GOP accuses Dems of playing race card

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC

From NBC's Mark Murray
Republicans are arguing that Democrats' appeal to young and minority voters is an effort to "play the race card."

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And today, the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports that DNC Chairman Tim Kaine today is expected to lay out a plan "to energize its base and appeal to such distinct groups as African-Americans, Latinos and younger voters, among others."

Said National Republican Congressional Committee spokesman Ken Spain in an email to reporters: "DNC Chairman Tim Kaine gave voters a sneak peak at their 2010 strategy: Play the race card from the bottom of the deck. After promising to transcend the political debate in this country, President Obama and his hand-picked party boss plan to shamelessly engage in race-baiting."

Added Republican National Committee spokesman Doug Heye: "Only days after our post-racial president made an appeal based on class warfare and race, Gov. Kaine is doing the same thing. It tells you how bad things are for them. Desperate times call for desperate measures, only now it's on an advanced timetable."

Of course, this RNC hit comes just days after Chairman Michael Steele was courting African-American voters and denouncing the GOP's past so-called "Southern Strategy" that alienated minority voters.

DNC spokesman Brad Woodhouse fires back: "Working to turn out voters who were new to the process in 2008 -- the majority of which as a matter of fact were people of color and young people -- is no more an appeal to race than Michael Steele saying he's going to bring a 'hip hop' makeover to the Republican Party or an 'urban' feel to the GOP."

Read more: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/04/28/2287877.aspx

[TexasProgresive]

1. Has our party ever said the GOP was playing the race card?

Didn't think so. The GOP is the party of racists - true not all are racist but the GOP is where they congregate. So why do the racists always crying about the "race card."

[pinboy3niner]

2. I think it's called "projection" nt

[BumRushDaShow]

9. +1000! n/t

[TheOther95Percent]

4. The GOP is the Party of Racial Resentment..

This race card thing resonates with their base.

[No Elephants]

3. Wanting to appeal to everyone is race-baiting? Not to mention that Rove was saying these things ten

years ago. Where were all the race baiting accusations then? Republicans never accused Rove of that--and neither did Democrats!


I guess one Party's "minority outreach" is another Party's "race-baiting."

https://peek-a-boo.appspot.com/www.vdare.com/sailer/041107_election.htm

Meanwhile, it's not Democrats emailing cartoons of watermelons on the White House lawn.



And this, boys and girls, is yet another example of why you never, ever, never worry about what Republicans are saying or might say.

[TlalocW]

5. This just in

Democrats listen to concerns of African-Americans, Hispanic-Americans, Asian-Americans, etc.

Republicans: RACE CARD! RACE CARD!

TlalocW

[Democat]

6. Thank god the GOP didn't just pass a Racist law in Arizona!

Wait, they did. Talk about race card - they are playing their very own Racist Card every day.

[liberal N proud]

7. The GOP can't figure out why the young or minorities don't support them

So they twist it and make it a race thing.

Just fucking WOW!

[Arkana]

8. Projection much?

You're right, because we appeal to voters who aren't old and white we play "the race card".

The GOP wouldn't know the race card if it bit them on the ass and introduced itself.

[EFerrari]

10. GOP: We want our card back!

lol

[pinboy3niner]

11. But wouldn't that leave them without a full deck? Oh, wait . . .

Never mind.

[CatWoman]

13. ROFL!!!

:)

[EFerrari]

14. I swear you have a picture of my Friday in your sig line.

[Grassy Knoll]

12. Im confused.......

Repubs are accusing dems of using the race card all the time, Huh ?

:rofl:

[UTUSN]

15. Uh, WHO passed the idiot law in AZ?!1 The Dems?!1 Whoever it is is who played the race card. n/t

[classysassy]

16. The old pot and kettle trick

[Odin2005]

17. The GOP is playing the Race-Baiting Card.