Democratic representative Jim Moran of Virginia went the Arab television network Alhurra and blamed his party's November election losses on racism. I offer Representative Moran's statement that "a lot of people in this country ... don't want to be governed by an African-American" as proof that liberal politicians have lost the policy argument. Liberals have a curious habit of smearing their opponents when reality doesn't support their position. The more facts don't jibe with their position the stronger the calls are of racism or hate speech. This tactic has been used from Tea Party to Sarah Palin and has been around since Reagan tried to get Bork onto the Supreme Court.
According to Politico, representative Moran isn't backing away from his statement.
Sickeningly, it is all the argument that the left has. They can't blame themselves for not having an agenda that was good for the country, so this is all they have. Spend us into oblivion was all they had. They wanted all the social programs they could get no matter what the people in this country thought about it. They truly do think they are smarter than all the rest of us.