RNC to Racists: Call Me!

Did the tacky Harold Ford ad backfire? The contorversey of the morning suggests so.

Was that ad racist? Must admit it didn't seem so to us...at first. However, its widely acknowledged that race does play a role in Tennesee politics, and if he wins, Harold Ford would be the first black senator from the South since reconstruction. And would you want to be an interacial couple with a flat tire rural Tennesee?

Bearing that in mind, and looking again, it just might be making a subtle (nearly subliminal) play toward old old fears.