The Zimmerman acquittal was a massive victory for the prosecution

Yea. The prosecution won this one, big.

How so?

Consider:

1) The prosecution has behaved bizarrely from a legal standpoint. Why did they bypass the grand jury, and indict without it? After all, a grand jury would be a test run, a way for the prosecution to find what charge-- 2nd degree murder, manslaughter, 3rd degree murder, whatever-- would stick. It would make a lot more sense to have run the question of charging through a grand jury, and get a charge that might be sustainable before a criminal jury. It's almost as if the prosecution didn't want to be successful.

2) The prosecution chose the most serious charge-- 2nd degree murder. Why? Every objective legal analyst has noted that the evidence does not in any way support 2nd degree murder. Even the lesser charges go beyond the evidence, but 2nd degree murder means that Zimmerman pursued Martin with malice aforethought-- he carefully and deliberately planned to kill him. There is no evidence whatsoever to support that allegation, let along enough evidence to prove it beyond a reasonable doubt. It's almost as if the prosecution didn't want to be successful.

3) In trial, the prosecution witnesses were catastrophic for the prosecution. They clearly helped the defense case, again and again. One of Zimmerman's attorneys quipped that the defense proved Zimmerman not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. The prosecution's case was so weak that the defense took all the initiative.

It's almost as if the prosecution didn't want to be successful.

So let's take seriously the suggestion that the prosecution intentionally lost the case.

Why would they do so?

We conservatives misunderstand the Zimmerman affair. We think of it as a criminal prosecution, gone awry. But I think we're wrong.

The Zimmerman prosecution is a political affair, wholly, and has nothing to do with law.

The Zimmerman case is a perfect political storm for the Obama administration. The 2012 election hinged on voter enthusiasm. Obama had to motivate his base-- blacks and leftists-- and discourage Romney's base-- cultural conservatives and Tea Partiers. The suppression of conservatives and Tea Partiers by the IRS and associated alphabet agencies is a matter of record. And the Zimmerman case enraged and motivated blacks, who voted in 2012 in record numbers and whose turn-out at the polls exceeded that of whites, which is unprecedented.

Why was the Zimmerman case so effective for Democrat political leverage? Democrats needed an issue that enraged and motivated blacks, but just as importantly they needed an issue without cloture. If Democrats chose a cold-blooded deliberate murder of a black man-- the horrendous James Byrd case in Texas is an example-- the outrage would be intense, but short-lived. The perpetrators were caught, promptly tried, convicted, and sentenced to death. In the political calculus of the Washington-Chicago mob, the Byrd case peaked too soon, and left blacks with the reassurance that they could count on the justice system.

The Zimmerman case is perfect Democrat politics. The opportunity for race-baiting is endless. Seventeen year old black kid, incessant TV pictures of Trayvon as a twelve-year old, the fact that Trayvon was genuinely minding his own business before the incident all buttress the victimology necessary to stoke fear and hate. Zimmerman's enthusiasm in following Martin, his 'wanna-be-cop' persona, all played into the race-baiting stereotypes.

It was essential for Democrats that the Zimmerman case not be resolved with a conviction. Zimmerman's acquittal is what makes this case so valuable for Democrats. The outrage among blacks needs to be stoked. And nothing stokes black outrage like Zimmerman walking out of the courtroom, a free man.

So why exactly would the prosecution, which clearly was led from Washington (the Seminole County prosecutors were sock puppets), want to win the case? To calm fears, bring justice, secure civic harmony? Why the hell would they want that? A conviction would placate blacks. Of what political value are happy blacks for Democrats?

For Trayvon Martin's death to continue to be of value to Democrats, the prosecution needed to lose.

There will now be a federal civil rights investigation and civil litigation. More trials, more headlines, more spin about how blacks are victims and get no justice. There will be get-out-the-vote campaigns in black neighborhoods in 2014-- "Do it for Trayvon! Vote!" The race-baiting engine that moves Democrat Party politics needs fuel, and an acquitted Zimmerman, like a fugitive Emmanuel Goldstein and a globe-trotting Trotsky, is political high-test.

Zimmerman's prosecutors-- the real ones in Washington and the tools in Florida-- threw this case. That's why they overcharged and provided the defense with witness after witness. A conviction would have been a political catastrophe for Democrats. They don't want cloture. With a conviction, blacks would have felt that justice had prevailed, and the system worked. Confident hopeful black Americans are an electoral catastrophe for the Democratic Party.

The prosecution won this case, by losing. Deliberately. The trial was not about law. It was politics, by other means. The 21st century now has its Emmett Till and Medgar Evers, although the comparison is not precise: Till and Evers were killed by Democrats, whereas Martin's death is merely exploited by Democrats.

The Zimmerman prosecution's deliberate victory-by-defeat will reverberate through the next several election cycles and will reap millions of Democrat votes.

This is brilliant political theatre.