Check out this video from the DFL -- it's a recording of Ron Carey and Geoff Michel playing the race card against Ashwin Madia this past week:
Here's a hint -- when someone asks if you're using racially charged language in your efforts to set a candidate apart from the voters he's trying to entice, you don't say "that's for voters to decide," you don't say "he's part of a different demographic," and you don't try to explain your idiotic comments away. You say "NO."
It's simple, really, unless you actually are consciously using not-so-subtle racial cues in your talking points -- which it appears Erik Paulsen and his political allies have decided to do. Then you'd be a liar if you simply denied playing the race card, and that wouldn't be good, would it?
Remember that this is a campaign that got all of one TV ad on the air in a light buy before it went on the attack. The entire ordeal smacks of desperation from a desperate party and campaign.
