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In reply to the discussion: Bruce Bartlett, former Reagan economic policy advisor: "one of our political parties is insane" [View all]existentialist
(2,190 posts)I think rather that the Republican establishment will use anything that they can against any Democrat. Obama is black, and there is an element of their base that the Republican establishment can excite be exploiting their racist tendencies, but they would do the same against any member of any group that they thought that they could discredit by derogatory appeals.
Back in 2007 and 2008 when it looked like Hillary Clinton would be the Democratic nominee there was one Republican backed shell group that had started up going by the name Citizens United Not Timid, and they used the Acronym freely--of course there is no Republican war against women either.
Or against Hispanics, or Asians, or Muslims, or gays and lesbians, or the unemployed, or the uninsured, or unions, or anybody else that they can attack and thereby inflame their (shrinking) base.