Liberal dredges up old racist fears

The Washington Examiner ^ | 7/13/2015 | Michael Barone

[TChad]

In the Washington Post's liberal blog The Plum Line, Paul Waldman last week recycled one of the enduring lies of liberal politics: that "the Willie Horton issue," as Waldman calls it, was a successful appeal by the 1988 Bush for president campaign to American voters' racism. That's a lie and deserves to be exposed as such.

[TChad]

Conservatives should know the true Willie Horton story by heart.

[driftless2]

As if Horton were white, white voters would be ecstatic about a violent white criminal let loose on society. Liberals are mentally ill.

[Timmy]

And, if I remember correctly, Willie Horton was first raised in the primaries by the Al Gore campaign. That was the year that Fred Phelps was Gore’s Kansas state campaign chair.