Asserts the liberal commentator, in response to many Republicans' criticism of the moderate Republican's endorsement of U.S. President Barack Obama's re-election bid: "The Republican Party
— quick to accuse Democrats of playing identity politics and that old
standby, the race card – insists its policies are all about individual
rights and liberties. But only certain African Americans qualify as
independent thinkers, Republicans such as Clarence Thomas, Allen West
and Herman Cain. You earn extra points if you, as Cain did, call African
Americans who vote Democratic 'brainwashed,' or repeat West’s charge
that those African Americans reside on a Democratic Party 'plantation.'
Veer from the party line, though, and respectable showings in GOP
primary polls can’t save you, as Cain found out when he lightly
criticized the racial epithet painted on a rock at a hunting camp used
by Texas Gov. Rick Perry and faced push back from the same folks who had
once lionized him. If that’s what happens to Republicans, no wonder African-American
Democrats stick with the party, a voting practice that – bluster aside —
predated the black man on the ticket."
