Oh, that Harry Reid. Apparently according to the Senate majority leader, people who oppose the government takeover of health care are the same as people who opposed ending slavery. Yes Virginia, if you oppose ObamaCare you’re essentially a racist. And while I anxiously await all the serious journalists at NBC News and the NY Times (as opposed to the fake ones on Fox) to call on every Democrat to denounce Reid the same way they’d call on Republicans to denounce Glen Beck, I take solace on the general rule of thumb: when you have to resort to the race card, you’ve lost the argument.
I can only assume he’s speaking specifically at cats like Senator Tom Coburn from Oklahoma. The equation usually goes white + male + southern + having a different opinion from a liberal = racist. Damn all those radical white southern conservative who are standing in the way of the President doing what he wants like…um, Joe Lieberman and…SUSAN COLLINS?!? But she’s a squishy moderate RiNO?
That may be the case to some, and while she did support the stimulus bill, apparently she has the audacity to oppose HCR (specifically the Trojan horse to a single payer system public option) and even gives and example why. It failed miserably when they tried it in her home state of Maine…
