What's the shelf life for the race card?

[alexamenos]

a mixed metaphor thread....

I'm wondering, how soon will the 'you oppose Obama because you're a racist (eek!!!)' refrain be treated with near-unanimous abject contempt?

I gotta think the shelf life on this retort is pretty doggone short. It's a silly ad hominem on it's face and if anyone thinks that the right (real and nominal) wouldn't be every bit as adamently opposed to Barry Soetoro's socialist schemes if he was a redneck bubba from the deep south, then that person must have been in a coma during the 1990's.

I put the over / under on this at mid-October. By Halloween the 'racist oppose Obama's plans because they're evil racists' thing won't even be acceptable on the Commie News Network and others...

As it exhibit a in the demise of this meme, Paul Krugman's latest nonsense:

the peddlers of anti-progressive lies are managing to convince a certain kind of American — white, socially conservative, etc. — that the hate-mongers are people like them; and, even more important, that progressives are Those People, people not like them.

Obama’s skin color makes this easy; but the Clintons faced the same kind of thing. Why? Well, the old line about Clinton being the first black president gets at something...

The Krugman Indicator: If Krugman is making the argument then the argument is a) silly and illogical; and b) obviously so.

He's trying to put a slightly different spin on the race angle, but the gist is the same -- the reason (white conservative) people don't support Obama is because of their deep-rooted cultural socio-pathies, not because they have differences of opinion with regards to the ruling party's policies and their means of implementing those policies.