Williams says:
The language of GOP racial politics is heavy on euphemisms that allow the speaker to deny any responsibility for the racial content of his message. The code words in this game are “entitlement society” — as used by Mitt Romney — and “poor work ethic” and “food stamp president” — as used by Newt Gingrich. References to a lack of respect for the “Founding Fathers” and the “Constitution” also make certain ears perk up by demonizing anyone supposedly threatening core “old-fashioned American values.”
Patterico's response is pretty good, and you can read it here, but I especially like what commenter "Milhouse" had to say in reply:
"...The game the left is playing is an old one: get universal agreement that X is bad, and then slowly shift the definition of X to include more and more things that were never agreed to be bad. The syllogism goes “If X is bad, and Y is X, then Y must be bad.” But the correct response is “Y was never bad before, and it doesn’t become bad by defining it as X..."
YES. That HAS TO be our message. If, like me, you're sick to death of liberal democrats defining any idea or statement they can't fight or refute as "racism", then we need to take that message as wide as we can. Talking about food stamps, entitlements, work ethic, etc. were never racist before, so they're not now.
All presidential candidates have faced opposition before, but now all opponents to Obama, either in 2008 or 2012, are racist? No, because opposition to the president was never racist before, so it's not now.
President Obama has been a cataclysmic failure as president. It wasn't racist to point this out about George W. Bush, or any president before him, so it isn't racist to do so about Obama.
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