Jonah Goldberg Plays the Race Card

...and, I might add, he's right on schedule. What a pantload:

I think it's worth imagining a certain scenario. Imagine the Democrats do rally around Obama. Imagine the media invests as heavily in him as I think we all know they will if he's the nominee -- and then imagine he loses. I seriously think certain segments of American political life will become completely unhinged. I can imagine the fear of this social unraveling actually aiding Obama enormously in 2008...Obama has a rendezvous with destiny, or so we will be told. And if he's denied it, teeth shall be gnashed, clothes rent and prices paid. [emphasis added]

Fear, uncertainty, doubt. That's all Republicans have left. No inspiration, no future, no policies, no hope. Since the days of Lee Atwater and Ronald Reagan, they've built their electoral dominance on racial politics and they'll continue to do it during this campaign because that's what they do:

You start out in 1954 by saying, 'N----r, n----r, n----r.' By 1968 you can't say 'n----r' - that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.

And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me - because obviously sitting around saying, 'We want to cut this,' is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than 'N----r, n----r.'

So don't kid yourself: Jonah Goldberg is just taking a page out of the old Republican playbook because that's what they do.