november 21, 2016 by 21wire leave a comment 




william mcgurn wall street journal 




let<u+2019>s get this straight. calling hillary clinton a <u+201c>bigot<u+201d> has reporters asking every republican in sight if donald trump has gone too far. but the clinton campaign releases a video saying mr. trump is the candidate of the ku klux klan, and it<u+2019>s all okey-dokey? 




then again, mr. trump has already been likened to hitler, mussolini and stalin. small wonder there<u+2019>s a collective ho-hum when democratic vice presidential nominee tim kaine says mr. trump is peddling <u+201c>kkk values.<u+201d> 




this is what democrats do. it didn<u+2019>t start with mr. trump, either. for years democrats have portrayed the gop as one giant hate group. 




each presidential election, the drill goes like this: 




after republicans nominate someone, he immediately finds himself having to prove he<u+2019>s not a hater <u+2013> of african-americans, of women, of gays, etc. 




this year democrats added a twist. mr. trump, they claim, represents a break with all those decent and lovable republicans such as mitt romney , john mccain and george w. bush . of course, this isn<u+2019>t what they were saying back when these men were running for president. 




<u+2022> in 2000, for example, an naacp ad recreated the gruesome murder of james byrd to imply that then-gov. bush was sympathetic to lynching black men. over footage of a chain being dragged by a pickup truck, mr. byrd<u+2019>s daughter says, <u+201c>so when gov. george w. bush refused to support hate-crimes legislation, it was like my father was killed all over again.<u+201d> 




<u+2022> when john mccain ran in 2008, barack obama warned that republicans would scare people by saying, <u+201c>you know, he doesn<u+2019>t look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills.<u+201d> the mccain campaign fired back, accusing mr. obama of playing the race card from the <u+201c>bottom of the deck.<u+201d> funny thing: all those reporters always hearing <u+201c>dog whistles<u+201d> from republicans somehow didn<u+2019>t hear this one. 




<u+2022> in 2012, when mitt romney went to the naacp and told them face-to-face about his opposition to obamacare, the stories were all about how he was really just trolling for the racist vote. vice president joe biden put it more explicitly, telling a largely african-american audience that if mr. romney were to win, he<u+2019>d <u+201c>put ya<u+2019>ll back in chains.<u+201d> 




the only difference today is that republicans now have a nominee giving as good as he gets<u+2026>
flashback - hillary clinton<u+2019>s <u+2018>kkk<u+2019> smear against trump was democrat strategy
mike rivero