Republicans like Herman Cain? That's racist! Talk about damned if you do, damned if you don't! The left regularly claims that racism explains Republican opposition to Barack Obama. But let Republicans support a black candidate, and--guess what?--race is behind that too!
On Cenk Uygur's MSNBC show yesterday, Richard Eskow, of the left-wing Campaign For America's Future, claimed that there is "an element of race" behind Herman Cain's popularity in GOP primary polls.
RICHARD ESKOW: He has a very impressive career, as Matt [Lewis of the Daily Caller] was saying, but in a completely different field. You know, Ted Nugent made a lot of hit records, and I'm sure if he were in here he'd have the name recognition that Mr. Cain does and he'd be polling well too. The flippant answer about his chances is he does well among more-informed Republican voters, but the more-informed voters aren't the ones that pick candidates lately. So I don't know how real his chances are. I do know he's run a very mean-spirited and hard-right campaign, and let's face it I think that there is a certain element of race in this factor, in this whole issue.
