I can’t make this stuff up.

The GOP felt they needed to conduct a survey to see how much trash-talk McCain can use in the upcoming general election campaign:

The Republican National Committee has commissioned polling and focus groups to determine the boundaries of attacking a minority or female candidate, according to people involved.

Normally, the general standard I tell white people is this: You know what not to say in front of black people in conversation– or women, homosexuals, etc. as the case may be. If you have a question about whether or not to say it, DON’T.

The fact that they hired phone banks and pollsters to figure this ditty out only points to the complete disconnect between the GOP hierarchy and those people not old, rich, male and white.

And those who want to point fingers at the GOP only should read further down in the story:

[The GOP] could simply have asked Joe Biden, John Edwards, Bill Clinton or any number of Democratic politicians who stung over their choice of words in this campaign already.

Foot-in-mouth disease, it seems, is not only a Republican problem.

Filed under: Politics is Personal, Mock the Vote