The entire Obama campaign is a slice-and-dice operation, pandering to
one group after another, particularly those that elected Obama in 2008 —
blacks, Hispanics, women, young people — and for whom the thrill is now
gone.

What to do? Try fear. Create division, stir resentment, by
whatever means necessary — bogus court challenges, dead-end Senate bills
and a forest of straw men.

Why else would the Justice Department challenge
the photo ID law in Texas? To charge Republicans with seeking to
disenfranchise Hispanics and blacks, of course. But in 2008 the Supreme
Court upheld a similar law from Indiana. And it wasn’t close: 6 to 3, the majority including the venerated liberal John Paul Stevens.

Moreover,
photo IDs were recommended by the 2005 Commission on Federal Election
Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter. And you surely can’t get into the
attorney general’s building without one. Are Stevens, Carter and Eric
Holder anti-Hispanic and anti-black?

full column.