“So only Hilary’s thugs will operate.”
I continue to be surprised at the number of Freepers who at the time of the primaries, and even now, were ok with these tactics being used against Hillary as if they weren’t aware we’d be facing the same thing come election time.
There were many Freepers who had no problem with the “anyone who disses Obama is a racist” talk when it was the Clintons on the receiving end, as well. We know how that turned out - it was just a preview of the same charges that would later be levied against us.
We need to be smarter than that. Sure, a lot of people enjoyed watching the Clintons getting bashed. But it was short-sighted, and had real consequences not just for the general election but for our country in general.
It necessitated that we turn to people like Michael Steele and Bobby Jindal to deliver our messages, who, being non-white, were better able to avoid accusations of racism in opposing Obama’s agenda. But that the Republican party felt the need to even take that step demonstrates, pretty well, the consequences of not saying a word (or even encouraging) when the Obama campaign used every dirty race-baiting trick in the book during the primaries.
Jindal's as white as John Wilkes Booth. He's from northern India -- land of the Aryans, man.