Opposing Obamacare is the New Racism

When all else fails, fall back on the race card. From Jim Geraghty:

This morning on XM's POTUS I heard audio of Congressman John Dingell, D-Mich, appearing on Ed Schultz's program, telling the host that the health care protesters remind him of those who objected to the Civil Rights Act, specifically comparing them to Ku Klux Klan members and white supremacists.

Dingell got a bit of a rough ride in his recent town hall meeting in Michigan.

But that's not the only example of the new racism. An MSNBC anchor tells us that "socialist" is the new "n-word":

So, I guess if you suggest that Obamacare is socialist, you're ready for your white sheet, hood, and flaming cross.

Don't think for a moment this isn't a planned strategy. Democrats know how incendiary allegations of racism can be...or used to be before all the outrage was used up by calling any criticism of Obama racist. While they may continue to trot out this tried-and-true demagoguery, I think it will likely backfire on them. Sooner or later people wake up and realize that not everything that doesn't agree with Obama or Democrats can possibly be racist.

The term "racist" is losing its meaning.

Maybe Obama will turn out to be the post-racial president. When everything becomes racist, nothing is racist and perhaps we can move on to more important matters.