Reply #48: No disagreement ... its the evolution of the Southern Strategy ...

[JoePhilly]

From the beginning, the GOP's Southern Strategy tried to claim that "welfare queens" were benefiting and that "white, God fearing, rural folks" were paying for it.

My larger point in the initial post was more that the GOP had a problem regarding how to leverage the Southern Strategy in 2009 and not be called Racist. Their old tactics are just too well known.

So they followed another Rove tactic ... take your weakness, and pretend it is your strength.

That's why they now regularly PREEMPTIVELY call specific folks on the left RACISTS ... Obama, Michelle, Holder, Colin Powell, Sotomayer ... and on and on ...

By screaming RACIST first, they intend to put the left on the defensive in an area where we should be on the offense. And once they've called the person on the left the racist ... they then "feel free" to unleash any racist rhetoric they want.