5 times liberals have called conservatives racist

No new ground was broken when Hillary Clinton called Donald Trump supporters a “basket of deplorables” and accused the Republican nominee of running his campaign on a racist platform. Liberals have been hurling these kinds of accusations at conservatives for decades.

Labeling conservatives racist is a favored tactic because how it tarnishes the perception of candidates who aren’t actually racist at all. But optics are the key ingredient in politics, so , if a Democratic candidate can convince voters the opposition thrives in bigotry, they will earn votes for life.

Below are 5 times this has happened in the past. Click CONTINUE:

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1. Liberal Gore Vidal called conservative William Buckley a “crypto-Nazi”

During the tense racial period of 1968, accusations of racism, Nazism, and fascism were constantly being thrown from the Left to the Right. But there was one high-profile moment between Gore Vidal and William Buckley in their debate at the Republican National Convention in which the rhetoric reached the most listeners.

As Denise McAllister at PJ Media explained, ABC had plastered the television screen with images of “police brutality” which implied that a “police state” in Chicago was being run by racist Republicans. Buckley pointed out that “it was all imagery” and warned against making one incident look like there is “a case for implicit totalitarianism in the American system.”

Vidal had no real defense to Buckley’s well-delivered points and so he did what any good liberal would do and resorted to name calling and so he said Buckley was a “crypto-Nazi.”

After losing the debate, Vidal doubled down, saying Buckley “establish[ed] him[self] as anti-black, anti-Semitic, and pro-war,” proving that Leftists aren’t interested in debate; just hurling accusations of bigotry.

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2. Democrat Jimmy Carter accused Republican Ronald Reagan of stirring up racism

“In 1980,” McAllister writes, “Jimmy Carter accused Reagan of stirring up racist hate by using ‘code words like “states rights’” werein a speech in Mississippi.’ In an interview with 60 Minutes, Reagan responded to the allegations, accusing Civil Rights leaders of doing what the Left does: keeping the appearance of racism alive so they can maintain their power. And keep it alive is exactly what they’ve done, maligning any effort to conserve American values and American culture with the smear of racism.”

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3. Anyone opposed to Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012 was called racists

When it came to possibly electing America’s first black president in 2008, there was going to be no way to avoid hearing cries of racism against anyone that opposed Barack Obama’s politics. And that inevitability didn’t disappoint.

When questions arose in ’08 about Obama’s birthplace, those were painted as racist. (Even though the first accusations came from inside Hillary Clinton’s campaign.) In a post-9/11 world, hearing the name Barack Hussein Obama conjured up negative thoughts for many Americans. Especially from someone who had written he loved hearing the call to Muslim prayer as a youngster. Add to that the controversy of his “Christian” pastor, and close confidant, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who once screamed from the pulpit, “Not God bless America, but God damn America,” many were confused and questioned Obama’s true faith. That’s racism, according to the liberal media.

Here was Cokie Roberts analysis at the time. She declared the “Obama’s a Muslim” conspiracy was birthed because white Americans know it’s not acceptable to say, “I don’t like him because he’s black,” where it’s more acceptable to say you don’t like him because he’s a Muslim.

Are you getting the idea of how this works, now?

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4. The media labeled Mitt Romney and others racist during the 2012 campaign

McAllister writes:

Mitt Romney felt the heat of it. Look at some of these headlines from 2012:

• “Nine most racist moments of the 2012 election”
• “As the Romney Campaign unskews, will the GOP’s Racist ID Take Over?”
• “Romney and the Deceptive Use of Racist Language”
• “Republicans are Racists…And they’re not shy about it”
• “White Racist Supporters Crushed When Mitt Romney Lost to Barack Obama”

And here’s “The 10 Most Racist Moments of the GOP Primary (So Far)” in which the author writes something that could be published today:

“The Republican Party is digging deep into the old bucket of white racism, using the politics of fear, hostility and anxiety to win over white voters.”

The labeling even came from the Right. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former Colin Powell aide, said:

“My party, unfortunately, is the bastion of those people — not all of them but most of them — who are still basing their decisions on race. Let me just be candid. My party is full of racists.”

He was excoriated by Republicans then, but today, too many of them sound just like Wilkerson. Somehow all those people they defended in 2012 have magically transformed into racists in 2016.

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5. When Kanye West said George W. Bush doesn’t care about black people

Rapper Kanye West delivered one of the most memorable sound bites of 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and other parts of the Gulf Coast. During a celebrity-filled telethon to raise money for the victims, West deviated from the script, crying racism against relief efforts he felt were too slow.

“I hate the way they portray us in the media,” he said. “You see a black family, it says, ‘They’re looting.’ You see a white family, it says, ‘They’re looking for food.’”

West added, “They’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us.”

He was standing next to actor/comedian Mike Myers who stayed on script and had to roll with the awkwardness of West’s ad-lib. But when it came for the rapper to speak again, West dropped the bomb that got his mic cut:

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”

With that one sentence, Katrina became Bush’s fault. And that’s the aim of this truly deplorable tactic.