"Slavery was based on race, Jim Crow was based on race, lynching was based on race, and affirmative action should be based on race."
Bravely delivered, of course, in a debate sponsored by the NAACP on a predominantly black campus...by implication anyone who doesn't agree with racial preferences sees nothing wrong with slavery or segeregation or lynchings.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend is a seriously unpleasant woman. This may have gone over well with the targeted audience, but is the proportion of fanatically partisan Democrats in Maryland high enough that the voters will choose to have this sort of person as their governor for four years?