So stay tuned. when does a pattern start to look like a deliberate strategy? when it s an election year. check out some of the examples that have a few reporters connecting the dots. the republican base does have elements that are animated by racism and that s unfortunate. i asked a republican friend why his party remains so opposed to extending the vital lifelines for struggling families and really hungry children. what he said was to the republican caucus these people you are talking about are invisible and the republican caucus is indifferent to them. they want to open up a new front on the war in women and this one cruelly focuses on poor women. these people who hold themselves the same type of abio ....