By Lenny McAllister

Methinks the congressman from South Carolina dost protest too much about political abnormalities only when it behooves his party, not when the American people need political courage and standards in office. 

Have you ever wondered about the times when someone protests a strange occurrence only when the occurrence hit too close to home? You know, kind of like the old Shakespeare colloquialism, “Methinks thou dost protest too much”? 

Well, in the strange world of politics, if you pay attention to the occurrences long enough, you will see that many a career politician, indeed, dost protest too much when things don’t quite go his way. 

That is the case with the No. 3 Democrat in the U.S. House, Rep. Jim Clyburn of South Carolina. 

Rep. Clyburn feels the pressing urge to investigate the internal workings of a Democratic candidate for US Senate during his party’s primary in South Carolina. This, of course, is after a political unknown upset Clyburn’s pick – and the establishment choice for the Democratic nomination for Senate – in voting in the Palmetto State a few weeks ago. 

The train-wreck beauty of many career politicians is that they make stands leaning one foot on ethical and political hubris while the hypocrisy of their positions balances the other.  

Mr. Clyburn said – and I quote: “I believe there’s a coordinated effort to circumvent state and federal laws and seriously subvert the electoral process. Something needs to be done.” 

However, it seems that Rep. Clyburn believes that sometimes needs to be done only when Democrats can’t manufacture their political wishes. With that, I have three questions: 

Mr. Clyburn, I see your outrage over the Greene victory in the South Carolina primary but I haven’t heard a word out of you over the Sestak Affair and the Pennsylvania primary. Why is that so? Your silence seems to indicate that you have no problem with efforts to get Rep. Sestak – one of your colleagues in Congress, by the way – out of the race to help Arlen Specter win the Pennsylvania senatorial primary, yet you have problem with Greene winning in South Carolina? If it may be criminal to have a private citizen come out of the woodwork and “subvert” the process (as you put it), isn’t it worse when the White House uses public money and the power of the presidency to subvert that same process as well? 

Of course, Democrats need Specter in the Senate in order to continue the power struggle of votes in this politically-hot time. Which leads to this question: Mr. Clyburn, where was your outrage of “subverting the process” when the unethical Senate deals that many called bribes occurred in order to get Obamacare? National polls showed that this health care bill was not what the American people wanted. Yet, I remember your smiles and gleefulness on the Congressional floor when the votes were passed. Subverting the process was hardly a bother for you and Democrats at the time.  

That, of course, was because Democrats used deal-making and race-baiting to win the health care vote.  

That goes to South Carolina and Greene – a Black common man – and his opponent Vic Rawl, a White candidate seen as the establishment choice due to his legislative and judicial experience. 

Now, as a proud young conservative and Black Tea Party Patriot, I have to ask this last question: Mr. Clyburn, are you hating your own race by prompting federal authorities to investigate Greene’s victory in the Democratic Party? Are you selling out the political advancement of Black America by standing in the way of Alvin Greene’s potential win as the next Black senator in the US Senate, a history-making event should it occur in November? Are you an Uncle Tom sellout that loves his status as #3 in the party more than the advancement of his people?  

If this were a Black Republican doing this, the catcalls from the Black community would be deafening. Instead, we maintain the quid pro quo of Black politics where the status quo is both complained about and defended by the majority.  

Rep. Jim Clyburn and the Democrats may be burning up over his surprise victory, but America continues to be hot-under-the-collar over career politicians and their hypocrisy.  Perhaps the next time the Democrats want to protest injustice in politics, they should make sure that their moral compass points them clearly in all situations, not just the paths that favor them. 

Lenny McAllister is a syndicated political commentator, podcast co-host, and the author of the book, “Diary of a Mad Black PYC (Proud Young Conservative,)” purchased online at www.tinyurl.com/lennysdiary  and www.amazon.com. Catch Lenny on “Heather on the Hill,” premiering on www.ftrradio.com at 10 AM EST Sunday. Follow him at www.twitter.com/lennyhhr and on Facebook at www.tinyurl.com/lennyfacebook . His weekly commentary is featured on CNN Radio 650 Houston each Friday on “The Civil Right with Natalie Arceneaux”.