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WELL GOOD morning America.
You’re a racist.
No, you are.
Welcome to the battle to the bottom, with the Republicans leading so far. With the multiple welfare ads from Team Romney being unloaded on battleground airwaves, including where I live in the Virginia Beltway, also known as the D.C. suburbs, it’s non-stop at this point.
Chris Matthews unabashedly charged the Republican Party with playing the race card this morning on “Morning Joe,” while Joe Scarborough attempted to offer his party cover through daring Matthews to say Romney was playing the race card. Matthews did not back down. Matthews also went after Mitt Romney’s birther joke, which Pres. Clinton and Pres. Obama have both deflected.
Tom Edsall addresses the racial overtones in Team Romney’s welfare ads today in the New York Times.
As the head of a tax-exempt 501(c)4 independent expenditure committee, Law cannot coordinate campaign strategy directly with the Romney campaign. Nonetheless, he is sending a warning. The welfare theme, Law said, “needs to be done sensitively. Right now it may be more of an economic issue than a values issue: In other words, more people on welfare is another disturbing symptom of Obama’s broken-down economy, rather than an indictment of those who are on welfare or the culture as a whole.”
Will the Romney campaign heed Law’s advice to keep it subtle? The principle media consultant for the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future, which will be running many of the anti-Obama ads over the next ten weeks, is Larry McCarthy, who produced the original Willie Horton ad.
Mitt Romney is threading a very thin needle, which with the history of the Republican Party, doesn’t allow much benefit of the doubt or room for error.
But guess what, as righteous as Chris Matthews is, this won’t help Pres. Obama and it won’t make more people want to vote or engage in the 2012 election.
It’s something Team Obama knows very well and so does Pres. Bill Clinton, which is why they all brushed off Romney’s birther joke last week.
This is the part of what’s going on with Mitt Romney’s ads that flies right over the heads of people like Matthews and others trying to help Obama. They’re simply falling right into Team Romney’s ad men’s trap.
I would tend to agree with Taylor on this one. It’s important that Dems not fall for deliberate GOP provocations like Mitten’s birther comments! Getting into a shouting match with a shameless prolific pathological liar like Mitt Romney is ultimately self-defeating! The GOP wants to stoke racial tensions because driving up white turnout is the only hope they have at winning this election. That and voter suppression of course. The numbers Romney is getting among racial minorities is truly pitiful!
I don’t understand why this is news, the republicans have been playing the race card every election since Nixon.
“But guess what, as righteous as Chris Matthews is, this won’t help Pres. Obama and it won’t make more people want to vote or engage in the 2012 election.”- Taylor
WRONG! It will ensure Obama minority voters shows up, just as it will ensure the racist come out in full force for Mitt Romney. It is a double edge sword. Minorities hear the coded message in Romney ads…and don’t like it. And when I say minorities…I am not just referring to only Black voters…Romney is doing a piss poor job with Hispanics and Asian Americans, polling after polling backs this up.
As the republican party delights in thinly coded racist/sexist rhetoric…people in the middle who do plan to vote…are listening and most don’t like what they hear…I don’t know who will when this election…but I do know that Romney is pinning all his hopes on a massive white turnout…no matter what Chris Matthews says…will not shame Team Romney…nor racist republican followers.
Wow! Nice new layout Taylor.
Get it girl!!!
As far as Chris Matthews, I am sick and tired of White people who want to tell Black people about racism. Since when is talking about welfare directly tied to Black people? I have never been on welfare and as I understand it there are more White people on welfare than Black. Now tell me again who is using coded language?
Chris Matthews is full of hate the worst kind of racist and sexist there is.
Man against Woman.
Black against White.
Rich against Poor.
I am sick of it.
He disgusts me.
MORE race-card playing from the Obots.
Chris Matthews is full of hate the worst kind of racist and sexist there is i so agree he should be fired he is no longer a reporter just a mean dumb ass that has lost his way and what comes out of his mouth is trash shame on him how does he sleep at night? there are so many words i could use to but there all @#$$@#$%#%^^^#%^^*&*&$$#@#@#@ like that he makes the newwork look bad plus the fact he cuts off anyone he is talking to to try to make his lies stick the guys a loser fire him before he brings more trash out of his mouth and chris if you havea chance to read this what happened to you shame shame shame shame what go up comes down and your will get yours ,i cant wait to watch you fall as ill be there