The Dems know that if they drop to carying only 70% of the black vote they can kiss power good bye for ever. That is why they are so hysterical about maintianing this myth in the minds of the average black that all the rest of America is closet KKK, except the Dems, who will fight against all those mean racists so that blacks will ahve a chance.
Having Rice as Sec of State and Thomas top dog on SCOTUS just blows that myth out of the water and they know it.
So the Dems, being the actual heirs of the KKK, are resorting to their knee-jerk stereotypes of Rice and Thomas and they really think everyone is going to just swallow it and go on.
I think that they are pre-emptively falling for the Republican's maneuver, and are too ideologically blinded to realize it.
The old story of 'The Emporor's New Clothes' was written about people like the Democrat advisers. They all think that by repeating the same canards over and over, and if everybody joins in, then it is as good as true. All we need is an innocent child to point it out to everyone.
Both sides like the idea of legitimization via repetition; but, Coulter is dead on. Would be nice to see her prune some of the trash out of our midst as well. Wonder how she'd do.