The more I think about Geraldine Ferraro's smug racist comments on behalf of Hillary Clinton, the more I think I'm growing to hate the entire Democratic Party.
Why?
Because so many of our elected officials and party insiders are still supporting Hillary Clinton, who only benefits from this kind of racist garbage which has been emanating from the Clintons and their crew since before the South Carolina primary.
What's the point of these attacks, really, other than to foment racist feelings from within the Democratic party?
One point, which a devil's advocate or an actual demonic person might try to make, is that if Hillary doesn't test out racist, terroristic, dishonest, and slimy personal attacks on Obama, and we don't see how he overcomes them, then how can he stand up to the GOP when they do it?
This is the worst thing our party can do. All we're telling young people is that Democrats are racist, too, and let scare tactics and racism influence their votes. All we're telling Republicans is that they're right to try this stuff. All we're telling every low information voter out there (most of them) that their race-grudges and their base fears might have some validity worth exploring. That this putrid hate is acceptible behavior.
"This is politics," say Hillary's supporters, when endorsing racism. "Politics ain't beanbag," they say, while putting on their best Karl Rove and Joseph Goebbels impressions.
Why are hundreds of our Democratic elected officials still backing this race-baiting horse?
Journalists, national and local to them, need to ask every single Clinton Superdelegate if they're okay with racist innuendo, if they strongly denounce and reject such comments and the people who make them, and if they feel comfortable being associated with hate speech and scare tactics.