Unless you’re simply not paying attention, a day never goes by when the Republicans fail to let blacks, gays, Latinos, Muslims, and anyone else they don’t like realize that they’re unwelcome in their party. Today our prime example came at the Republican Leadership Conference in New Orleans. They wisely hired an Obama impersonator to entertain folks and then had to pull him off the stage after he started telling black and gay jokes. Some examples::
• On Black History Month: “Michelle celebrates the full month. I celebrate half.”
• “My mother loved a black man,” but “she was not a Kardashian.”
• Of Tim Pawlenty’s decision not to criticize Mitt Romney at Monday’s debate: “[CNN’s] John King served him up a ball softer than Barney Frank’s backside.”
To their credit, the impersonator was physically removed from the stage and his act was denounced by RLC President and CEO Charlie Davis.
This type of thing simply doesn’t happen at Democratic events. Besides, who can parody George W. Bush looking for WMD’s under his lectern?
