Dog Whistle Politics

Rick Santorum gripes about "blacks" getting welfare, Newt Gingrich calls Obama a "food stamp president," Mitt Romney parrots the KKK line, "America for Americans" and the list goes on. Republicans haven't evolved since Ronald Reagan talked about "welfare queens," quoted Jefferson Davis in Macon, GA, and pointedly visited Philadelphia, Mississippi without mentioning the civil rights massacre there. The GOP thinks it has mastered the passive aggressive art of luring racists without fingerprints, but sorry guys your gig is up.

Talking here with "The Young Turks" about GOP playing the race card ...

(Current TV, 1/05)

 

 

 

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Comments

[JohnFromCensornati]

07:05 AM on 01/06/2012

GOP: We can't call Obama a muslim if we're going to nominate a mormon, so . . .

[JohnFromCensornati]

06:42 AM on 01/06/2012

Why would NAACP want to invite a hateful non-contender like Blingrich to their convention?

[Kevin byDesign]

01:11 AM on 01/06/2012

My puppy never responds to a Dog Whistles and neither will the American Public. We need to Spade and "Newt-er" these #GOP candidates so they stop reproducing hate speech.. The Old Dogs of the GOP need to learn a new trick .."Civility & Science"