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" Over the weekend, I wrote that Willard Romney, once my governor and onetime human being, had surrendered what was left of his soul to the base of his party by choosing a zombie-eyed granny starver for his vice-president. Little did I know that, three days later, Willard would go diving into the deepest, oldest, foulest sewer in American politics to retrieve the blackened shards of Strom Thurmond&amp;#039;s soul for a replacement. There is nothing for it now but than to say, flat-out, that Willard Romney has decided that the only way he can become president is to become a racist and to appeal to the racist base of his party. This is the second ad in as many weeks centered on the general theme of The Negro President Wants To Give Your Money To The Black People Like Him....      This ad is utterly truthless, just as the first one was, but its truthlessness is not the point. The blog has been saying since last summer in Florida that the dogwhistles are now air-raid sirens, and that the Republicans are no longer even trying hard to camouflage what they&amp;#039;re actually saying. That is the muck in which Romney freely immersed himself, and now, like some toxic monster, he has become the muck in which he swam. It&amp;#039;s a good thing that my man Chuck Todd assured me all weekend that, by choosing the zombie-eyed granny starver, Romney had moved the campaign to a higher and more substantive plane, or I might point out that, sooner or later, if you go into this running river of sludge deeply enough, it no longer matters whether you are a racist or not, as long as you&amp;#039;re so obviously promiscuous about performing as one on the public stage. If you get elected, whom will you owe for it? I might also point out that my man Chuck has an unfortunate wish to believe in unicorns. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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