"I know you are but what am I" politics
by digby
Exhibit A:
Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, one of his party's elder statesmen and leading strategists, today accused Democrats of playing the "race card" in accusing Republicans of making race a subtext of the campaign.
Democrats have argued heatedly that Mitt Romney's unexpected new focus on welfare policy, his reference to President Barack Obama's birth certificate, and his embrace of Donald Trump — who campaigned on the latter subject — represent thinly-coded appeals to working-class white resentment of a black president.
"Name a campaign in the last 25 years where the Dems didn't play the race card," Barbour told BuzzFeed. "Surprise!"
Here's Newt "food stamp president" Gingrich to take it to its full PeeWee Hermanesque glory:
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