Sarah Palin aid, Nicole Wallace, agrees that the Tea Party should renounce racism

On the This Week roundtable yesterday Nicolle Wallace, introduced to the audience as the “former Bush White House communications director,” weighed in on the NAACP’s decision.

What Jake Tapper neglected to mention in his intro was that Wallace was also head of Sarah Palin’s campaign after she was tapped by Sen John McCain to be his running mate, and received some “prime if not necessarily flattering space” in Palin’s memoir Going Rogue.

In light of that rocky-ish relationship, and because Wallace has always seemed to be one of the more grounded voices coming out of the right, it was extra interesting to hear her reflect on the lack of responsible leadership in the Tea Party movement. Nicolle Wallace said:

Any member of this powerful, promising and very relevant movement should stand up and condemn anything that you wouldn’t want to see your children participate in. 

And I can’t imagine there’s any parent in America who would approve of any of the racist signs that show up at any rally. So I think this is easy. I don’t think this is about the leadership. 

I don’t think this is about waiting for the leaders of your movement. And people say, oh, they’re young, it’s not clear where the structure — forget about that. 

Any individual at a rally where — where — where any sign or insinuation of racism appears should condemn it. And it’ll only strengthen the movement and make them more relevant. 

Is this an example the post-racial kool aide the GOP has been trying to sell to America. 


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