Herman Cain and the race card

[Alferd_Packer]

Adam Serwer at Mother Jones has an interesting breakdown of Herman Cain's latest antics.

source (warning - the camp name is in the link)

The conservatives slamm Cain for the ranch issue

but it's Cain whose remarks are drawing the most criticism from the right. At RedState, Erick Erickson concluded, "It also seems to be a slander Herman Cain is picking up and running with as a way to get into second place." Glenn Reynolds remarked that until now, Cain's "big appeal is that he's not just another black race-card-playing politician." Over at the Daily Caller, Matt Lewis called Cain's remarks "a cheap shot, and, perhaps a signal that Cain is willing to play the race card against a fellow Republican when it benefits him."

But, as Serwer points out, they are mute on criticising Cain for various other comments he has made

no one thought Cain was "playing the race card" when he said in the same program that black people are "brainwashed" into voting for Democrats and suggested that black people who vote Republican are "thinking for themselves." Cain wasn't rebuked by conservatives when he previously suggested President Barack Obama was not "a strong black man," implied liberals were out to commit genocide against blacks through support for abortion rights, and said he wouldn't appoint a Muslim to his cabinet.

the best line of the article seems to be aimed directly at a few who post here:

Cain just ran head first into the brick wall of conservative anti-anti-racism, the attitude on the right that accusations of racism directed at white people are of far greater consequence than any lingering vestiges of institutional racism nonwhites might face.

 

[Mooseman]

Cain is running for VP

 

[Alferd_Packer]

Cain is running for VP

He'll never get the nod.

 

[leftysergeant]

Cain is running for VP

Somebody needs to take that ranting sociopath aside and tell him, "Be careful whose toes you step on on the way up. They might be attached to asses you will have to kiss on the way down."