According to Politico, “The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate…”
Polling? Focus Groups? This may not be such a bad idea considering Sen. McCain’s history of straight talk racial faux pas. The “all they want to trade is burkas,” “I hated the gooks. I will hate them as long as I live,” and unfortunate “tar baby” incidents come to mind. Beyond his own gaffes, the man McCain initially hired to run his presidential campaign, Terry Nelson was responsible for the racist ad attacking African-American candidate Harold Ford Jr. during his closely contested Senate run in 2006.
As the RNC clearly realizes, a “maccaca” moment would sink the McCain Campaign – and rightly so. We can only hope that straight talking McCain can avoid this kind of rhetoric and allow Obama to beat him by running a superior campaign, offering better policies, and gaining the trust of the American people. More importantly, this would deprive the talk-radio wing of the republican party the pleasure of blaming the “PC police” for electing our first black president.
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