Peggy West is your average Democrat. She is a Milwaukee County Supervisor. Her county, like many in the United States, voted on boycotting Arizona over SB1070, the border enforcement law. In debating the proposed boycott, West made the following point:

If this was Texas, which is a state that is directly on the border with Mexico, and they were calling for a measure like this saying that they had a major issue with undocumented people flooding their borders, I would have to look twice at this. But this is a state that is a ways removed from the border.

Where does the Democratic Party find people this stupid? My favorite part of the video is when Jim Rice, who opposes the boycott, said, “I just want to assure my colleague that Arizona is a state that does in fact share a border with Mexico.” West later claimed that she misspoke. I guess “but this is a state (Arizona) that is a ways removed from the border (with Mexico)” can be misinterpreted.

In this story we have yet another example of a Democrat not understanding the situation in Arizona, yet still willing to make a sweeping judgment. Barack Obama, Eric Holder and Janet Napolitano  all could not be bothered reading the 10 page bill from Arizona, yet they felt free to condemn the law. In fact, despite their willful ignorance, the Obama administration has made it clear that they intend to sue Arizona for defending its border. In the above example, Peggy West doesn’t even know where Arizona is, yet she feels fully comfortable voting for a boycott. Maybe she’s angling for a post in the Obama administration – she clearly has the right disposition and the requisite intelligence.