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McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt explains why they shouted "race card," but I think you gotta see the little slip of truth in how he's running that campaign.
"I don't [care] whether it helps or hurts us," Schmidt said. "A lie unresponded to becomes the truth.".
posted by mikevotes at
6:03 AM
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I am glad McCain has yet to play the race card. He is likely to never play it.
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Anonymous, at 8:28 AM
I agree.
If for no other reason, I don't think he'll play it because if he did and lost, his name and reputation would become an historical shame.
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mikevotes, at 10:45 AM
That isn't to say that a conservative 527, as disreputable and insulting as Moveon.org is on the left, might play the race card. Then the question is, how well/sincerely/quickly McCain distances himself from it.
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Anonymous, at 1:51 PM
I would agree with that, too. I'm not saying whether or not McCain would want race being injected into the campaign, or whether outside groups might do it, what I am saying is that he will never brook anything that can be, even loosely, tied back to him.
No matter how "attacking" he seems right now, I'm sure he knows how he'll be looked on for history if there's even the slightest race stuff coming from his side.
I mean, first non-white presidential candidate. This is history book stuff, and I'm sure he doesn't want his place in the books to be that he was race baiting at the beginning of the 21st century.
History would not look at that kindly.
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mikevotes, at 3:44 PM
I remember when the Dems played the race card on the Willy campaign. The ad itself made a reasonable point about how Dukakis as governor made the willing decision to let convicted murderers out to rampage.
I saw the ad several times (before the Dems made their odd case, described below) and it never registered with me that Horton was black. I just remembered that Willy Horton looked scary in a wild-eyed Charles Manson way.
The Democratic Party reaction, with the false claim that the ad was an attack on blacks, also included the implication that when we are see a black, we are supposed to think criminal. I never had that idea before. And it was the Dems who put this stereotype in my mind, not the GOP.
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realist, at 6:09 PM
I don't want to go too far back because, frankly, it was before my full attention was on politics, but didn't they darken that photo of Willy Horton to make him more "menacing?"
(Well, maybe good for you if you don't see "the evil black man will rape your women" as race related.... but that was clearly the intent.)
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mikevotes, at 9:05 PM
"the evil black man will rape your women"
Which Willy Horton ad said this? Perhaps the one by Al Gore? He used this issue first, and I never did see any ad by him.
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realist, at 7:02 AM
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