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Is the Republican Party a racist political party? I said no; some of our readers said yes. Here are some of your responses, with some extra commentary by me.

“The issue of race and American politics,” Glenn Thrush and Donovan Slack wrote in a recent Politico article, “never far beneath the surface during Barack Obama’s historic 2008 campaign, is making a loud, overt and surprisingly early appearance in the 2012 presidential race.” What evidence do Thrush and Slack present to make their case?

This week, Chris Cillizza, a Washington Post reporter who runs a popular political blog, “The Fix,” argued, along with Aaron Blake, that Barack Obama is the most partisan president ever.

Will the Republican Party be dumb enough to nominate Newt Gingrich? This is what GOP elites must be asking themselves. For if Newt were to be the nominee, Barack Obama would surely receive a second term.

The funny thing about sports is that losses always pain more than wins gratify. I was reminded of this thought (or, rather, bludgeoned in the head with it) after my beloved Green Bay Packers were eliminated from the NFL playoffs by the New York Giants this past weekend.

The race for the Republican nomination is now Mitt Romney’s to lose. He has always been the frontrunner, but now, after winning the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, it would take a gaffe of Cainian proportions to knock Romney off, and that just is not going to happen.

The race for the Republican nomination is now Mitt Romney’s to lose. He has always been the frontrunner, but now, after winning the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary, it would take a gaffe of Cainian proportions to knock Romney off, and that just is not going to happen.

As this publication’s token Christian conservative, I guess I should respond to Sam Cosby’s post decrying Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry’s candidacy and an advertisement he put out.
Sam is incorrect when he calls Perry’s campaign commercial a “blunder.” Perry must win the Republican primary, and the vast majority of Republicans are against making gay marriage [...]

By now, everyone knows Pat Hill, the erstwhile football coach of Fresno State, was fired by the school he has coached for 15 years. He was, as he put it in his closing press conference, a “dinosaur.”