Democrat name calling against black candidates

Washington Times Editorial:

The Democratic strategy against black Republicans is easy enough to understand: Call them sellouts; label them dupes of the racist Republican machine; link them to as many white conservatives as possible; and repeat. Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele is no stranger to this program ever since the Baltimore Sun editorialized that the only thing he brought to the gubernatorial ticket of Robert Ehrlich was "the color of his skin." Now, with Mr. Steele's Senate campaign scaring the wits out of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, The Washington Post saw reason to run a tidy little hit piece Monday headlined "Steele's Donor List Stirs Racial Questions."
With such an ominous sounding headline, you might think Mr. Steele accepted a donation from a known Klansman or skinhead. Alas, reporter Matthew Mosk digs so deep into the Federal Election Commission campaign finance reports -- available online to everyone -- he uncovers the astounding news that Mr. Steele has taken donations from Republicans. Adding insult to injury, they were white. It turns out that one of the donors, Floyd Brown, who produced the now-infamous "Willie Horton" ad in the 1988 presidential campaign, actually held a June 22 fundraiser for Mr. Steele.
Mr. Mosk doesn't enlighten his readers about what the "Willie Horton" ad was, but he writes that "it came to symbolize the cynical use of skin color as a political wedge." That's one way of putting it. Another, more accurate way is that the ad exposed the dangerous Massachusetts furlough program for felons that became a campaign issue between Vice President George H.W. Bush and Mass. Gov. Michael Dukakis.

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You would think that the fact that the guy behind the ad is openly supporting a black candidate is proof that the Willie Horton ad was never about race, but about a bad Dukasis policy. Otherwise why would he be supporting a black man? It should also be noted that the first candidate to raise this issue agianst Dukakis was none other than Al Gore.

Democrats have a way of creating shorthand descriptions as a way to demonize effective campaign ads agist them. Willie Horton was their term for effective ads agist them until 2004 when it became Swiftboating. What they really hate about both these ads is that they were true and that they demonstrated the weakness of their candidate for President. To the Democrats, it is really hatelful when you tell the truth about them.