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Yes, Republicans have appointed some African Americans. Big whoop. The fact is that were it not for race baiting, and, more recently, gay baiting, the Republican ascendancy since the '60's simply would not have happened. This is not to say that Nixon, Reagan or the Bushes themselves have been racist or homophobic, but that they simply would have had a much harder time getting elected and reelected without the bigot vote, and the same goes for Newt Gingrich's "revolution." Can anybody deny that? Should Obama win the nomination, there can be no doubt that racism will rear its head at the top levels of the American political system in ways that it hasn't in decades. While Republican party leaders and the more respectable conservative commentors will stay relatively subtle, like Golberg and the people who keep childishly harping on Obama's name, does anyone believe that we'll make it to election day without Ann Coulter dropping an n-bomb?
