The racial subtext underlying Romney's campaign

[J. J.]

Well the whole "Obama wants to hand out welfare checks to his base" thing is at least class warfare (which is ironic), but there are racial undertones too

Yes, it is very anti-Caucasian, since a majority of the welfare recipients are white.

[J. J.]

I was a welfare caseworker for 5 years, and whenever I told someone that I was, they would complain about welfare.  That fell into two groups:

1.  White people who would complain about their brother-in-law, or neighbor, who was almost always white.  The majority.

2.  Black people who would complain about how low class, and generally evil, people on welfare were.  My black supervisor, who grew up in the neighborhood where our office was, wanted to put everyone in camps.  She's a Democrat.

I only had one white guy complaining about "all the black people" getting welfare.  He was sitting in the booth getting a re-evaluation when he said it.  

I think the whole claim of some racial subtext is both silly and probably has a racial subtext of its own.

[J. J.]

But hey, it appears that this campaign is going to be down and dirty. This attack lowers the bar to the level of how you can just make stuff up. So I guess the next step will be for Axelrod and company to come up with their own ridiculously unfounded attack that gins up part of the Dem base. ...and the campaign will continue to spiral down into the muck

They tried that with Bane.

[J. J.]

But hey, it appears that this campaign is going to be down and dirty. This attack lowers the bar to the level of how you can just make stuff up. So I guess the next step will be for Axelrod and company to come up with their own ridiculously unfounded attack that gins up part of the Dem base. ...and the campaign will continue to spiral down into the muck

They tried that with Bane.

Bain - The venture capital company headed by Mitt Romney
Bane - The ruthless villain in "The Dark Knight Rises"

I guess the attacks are working, even subconsciously

Yes, the hero is rich and the villain has the support of the lower classes, who try to destroy everything.