Racism is a minor problem, if any problem at all, within the Democratic Party. That was not always so, but when Democrats passed the Voting Rights Act, the racist Dixiecrats deserted the Democratic Party. The Republican party adopted the Southern Strategy and welcomed the racists with open arms. They have become a key component of the Republican base. In contrast, The Democratic Party has identified with civil rights to the extent of nominating and electing a black President. So now that the left has seized on how Herman Cain’s behavior has come home to roost, you can be sure that the reason is anything but his race. The reaction would it be identical were it, Romney, Perry, or any other nominee.

If you’re Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Brent Bozell, Sean Hannity, and yes, even Herman Cain, you must feel pretty stupid for trying to fool the American people by blaming the reporting on sexual harassment complaints against the GOP presidential candidate on his race. Cain has tried to make his surprising presidential run to be about anything but race. He has chided other African-Americans for blaming their circumstances on race, has blasted black voters for being "brainwashed" for voting for Democrat, and he has garnered applause from his mostly white audiences by lighting into identity politics. Yet when faced with the most serious dilemma of his campaign, Cain looked like the boy crying wolf by saying there was a racial element in the reporting of sexual harassment allegations against him while heading the National Restaurant Association. He even tried to invoke the "high-tech lynching" comment made famous by Justice Clarence Thomas when he was going through his Senate confirmation hearings for the U.S. Supreme Court. But we shouldn’t be surprised. Cain has shown such a racial knee-jerk reaction before. He tried to nail Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart with the racist tag after a comedic bit on The Daily Show. Even other Republicans found his comments to be confusing… [emphasis added]

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