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Why McCain is race baiting: Its his base
McCain's race baiting is all about his unenthusiastic GOP base. They are not too excited about McCain already and they will become even less happy with him after he moves to the center to try to win the election.
McCain's only chance is to get the GOP base to support him by presenting himself as the unfair victim of dishonorable race-card tactics by the Obama team.
So to do this they deliberately race-bait in a manner that makes the intention clear without definitively crossing the line as far as a GOP supporter is concerned. Anyone with a brain knows that kicking the only black reporter out of the press area (and the white reporter who asked why it was happening) and the Britney/Hilton 'rapist' ad were intended to be interpreted as racist. But such subtleties are lost on the reptilian brain stem employed by members of the GOP base.
The objective here was to elicit a chorus of 'racist'. And when Obama refused to oblige they invented the charge and McCain repeats 'race-card race-card race-card race-card' at every opportunity.
Hence Obama's response that the tactics are cynical, not racist.
Comments (1)
Oh, so it's actually a "rapist" ad?
I guess Josh Marshall might be succeeding after all.
August 3, 2008 11:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
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