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Playing The Race Card: The Kings & Queens of Hypocrisy
By Matt Margolis | December 10, 2002
The race card is an easy, desperate move for Democrats to make against Republicans. Any chance they get, they can make an otherwise innocent action become the worst of all intolerable acts.
Senator Trent Lott (R-Miss.) in honoring Sen. Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday made a remark that Thurmond, if he won his bid for President back in 1948 we wouldn’t have the problems that we have today. Although, back then Thurmond was a Southern “Dixiecrat,” and at the time advocated racial segregation. Does anybody really believe that Trent Lott was making a direct reference to that particular part of Strom Thurmond’s then-platform (which he has since denounced), or was he merely trying to honor the long serving Senator with some kind words on his 100th birthday celebration. Lott’s innocent remarks are now being demonized as being deliberately racist in an attempt to scare African-Americans and independents from voting for the Republican Party.
This is a great example of how the liberals selective play the race card, even when they don’t have a good hand to back it up with. The best example would be the lack of outrage over Senator Robert Byrd’s use of the N-word multiple times during a TV interview last year. Senator Byrd is also a former member of the KKK, yet no one is calling for the Senate to censure him like former vice president Al Gore has suggested now for Trent Lott. Let’s not forget how nobody takes notice of the often-racist remarks and ideas of such liberals like Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson.
Lott said in a statement that his comments “were not an endorsement of [Thurmond’s] positions of over 50 years ago, but of the man and his life.” Enough said - well not enough for liberals. So, the scare tactics will continue. Liberals will not stop making a fuss out of this. And for every time they play this race card, it is the sign of their party’s inability to reach their constituency on the issues. Their deck has depleted, and they’re going to do anything they can to get a royal flush. But the Democrats should realize that the house usually wins, and when Republicans call their bluff, they’ll see that the race card does not give them a winning hand.
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