Republicans have been charging Jimmy Carter and Nancy Pelosi of injecting the race card into the current political discussion regarding the current Teabag Movement.

Once more Republicans are engaging in blatant hypocrisy.  After all, Republicans invented the race card.

It was launched as a means of regaining power in the mid-sixties.  This occurred after President Lyndon B. Johnson, the first Southerner to become president since the Reconstruction, conceded to associates that his active leadership in the civil rights field, culminating with passage of the landmark 1964 Civil Rights Bill and the 1965 Voting Rights Act, meant loss of the South for Democrats for the next 50 years.

The Republicans under Richard Nixon devised a "law and order" and "Southern strategy" campaign.  Lee Atwater later admitted that his participation in this and subsequent Republican efforts to win the South involved using these code terms to signal voters regarding what they were really talking about -- civil rights.