It's All Politics 4:09 pm Mon September 10, 2012  Political Pro
With Race-Baiting Past Doesn't See It In Romney's Welfare Charge
Originally published on Mon September 10, 2012 5:58 pm  If you
want to get an opinion on whether a presidential campaign's
message is race-baiting, why not ask someone who has actually
been involved in a racially tinged campaign ad or two in his
life?  Carter Wrenn, a longtime North Carolina Republican
political strategist, was part of the team that got one of the
most notorious race-baiting ads of modern American politics on
the airwaves. The ad was for Sen. Jesse Helms' 1990 re-election
campaign against Harvey Gantt, a black Democrat.  In the ad, a
pair of white hands holds a letter; the hands then tear and
crumple it as the narrator intones: "You needed that job. And
you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a
minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair?"  The
creative mind behind the ad was Alex Castellanos, the Republican
consultant who appears freque