Latinos and African-Americans will be running for office more aggressively than ever before.

And there will be Muslims, and Buddhists, and Hindus, all of whom will have dark hair, dark eyes, and skin in various shades of brown.

One thing the GOP has done well over the last 8 years or so is play the victim and throw bombs at their opponents.

Oh no, it’s much longer than 8 years that they’ve been good at that! Have you ever watched or read Vice Presidential candidate Richard Nixon’s 1952 “Checkers speech”? It’s a triumph of victimhood! There’s a whole subset of Republican political strategy and strategists who cut their teeth on President Nixon’s tactical style of professional victimhood. Karl Rove is one of the most prominent of them. Then there’s Newt Gingrich, one of the nation’s least liked politicians who first made a name for himself by making incindiary speeches on the House floor at the end of the day, when the House was essentially deserted. He wasn’t making those speeches to his colleagues. He was making them for the cable television camera that recorded the House’s proceedings. That was no accident. It was deliberate. No, all in all, it hasn’t been simply 8 years of victim mongering and bomb throwing, it’s been 50 years of victim mongering and 20 of bomb throwing.

Republican Sessions was also the Republican leader that regularly called a black employee “boy”.

One thing the GOP has done well over the last 8 years or so is play the victim and throw bombs at their opponents. Oh and they also lie quite often, or should I say mis-speak, like Rep Boehner did the other day regarding stimulus funds in Ohio. Not to say that the Dem’s don’t have their own deceptive practices.

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/07/sesssions-crusade-sotomayor/