See this combination of multiple posts from a dailykos dairy:
Xenophobia?That's What You're Going With? by Hunter Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 03:31:06 PM PDT

"Republicans playing the race card:

"Observant folks know that this is far from the first time Republicans have played the race card. If you oppose school vouchers, you're a racist. If you oppose Social Security phase-out, you're a racist. Heck, if you opposed the invasion of Iraq, that made you a racist, because you were saying that "those people" weren't capable of democracy.

We were branded as racists - anti-Italian racists - for referring to Justice Alito as Scalito...

Other examples of Republicans playing the race card:

Anyone who opposed Clarence Thomas was a racist, not simply concerned by the fact that he was not terribly bright, a demonstrated liar and a first-order right wing nutcase.
I believe similar accusations of anti-Latino bias were thrown around during the Gonzales AG confirmation hearings.

If you support Civil Rights legislation, you're a racist. Because it's "demeaning" to suggest that blacks, Hispanics, or Native Americans can't pull themselves up by their own bootstraps in the face of some little thing like officially sanctioned legal discrimination"
Source: various posters to that thread

Also see this particular post from that thread:
"I know racism
But concerns about this deal from where I sit are hardly racist. I happen to be a black woman who lives in one of the port cities. I work across the street from the Port of Miami, where drugs manage to come through fairly regularly already.

I do care who runs port operations, and resent the idea that any foreign government gets the opportunity. I would have been just as pissed had I known the Brits were running the show till now.

For Dubya to play the race card is silly. Well, no it isn't. He's used race to scare his base whenever they threatened to get out of line.

The only good thing about this particular mess is that the race baiting is biting him in the ass -- big time.

by CocoaLove on Fri Feb 24, 2006 at 03:58:57 PM PDT