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He never mentions the explicitly racist comments. To take but one example of his failure to address the question.
Come on Salon, we readers write in about this shit, but really, what bugs me is not the responses, but that you might actually be PAYING this moron. He is totally evasive, and seems to think that we are stupid, that we would take at face value what any political strategists -- be they GOP or Dem -- present as reasons these days. Under the guise of anonymity, this guy could be telling us secrets of the crypt. Instead, we get bullshit boilerplate. Please, stop paying him.