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Isn't this actually a racist remark? What would happen if a Republican politician labeled a black and a Hispanic neanderthals? I know one thing. The press wouldn't let him get away with saying that that wasn't what he meant.

Lord knows it pains me to defend Ted Kennedy, but he did not single out the black and hispanic judicial nominees for his total uncalled for term “neanderthal.”

The person who actually singled out a blacks and hispanics as targets of the term was Limbacher.

If anything, it’s his spin on the incident that’s racist.

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so, then, there's one set of standards that apply to republicand and conservatives, and another, much looser set of standards that apply to persons of teddy's ilk? because by the standard of the day as it is used against us, "racist" is the nicest accusation you'd be hearing had the equivalent remark come from a republican's mouth.

[zook]

The point is that we need to turn this *into* a racist remark. We need ads with Kennedy's quote and the faces of the men and women he referred to. Perception and symbolism are everything.

[Cicero]

Well, maybe a tad unfair. But when two out of the three candidates are minorities, and the third is a woman, it's not nice to call them Neanderthals. No Republican would get away with it.

No, of course he didn't mean it as a racist comment, he wouldn't want to offend his base. But Democrats are licensed to be insulting and careless in a way no Republican would be permitted by the media.