UGLY – AT 9:56 A.M. ET:  Have you noticed how Hillary Clinton is increasingly playing the race card?  And then of course she's got the gender card.  And probably some other cards that, when played, divide us and turn the race ugly.  From the American Spectator: 

Well, that didn’t take long.

Here we are barely at the half-way mark of the year before the presidential election — and right on cue Hillary Clinton is out there playing the race card, this time using the vehicle of voter ID cards. Ah yes. Nothing like using racism to stir the liberal base.

In last year’s election cycle Americans had to wait until the closing days of the campaign before Democrats running for office in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, and North Carolina began the usual left-wing race baiting. The Wall Street Journal noted this here-we-go-again tactic in an October 26, 2014 editorial titled: “The 2014 Race Card: Democratic appeals to racial division are worse than ever.”

True. And that’s saying something. Also, noted the WSJ: “Black voter turnout exceeded white turnout in states like Georgia and Indiana after voter ID laws passed.”

Right. But pay no attention to the reality that African-American voters, like every other American, already possess ID cards or they could never navigate a society that requires a picture ID for everything from getting a book out of the local library to driving a car, cashing a check or buying a plane ticket and oh so much more.

Yet here we are again, this time with Hillary Clinton making the racial pitch at Texas South University. In an irony of ironies, she was accepting an award named for former Texas Rep. Barbara Jordan, an African-American who made her mark impeaching a president who lied to the American people back there in 1974. As one recalls, Mrs. Clinton has a distinctively selective approach to presidents who look the American people in the eye and don’t tell the truth. Mrs. Clinton, it must also be noted, is only the latest in a very, very long line of prominent Democrats stretching back centuries to employ the formula of stirring racial animosity to win votes for the progressive agenda.

COMMENT:  Read the whole piece.  It's great.  The Dems are getting ugly early.  It's going to be a vicious campaign, a campaign designed to portray Republicans as racists, bigots, and soldiers in a war on women.  The GOP should snap back quickly, and vigorously.   One of the problems of the 2008 and 2012 campaigns was that Republicans were too gentlemanly.

And our side should also snap back against the press when it misrepresents us or publishes regular hit pieces against our candidates, but not the other side's.  You may notice that The New York Times is now engaging in its usual practice of trying to tear down any Republican who seeks the highest office. 

June 9, 2015