You cut right to the heart of the matter.
However! We may be able to use this to smear these kind of hand-wringing responses as "barking at Leftist dog whistles" or "infection with Racism! malware".
Interestingly, I find myself unconcerned with what Cliven Bundy said, and I think that you and no doubt others are similarly unconcerned.
They pulled this exact same crap on Sarah Palin, but I don't think they ever tagged her with the "Racism!" card.
Of course, she is an "idiot" forever and ever, while Chief Slave Overseer and Sub-Assistant Idiot Harry Reid continues to spew his addled, racist, hateful bile to an adoring media, which laps up his vomit like it's nectar...
Bundy did the right thing by standing on what he said. If you say something and you believe its valid don’t back down just because someone attacks you for it.
I had to laugh because I could Picture Sean Hannity wringing his hands together fearing he would be fired from his million dollar job on Fox News. And all because of what someone else said. The so called crusaders for freedom are just as cowed by the leftards as everyone else.