"The bottom line, and you know it to be true, is that any Republican or Republican proxy would be excoriated for this. That is not right."
Maureen, I found just such an example: http://minx.cc/?post=326726 Chimichanga? Is anyone really offended?<http://univisionnews.tumblr.com/post/17659726914/chimichanga-republicans-twitter-jim-messina> Was it a "great line" in the first place? I get it, though. Because no Republican in any position of prominence could have used Dana Milbank's lame line -- "All [Democrats] have to offer Hispanics is the chimichanga" -- without experiencing two months of fake, ginned-up "outrage." Liberals, by definition, are not racist. So if a comment comes along that pushes a stereotype, you must have just misunderstood. Conservatives, by definition, are racist. So if a similar comment comes along, that's proof of the racism. But I don't know if doing the same thing in return helps us at all. *But "I Might Have Tacos" Is Racist?* The nuanced decisions they make!<http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/26/10246992-2000-tacos-delivered-to-i-might-have-tacos-mayor> I assume the mayor there who said "I might have tacos" as his suggestion for Latino outreach must be a Democrat, as MSNBC studiously refuses to identify his party. *Nope:* Rocks says he's a Republican. So, if a Republican says something similar he gets a national campaign directed against him. Jim Messina doesn't even issue an apology. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger Politicians are people who, when they see light at the end of the tunnel, go out and buy some more tunnel. - John Quinton ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:347008 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
