Dopey Sean Penn demonstrates the Obama campaign's strategy for the 2012 election. Because Obama can't run on his record (more likely, he'll run away from it) they'll use surrogates like Sean Penn and Morgan Freeman as well as more serious leftists to attempt to marginalize the 'tea party' as, all together now:
racists! It won't work. Just as the 'Occupy Wall Street' mobs are making trouble as they expand to every city and will cause a negative backlash from ordinary Americans who see them as the spoiled takers and leftist loons they are, so will dopes like Sean Penn constantly calling the tea party 'racist'.
I support Herman Cain as the 2012 Republican nominee and intend to vote for him. If Cain, on his considerable merits, wins the primary race and becomes the Republican nominee, the fact that he is black will effectively negate the ridiculous charge of 'racism' against the tea party, which enthusiastically backs Cain. I can't wait.
If Cain, on his considerable merits, wins the primary race and becomes the Republican nominee, the fact that he is black will effectively negate the ridiculous charge of 'racism' against the tea party, Which will the Democrats do? Will they (1) critically examine the evidence of a successful Cain campaign and conclude that they should discard their deeply cherished core belief that conservatives are racists, or (2) brand Cain as a self-hating racist black man who makes conservative racists feel good about themselves?
Which of those two choices will be easier? How intellectually honest is the left?
For example,
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/30/cornell_belcher_cains_brainwashed_remark_was_a_racist_bigoted_statement.html
Like you, I support Cain, but I don't expect most Democrats to add two plus two and get 4, let alone examine their core beliefs.