When Stephen Nodine threw his hat in the ring for an Alabama congressional seat, the state's Republican Party chairman unctuously announced that the party would not give its imprimatur to a candidate who had been convicted of a crime. Is this self-righteous idiot of a chairman the real face of the party of Lincoln? Those tens of millions who have been wronged by the U.S. justice system -- and almost all of them have, because even the guilty are grossly over-sentenced -- should assert the traditional American right to redress, like African-Americans, women, gays, and all ethnic groups as their numbers enabled them, have done.