Maxine Waters and Charlie Rangel present an interesting challenge to the Democrats. Regardless of the merit of the charges, and they are very real; the damage to the party could be substantial. It appears that the two will not leave quietly. With a mere three months till the elections, the Democrats will suffer a very public hearing of the corruption they ran so heavily against.  But worse, the fact that both charges of ethics violations are against popular black officials leaves them to suffer the arrows  of racism that they used so indiscriminately against their opponents. The Democrats are already facing a reinvigorated Republicans party and they are also heavily losing the support of the independent voters that figured so heavily in their 2008 victories. In order for their losses in 2010 NOT to become a major routing they must figure on tapping into their true base. If black and extremely liberal voters start feeling that the prosecution of their leaders has racial...(Read Full Post)