... over Palin, apparently:

... I'm not saying Sarah Palin did that. I'm just saying that there's this subliminal level, subliminal level of communication that goes on. The Southern Strategy has always been — well, since they stopped using the N-word and being explicit about what they're trying to do with race and, you know, creating this "us versus them" dynamic, it became increasingly vague through the years. You started talking about states rights at a certain point. Then you started talking about, you know, these wedge issues like gay marriage and on and on. But ultimately, it's always about an "us and them" dynamic.

Hey! Besides the standard "disagreeing with Obama's healthcare plan is racism" narrative, it's the return of the idiot/genius critique! Sarah Palin isn't sure how to untie her own shoelaces. She didn't know Africa was a continent! She's dumb as a rock! But she also cunningly deploys subliminal mind-control powers!

And, from Alaska, she's secretly running a "Southern Strategy" to control white Southern racists! Like, you know, Russ Carhan's union goons who beat up black men for gittin' uppity! (Whoops! Wrong party, right?*)

Wasn't she a Republican in the past? So: was she too stupid back then to detect the racism? Or was she silently complicit? Or perhaps even an active participant? Where's her mea culpa! for her own alleged guilt in that?

And what was that she said — why are Republicans evil, again? "... it's always about an 'us and them' dynamic", right? And don't forget the wrongness of leveling vague charges. So: let's re-read her statement, again, keeping in mind the sheer raw evilness of setting up that kind of "dynamic":

... there's this subliminal level, subliminal level of communication that goes on... since they stopped using the N-word and being explicit about what they're trying to do with race and, you know, creating this "us versus them" dynamic, it became increasingly vague through the years. You started talking about states rights at a certain point. Then you started talking about, you know, these wedge issues** like gay marriage and on and on...

Um, projection, anyone? Who is this "they", Kathleen? Care to name some names? Let's be specific, shall we? (Yes, of course: "you know".) And care to offer any specific quotes, the way I'm quoting you? And what is this "it", she's on about? (Again, wink, "you know.") She appeals to all the code-words, myths, and bogeymen she knows will induce fear in her liberally-indoctrinated audience. Us. Versus. Them.

Conservatives are being very specific: They're against a specific healthcare plan (Obama's), and for specifically stated reasons (gov't inefficiency, rationing in other countries' systems, increased waste and fraud, diminution of choice, failing to address tort reform, etc.). There are no allegations about a secret, vague healthcare conspiracy coming from the right, and criticism is being offered in the open; names are named, troubling statements are quoted carefully and verbatim.

In contrast, Kathleen sits before a national audience (who trusts what they're hearing) whipping up conspiracy theories about an amorphous "they" — and their allegedly evil intentions and mind-control powers — trying to scare her audience about this vaguely-outlined "them" and the plots "they" carry out in secret (and trying to link them to the left's demon-of-the-moment, the scary, scary Sarah Palin!) — and then pretends she's horrified by and totally against the exact technique she's employing.

Words, obscene or otherwise, cannot even begin to convey my disgust.

My dear Democratic friends, you can have her. Enjoy.

(* Never mind that the Democratic Party was, in fact, the party of the N-word, the K-people, and still, to this day, believes we have to apply race-based standards to all walks of life. ** Likewise, it wasn't "the right" which "started talking about... gay marriage"; that alleged "wedge issue" was also introduced from the left, not the right. If introducing that divisive issue was wrong, she should be sincere and honest about who was "guilty" of it, according to her. But fact don't matter, do they?)