thanks for posting this!!

That n+1 piece was unusually weak. Even Atwater said that by the end, the racism had drained out of the Southern Strategy, leaving only bad policies and residual angst. That's not racism.

The perpetual failure of the left to actually make policy arguments, instead of name-calling people who disagree with us, is a total embarrassment.

How hard is it, at this point, to argue against Reganomics? Why even bother pissing people off by calling them racists?

I don't see the tea party espousing racist ideas. I don't see the opposition to bailouts and healthcare reform having a even a racial component, like welfare reform did. I see a couple nuts with signs, some ugly nativism, some embarrassing paranoia, and a lot of sad ignorance.

But what can you expect when we, the people who aren't ignorant, instead of making arguments and informing the tea partiers, just call them racists?

There are a whole bunch of people on the left who are hateful and lazy. The only thing they know how to do is call people racists. They don't care if the left keeps losing, as long as they get to feel superior. It's pathetic.

YOUR MOM was born in the Confederacy.

WFMU's Too Much Information is currently doing a three-part series on the Tea Party called "Beyond The Fruited Plain"; the third episode runs tomorrow.

http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/TI

Default position for arguing against those for less government and adherence to constitutional law (or anything the far left disagree with) is to shout 'racist!' - the new cry wolf.
No one cares any more.

Robert E. Lee at Appomattox: "If we're counting on the fucking *French* to pull our biscuits out of the fire, I guess we're through."

Apparently you weren't watching the rally on Saturday then?

The Tea Party isn't racist. Sure, there's a few racists among them, but that's all; the majority aren't. The rest are just ignorant / misguided / selfish / stupid (or some combination of the above). Why resort to inaccurate namecalling when there's so many valid things to criticize them for?