Consolation

Even if Obama is re-elected, there will still be Mark Steyn, mocking the president's sycophants (and entertaining the rest of us).

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315661/dog-whistling-past-graveyard-mark-steyn

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/315658/play-clinty-me-mark-steyn (on Eastwood)

Steyn's weekend column (first link above) deals with the absurdity of what the left hears as racist code words. Michelle Malkin has her own take, listing the words (or phrases) in glossary form. Her list isn't comprehensive - for instance, she omitted "pickup truck", symbol of Senator Scott Brown's racism.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/315564/s-racist-michelle-malkin

By the way, who are the targets of these shadowy words? Do conservatives use them to communicate to each other? To pass along subliminal messages to closet racists? To insult and warn minorities? The mind of the leftist is a strange thing indeed.