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That must have been a really boring debate
By Ned | July 15, 2007
Image courtesy of the Detroit News
The exact reason for why this happened still eludes me. I don’t see a whole lot of political benefit in all of the Republican candidates excusing themselves from an NAACP event, but this isn’t a new thing for Republicans in general. Anyone remember this?
Amanda Marcotte argues that the candidates are appealing to a racist Republican base. Although I don’t doubt that there are racists among the far-right base of the party, I’m still not sure that I buy that full-out racists make up a significant enough portion of the base to be worth openly courting like this.
But on the other hand, I don’t see this getting much press outside of the news junkies on either side, the people who wouldn’t vote for a Republican candidate no matter what anyway, and the people who are voting in the Republican primary.
Now that I think about it, some of this may have to do with a perception in the Republican Party of the NAACP as a leftist organization - in other words, the candidates could rationalize it by arguing that they’re not attending the debate for the same reason Democratic candidates refused to attend a FOX News debate. But that goes back to some of the racist undertones in the Republican Party - as in, if you believe that the NAACP is an adversary of the Republican Party, why is that?
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