This all seems like a semi-retarded fusion of Richard Nixon and Monty Python to me (“wink wink, nudge nudge, know what I mean, know what I mean?”):

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/05/16/snow-memo-tar-baby/

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605120006

http://mediamatters.org/items/200605170006

http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/07/31/romney.racialremark.ap/index.html

http://www.crooksandliars.com/posts/2006/08/14/george-allens-macaca/

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/aug/17/fl_sen_blacks_may_not_even_know_how_to_swim

Seriously, the desperation is so thick you can cut it with a knife.