We are, the Republican party isn't. They're still having bipartisan niceties with their good friends across the aisle. while the latest awful RNC chairman, Michael Steele, decides to play the race card in support of the RAT governor of the PRNY. Not only does this undercut us in claiming that the RATS are always race-conscious and we're not, but calling the RATS racists does not work. After all, Republicans and conservatives are supposed to pay the price with Hispanics for opposing Sotomayor, but the RATS got more support after opposing Miguel Estrada.
The bigger thing that Steele missed was the opportunity to further nail ACORN to Obama and the RATS and throw open the NY governor's race. Here is Bob Schieffer asking Steele a question that he knows is going to get a racial response from Steele:
BOB SCHIEFFER: Let me ask you about something that doesn’t have to do with this interview. The New York Times reports this morning that the President sent word through an intermediary to the Democratic governor up there, David Paterson, asking him to withdraw as a candidate for governor next year because they think he's so far down that it's just going to drag down the party.Steele obviously takes the racial bait and runs with it instead of doing what he and every other Republican should be doing: Pointing out that Obama and the RATS are pushing Paterson out of the way for NY attorney general Andrew Cuomo who was ACORN's partner in the Clinton administration. While ACORN was running the ground operation in the subprime "you're a racist engaging in economic redlining if you don't lend to minorities" campaign, Cuomo was running it at the command level as HUD secretary.MICHAEL STEELE: I-- I-- I found that to be stunning that the White House would send word to one of only two black governors in the country not to run for re-election. And it just raised a curious point for me. I think Paterson-- Governor Paterson's numbers are about the same as Governor Corzine's numbers, yet the President was with Governor Corzine, and I don’t know if there’s been a request made of Governor Corzine to step down in New Jersey. So I-- I just find it to be stunning and also rather bold.
(Source: Face The Nation Transcript, September 20, 2009 [p 8])
Long past time to change leadership. 2010 is going to slip away with buffoons like this running things.
I have no interest in supporting anybody whose primary loyalty is based on race.
After all, Republicans and conservatives are supposed to pay the price with Hispanics for opposing Sotomayor, but the RATS got more support after opposing Miguel Estrada.
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The problem for Steele was twofold - he missed the chance to bring up the connection of Cuomo to ACORN to Obama. Secondly, he didn’t even make the point he was trying to make - something along the lines of liberal hypocrisy calling Conservatives racist while themselves opposing candidates of color whenever it is politically expedient without themselves falling prey to their own assanine criticism.
Calling out liberal hypocrisy was a worthy answer - he just didn’t make the point - didn’t make the connection.
If he were on top of his game, he could have made both points!