I am startled and frightened to learn that there exist human souls who of their own volition are watching the Republican Convention.
I frankly find Mittnuttery far creepier than Standard Wingnuttery. Your W-era wingnut wanted to start stupid wars and fellate the rich. Your Modern Mittnut wants to start stupid wars, fellate the rich, and then hard-sell you a timeshare in Provo.
Anyway, Jonah Goldberg is a shit.
Unfortunately, the claim that Romney is trafficking in racism has proliferated. His ads attacking Obama for unwinding the 1996 welfare reform are being denounced as not simply inaccurate but racially loaded.
For instance, in a piece titled "Making the Election About Race," Columbia University journalism professor Thomas Edsall writes, "The racial overtones of Romney's welfare ads are relatively explicit" -- an interesting analysis given that the ads explicitly don't mention race, which you'd expect to be a minimum requirement of "explicit" racial overtones.
If the ad don't say "nigger," it ain't pulled da "trigger."
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For fuck's sake. Really? Really?
Moving on.
Christ this is ghastly...
However, Edsall concedes that the racial overtones of Romney's Medicare ads are "a bit more subtle." Those ads charge that Obama raided Medicare to pay for Obamacare. Then Edsall notes that Medicare recipients are "overwhelmingly white."
He conveniently leaves out the fact that American seniors are overwhelmingly white as well and, if anything, under-enrolled in Medicare.
First, Romney's Medicare ads are all lies. (Really? You need links?)
Second, how on earth... what? What Jonah Goldberg said isn't a rebuttal. It's kind of evidence for the other side's point, if anything... what?
Here in Tampa, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told BuzzFeed that the Democrats are playing "the race card" in order to gin up black turnout. I'm sure that's true, but they're also trying to transform Romney into the ultimate unacceptable other in American politics -- a bigot (and a Mormon one to boot).
Gosh. The GOP sure has transcended racism.
"Here in Tampa, former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour told BuzzFeed that the Democrats are playing 'the race card' in order to gin up black turnout."
Jonah Goldberg quite seriously wrote this sentence to prove that liberals are the real racists, while at the same time, we see the GOP engaging in blatantly racist voter suppression efforts.
Face it, you're racist, all that's missing is the white sheets.