If You Need a Reason to GOTV

This from the left-wing website, The Daily Kos:

But this "Republican wave" - how scary, brrrrrr - is not about that. It's not about the "deficit", it's not about "government spending" - they couldn't care less about all this when they were in power. It's not about health care reform or Wall Street reform either. This is about the black man in the White House.  Hitler signs, Stalin signs - always amuses me how those ignorants can't tell the difference - Fox News lies, smears and nastiness, racists emails, "Magic Negro", all that started a long time before President Obama made even one move. Way before health care reform, and even before the stimulus - which not even one economist will argue that it didn't prevent second depression and if anything was too small - it was all a growing reaction to the election of the first black president.

This is what they think of us on the Left.  There are tens of millions of conservatives who were against nationalizing healthcare, against the federal government spending money it didn't have, against the idea of higher taxes, against abortion, concerned about our schools and our culture, and worried about threats from our enemies abroad long before they had ever heard of a State Senator from Illinois named Barack Obama.  But, now, because our opinions didn't change when an African-American was elected President, we're racists.   African-Americans are our co-workers, our partners, our neighbors, our fellow parishioners, our friends, and, more and more often, our family.  But because we disagree politically with policies of the President, we're racists. 

It's a sickening, infantile, undemocratic (because it shuts down debate) position.  GOTV!  But, when you do GOTV, be kind, be polite, be careful. 

UPDATE:

I thought it was just The Daily Kos.  But here's Eugene Robinson from The Washington Post today:

I ask myself what's so different about Obama, and the answer is pretty obvious: He's black. For whatever reason, I think this makes some people unsettled, anxious, even suspicious - witness the willingness of so many to believe absurd conspiracy theories about Obama's birthplace, his religion and even his absent father's supposed Svengali-like influence from the grave.

Please.  President Obama has acted against the will of the majority of Americans to enact a nationalized healthcare plan that is already turning a huge portion of our economy upside-down.  He's adopted federal budgets with trillion-dollar deficients to hand down to our children and grandchildren.  He's blithely planning to allow a huge tax increase to take place in less than 60 days when the Bush tax cuts expire.   He has bowed to foreign dictators and apologized for America abroad.  And, all the while, he's condescended to those of us who disagree, just as Robinson does here.  "Unsettled, anxious, even suspicious"?   It's the Left's new mantra, straight out of the Stalinist playbook -- if you disagree with us politically, you must be insane.   It's despicable and pathetic to take this position in a democracy. 

And, oh, by the way, some on the Right might have less time for "absurd conspiracy theories about Obama's birthplace, his religion and even his absent father's supposed Svengali-like influence from the grave" if (a) Obama simply produced his birth certificate, which is a very ordinary thing that many Americans do every day, for instance, when applying for a new passport; (b) if he hadn't spent 20 years in the church of a raving lunatic like Jeremiah Wright, who Obama himself disowned in the midst of his Presidential campaign; and (c) if Obama hadn't first come to fame by writing a freaking book about how much his father had influenced him!  I'm pretty sure Eugene Robinson has a copy of this little-known best-freaking-seller called Dreams of My Father.

Sheesh!