I did get a kick out of this part of Barnett's post though:

As a Jew, I found Fox's question profoundly offensive. Trust me, the wounded minority card is not one that I play with much frequency.

I guess that depends on how you define "frequency." Mr. Barnett, on his former site SoxBlog, found antisemitism everywhere in the Democratic Party, spraying the charge like it was candy:

I've written a little in the past about the far left's burgeoning anti-Semitism problem, specifically as it relates to some of the left's ranking blogs.

To bring you up to speed, Armando of the Daily Kos accused Joe Lieberman of "stabbing the Democratic Party in the back." This was an odd choice of words, considering that it directly mirrored Nazi rhetoric from Weimar Germany. Also mirroring Nazi rhetoric was Oliver Willis when he referred to Paul Wolfowitz as "filthy."

When I wrote of these instances, I conceded that it was possible that neither author was cognizant of the pregnant implications of his rhetoric. In Willis' case, I would even say it was highly likely that he had no idea he was channeling Nazi prison guards. After all, he is widely recognized as the left's dumbest blogger and a relentless imbecile.

But a couple of days ago, Juan Cole offered this summation of America's relations with Ariel Sharon and Israel: "Asking (Sharon) nicely to abide by the US-backed road map for peace is not enough, obviously. Congress should cut him off without a dime until he stops stabbing the United States of America in the back with his aggressive expansionism."

Juan Cole is the notoriously anti-American professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. He is, as he constantly reminds his audience and the world at large, a man of great learning and erudition. He would be the first to inform you that he is able to say simple phrases such as "stab in the back" in a bewildering variety of sub-Saharan dialects. Say what you will about Juan Cole, but he is no ignoramus. Thus, it is virtually inconceivable that his choice of rhetoric was a careless accident.

An additional point of interest is that Juan Cole was on last week's conference call where four star kook Wesley Clark suggested the Bush administration was implementing a foreign policy designed by American Jews Douglas Feith and Richard Perle at the behest of former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

So in sum, Juan Cole and other leftists push long recognized anti-Semitic buttons; they are rewarded by various Democratic politicians cozying up to them.

As may be observed at more than a few Passover seders in the coming days, this is not your father's Democratic Party.

Well, it is good to see that Barnett doesn't bandy about the 'minority card' ( nice bit of racism there Barnett, well done, Jesse Helms would be proud) very often, ahem. But the funny thing of course is that every Dem politician, from John Kerry to Wesley Clark to you name it trumpets their Jewish roots. Reminding voters that George Allen is Jewish is hateful bigotry according to Barnett. Why? Apparently, in Barnett's mind, because Virginia conservatives are anti-semitic.

I guess what Barnett is saying is that it remains 'your father's Republican Party' when it comes to anti-semitism. What an indictment of Virginia Republicans and conservatives Barnett delivers. But the truth is Allen delivered the same message.