Republican pollster Frank Luntz reassured attendees to the Republican National Convention yesterday, over bloody marys, that they should not worry if Obama seems to be ahead in the polls. Never fear: the country is full of racists, and a lot of people who say they would vote for Obama won't actually go through with it. Thank God! I was getting worried. When will those uppity nigras learn their lesson? Pass me another bloody mary, and for goodness' sake turn that mic down; I had a big night yesterday.
Since the first days of the Southern Strategy, this has been the policy, implicitly or explicitly, of the Republican Party: racists vote, so they might as well vote for us. Although the party has since disavowed the strategy, we can put this latest incident right next to Trent Lott's unfortunate birthday speech to see how the protestations stack up against the record.
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