Matthews: Some GOPers Talk ‘Like They Think the Base Is Wearing Sheets’

Chris Matthews tonight looked at some of the more questionable recent statements from Republicans, from Mike Huckabee saying no one should join the military while President Obama‘s still in office to Wayne LaPierre saying eight years of a “demograhically-symbolic” president is enough.

Matthews was a little bothered by that last one, and asked why any part of the GOP base would “have a problem with a black president.” David Corn said this is just part of an ongoing attempt to make Obama into “the other” and say “he’s not an American” and amp up the rhetoric more and more so they get more attention.

Matthews and his panel were also bothered by Huckabee’s comments, which Corn deemed anti-patriotic.

“Some of these guys,” Matthews observed, “talk like they think the base is wearing sheets, though. I think they may have underestimated who the Republican voter is.”

Watch the video below, via MSNBC:

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