GOP Madness, Sour 16, match 4

Today we're hitting the halfway mark of the second round. The bracket is here.

1. RICK PERRY'S NIGGERHEAD RANCH (with Cain bonus!)

In the early years of his political career, Rick Perry began hosting fellow lawmakers, friends and supporters at his family's secluded West Texas hunting camp, a place known by the name painted in block letters across a large, flat rock standing upright at its gated entrance.

'Niggerhead,' it read.

Original writeup here.

Remember'this is a two-fer. It wasn't just the fact that the governor of Texas had a ranch with this kind of name on it. But look what happened when Herman Cain tried to make the supposedly uncontroversial point that the ranch name was offensive:

At RedState, Erick Erickson concluded, "It also seems to be a slander Herman Cain is picking up and running with as a way to get into second place." Glenn Reynolds remarked that until now, Cain's "big appeal is that he's not just another black race-card-playing politician." Over at the Daily Caller, Matt Lewis called Cain's remarks "a cheap shot, and, perhaps a signal that Cain is willing to play the race card against a fellow Republican when it benefits him."

Rather than recoil from the ranch's name, the conservative movement rallied around it.

2. MITT ROMNEY THINKS CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE, MY FRIENDS

Original writeup here.

Corporations are people, my friend... of course they are. Everything corporations earn ultimately goes to the people. Where do you think it goes? Whose pockets? Whose pockets? People's pockets. Human beings my friend.

Mitt Romney is qualified to talk about human beings, given that he, Mitt Romney, is also a human being, right?

Well, that's debatable. But at least the Romneybot was honest with this. It's not every day that Republicans admit to putting legal entities on the same level as real people.