He said WHAT??? Yep, he said it.
Rep. Doug Lamborn likened compromising with Obama to "touching a tar baby" on talk radio today. But he probably didn't mean to use the racially charged term in a racist way, right? There's no way he missed the lesson from John McCain's "tar baby" blunder, or Mitt Romney's "tar baby" blunder, or Tony Snow's "tar baby" blunder, right?
In case you don't have the audio, here's exactly what Lamborn said.
Now I don’t even want to have to be associated with [Obama], it’s like touching a tar baby and you’re stuck, you’re part of the problem now. You can’t get away.
Now let's see Lamborn play the game of claiming he had "no idea" about the racial connotations of the word. And then watch right-wing media defend him and say that the phrase isn't inherently racist, and forgetting decades of the civil rights struggle in the process.
If you're wondering, Lamborn represents Colorado Springs, the home of James Dobson's Focus on the Family. One guess as to whether Dobson will defend or denounce his Congressman for saying something like this. And if you think he'll denounce it, you really haven't been paying attention for the last three years, have you?