TYLER: It’s baloney. MSNBC ought to get off this race-baiting kick…The Republican Party was founded by Abraham Lincoln…this was started as a civil rights party. If you go back to the 1856 Democratic platform it’s a racist platform…The Democratic Party — you can ask Al Sharpton about that, I think he would agree that the Democrats have failed in the public schools with the African-Americans. They abort their babies. They’ve done nothing to lift them out of poverty.
It’s not exactly breaking news to say that Newt GIngrich is using racism- both the overt variety and the more subtle code words- to bolster his flagging campaign prospects. It’s not as if he actually has anything positive to add to the public discourse, so using racism to create anger and divisiveness is what he seems to see as his best bet.
Gingrich really has no coherent platform, unless you consider “doing and/or saying whatever I think is necessary in order to win” to be a platform. Besides being a gifted rabble-rouser and verbal bomb thrower, Gingrich is also a master of lobbing all manner of unsubstantiated charges at the President.
Gingrich has built up quite the record of making derogatory, racially-charged remarks on the campaign trail. He frequently derides President Obama as a “food stamp president,” and said he would go to the NAACP and tell African-Americans they should “demand paychecks and not be satisfied with food stamps.” More than 40 Catholic leaders recently challenged Gingrich to “stop perpetuating ugly racial stereotypes” with his divisive rhetoric.
Move along, folks; no racism here….
Gingrich at least makes something of an effort to seem above the fray, even as he wallows in the mud. His surrogates, however, are under no such obligation, and one, Rick Tyler, is even willing to toss overt allegations of racism back at those with the temerity to accuse his master of being anything less than an altruistic egalitarian.
NEWT GINGRICH 2012: BECAUSE THE BEST DEFENSE IS A GOOD OFFENSE
