Reply #9: Oddly, his saying it's so makes it so.

[Igel]

"We're not in the post-racial period" becomes not an observation, but a speech act making this not a post-racial period.

He's flubbed things up. Lots of repubs have, too, and yet while he's done some things 'right' he's also screwed up. As a newbie, he might be allowed this; but he's done it egregiously, and he's not really a newbie.

He's played and he's lost. So, yes, "The whole idea is to get me not to run in the primary." Not because people don't want a vision-impaired high-skin-melanin person in the governor's chair, but because they won't want him it in. In some cases, they want somebody with (R) after his/her name, anybody with a (D) need not apply--his race may make it worse, but for the most part that's beside the point. In other cases, want somebody with a (D) after their name in that seat, and figure that "Paterson (D)" cannot be that name, so why run him?

It doesn't help that he can't muster any good will even for members of his own party. If they're not with him, they're against him--because they're racist. Eh. And again, Eh.