Why isn't Mary Landrieu smart enough to play the race card properly?

'Mary had a little scam To fleece the voters' views And everywhere her campaign went Her race scam made the news.'

Most of us are dumbstruck by the over-exploitation of the race card by Democrats. Their exaggerated playing of the race card is incredibly cliched and worn out. Do they really think that voters are gullible enough to swallow their hokum? Do they really believe that the intellects of American voters are that small? If I were a black voter I would be incensed that Democratic candidates assume that I was boneheaded enough to fall for these idiotic racial accusations.

In their dependence on the race card, Democrats running for election have finally hit bottom. There are so many glaring, foolish Democratic racial accusations that it is nearly impossible to pick the worst example. But unquestionably the award goes to Louisiana's Mary Landrieu. Maryland's black candidate for governor, Anthony Brown, sent out a mailer with pictures of MLK, a “colored waiting room” sign, a “must show ID to vote,” sign; racists marching against civil rights, and Donald Trump superimposed over a billboard reading “Where’s the birth certificate?” Michelle Nunn, the Georgia Democratic Party's senate candidate, sent out a flier that shows a photo of two children holding signs that read “Don’t Shoot”, followed by the words: “If you want to prevent another Ferguson in their future…vote.”

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Campaigning for Ms. Nunn and his grandson, Jason Carter, who is running for Georgia's Governor, former President Jimmy Carter stressed the importance of voting for Democrats: "I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African-American. Racism ... still exists ...” When New York Representative Charles Rangel was asked if Republican opposition to Obama is animated by racism, his answer was in the form of a question: “Are most of the states that they represent, are they in the Confederate states that fought the Union? Were they slaveholder states? And when they come to Washington, do you see more Confederate flags than American flags?” North Carolina's incumbent Senator, Kay Hagan, sent out a flier claiming that if she wasn't reelected Obama would be impeached. Her flier included black and white images of a lynching. With all these absolutely absurd race card ploys by Democratic candidates, how could anyone imagine that political posturing by Mary Landrieu could get any worse? Well it did. Not because she used the same old tired tactics; other Democratic candidates also used them - and not because she combined the race card with the war on women, two favorite Democratic ploys. Other Democratic candidates have also used both stratagems. But because Mary Landrieu chose to move away from Republicans and target the citizens of her own region. On national television, Landrieu said: “To be very, very honest with you, the South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans. It’s been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a very positive light as a leader. It’s not always been a good place for women to present ourselves.” Is this Mary Landrieu's opinion of the people she is asking to vote for her? Possibly, Ms. Landrieu thinks that Louisiana's blacks and Liberal Democrats comprise a large enough voting bloc to return her to office. So she can insult the rest of the citizens of Louisiana in order to curry favor with those select groups. But it appears that Ms. Landrieu was so awed by the television cameras that she inadvertently voiced behind-closed-doors views instead of the usual carefully crafted campaign talk. It will be interesting to watch while her staff scrambles to construct a remedy for all the damage she's caused to her campaign.