The Tale of Two Wrecked DeSotos

July 20, 2010: At the end of its production life, the Chrysler DeSoto became a burden on local auto dealers. Today, U.S. Senate Candidate Joe Miller's spokesman, Randy DeSoto, has become a burden on Alaskan's sense of intelligence.

When Chrysler dumped the DeSoto model, car dealers were forced to take possession of DeSotos under the terms of their franchise agreements, received no compensation from Chrysler for their unsold DeSotos at the time of the formal announcement.

Making matters worse, Chrysler kept shipping the cars through December, many of which were sold at a loss by dealers eager to be rid of them.

All in all, the DeSoto was allowed to exist for too long before the plug was pulled.

Today, the plug should be pulled on Miller spokesman Randy DeSoto.

The recent controversy surrounding a blatantly racist letter penned by a Tea Party Express leader Mark Williams to the late President Abraham Lincoln on his blog, set off a firestorm that drew criticism from one end of the country to the other.

"We Coloreds have taken a vote and decided that we don't cotton to that whole emancipation thing. Freedom means having to work for real, think for ourselves, and take consequences along with the rewards. That is just far too much to ask of us Colored People and we demand that it stop!", Williams wrote in his so-called satirical letter to the deceased sixteenth president of the United States.

For his role, Williams and his Tea Party Express group were thrown out of the National Tea Party Federation, with their spokesman calling the letter "clearly offensive." 

Meanwhile in Alaska, the campaign spokesman for Joe Miller, a candidate for U.S. Senate who is running against incumbent Lisa Murkowski, and has the backing and support of the Tea Party Express, was less than critical about the message and the messenger.

Randy DeSoto, said on Sunday that Williams' views were his own and didn't appear on "anything directly linked with the Tea Party Express."

Then on Monday, he told the Alaska Dispatch that while the campaign "disavows racism of any kind,"  he could see where Williams was going with his comparison of being a slave in the South to being a slave to the Federal Government.

He can see the comparison; comparison to what pray tell?

Two hundred years of oppression and brutal treatment of African Americans compares to what; having to pay taxes to keep Tea Party members in social security checks and medicare programs?

An entire race of people discriminated against in every walk of life compares to what; having to pay taxes to support America's military?

The only legitimate comparison I can make of all of this is the Chrysler DeSoto and Randy DeSoto have much in common; they're both old models whose time has passed.

Time for Randy DeSoto to head back to the 1950's where he obviously belongs.