Awww. Ain’t it sweet? The RNC wants to make sure its potentially sexist, racist attacks don’t offend anybody! “The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate, according to people involved. The secretive effort underscores the enormous risk senior GOP operatives see for a party often criticized for its insensitivity to minorities in campaigns dating back to the 1960s.” How thoughtful! [Politico]
And they’ve already stumbled. According to the article’s source, “Republicans will need to exercise less deafness and more deftness in dealing with a different looking candidate” – somehow missing the fact that, for many of us, blacks and women aren’t “different.”