see, when blacks vote for a white man who has a black heart, it will not be long before they vote for a man with a black heart AND a black FACE. I said that when Obama was a new Senator. I did not have him in mind.

This is the sort of advice I got paid for, despite the fact that I was not a comfortable person to have around. That was one of the reasons I was not a comfortable person to have around.

The white guy who was appointed to get the Democratic nomination could have used my advice. It would have been worth a lot to him, though none of the “professionals” would have even thought of it.

It could have been the black church’s mistake, or it could have been the simple fact that a lot of blacks just prefer to vote for a black. Neither can be mentioned in the media, and neither can be mentioned by respectable conservative or even at AmRen.

You will only see them on BUGS.