Is Republican racism finally unmasking itself?

Mutt Romney's stalking horse, former NH Governor John Sununu came remarkably close to calling the President of the United States a shiftless black man, when he remarked that Obama's performance in the first debate revealed how "lazy and detached he is."

http://thehill.com/video/campaign/260321-romney-surrogate-sununu-calls-obama-lazy

Bill Maher has been accusing the GOP of racism since at least the past two years:

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/david/maher-racists-are-more-likely-be-republicans

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idoXalaOTpE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcB4QvdVt5w

Governor Sununu isn't the only Republican politician dropping his mask these days.  A GOP state representative out of Arkansas says in his new memoir that slavery was a blessing in disguise.

http://www.examiner.com/article/gop-rep-slavery-was-a-blessing-disguise-blacks-don-t-value-education

To wit: “the institution of slavery that the black race has long believed to be an abomination upon its people may actually have been a blessing in disguise. The blacks who could endure those conditions and circumstances would someday be rewarded with citizenship in the greatest nation ever established upon the face of the Earth.”

Why not tell us what you really think, guys?

What irony that this is the party of Lincoln about which I'm speaking.  Next month a new movies starring Daniel Day Lewis as Abe on the eve of the Emancipation Proclamation, will remind us what a great part the GOP once was... the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower.  

What went awry, I wonder.

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