It is terrible to accuse most people of racism, when in fact they have shown none. But for one that HAS explicitly used race as a factor in judgment, it is not terrible to give the beast its name.
The term is used as a weapon. You just have to shrug it off, otherwise they will stop you from doing anything. Fear of being branded as any sort of politically incorrect being has held the conservative movement back for far too long. It's time to stop pretending that people who work against us are simply friends who have a different opinion. They do not consider us as friends, I can guarantee that!
With Obama in office it will become very obvious that we are armpit deep in bonafide communists, not mere socialists, communists. They are popping out of the woodwork all over the place.