The Tea Party Still Doesn't Get it!

This ad aired during the superbowl...It's an ad for Republican Pete Hoekstra who is running for the State Senate in Michigan...Once again...The tea Party is employing race baiting as a tactic..

Pete Hoekstra's campaign aired an ad on Sunday depicting an Asian woman speaking in broken English, facetiously thanking Stabenow for encouraging federal spending.

"Thank you Michigan Sen. Debbie Spend-it-now. Debbie spends so much American money -- you borrow more and more from us. Your economy get very weak; ours get very good. We take your jobs," the woman says in the ad.

The backdrop is meant to evoke China. In a statement announcing the ad, Pete Hoekstra decried "Our reliance on foreign countries like China," a top buyer of American debt.

Pete Hoekstra, a former Republican congressman who unsuccessfully pursued his party's gubernatorial nomination in 2010, appears at the end of the ad to tout his own fiscal hawkishness. The ad additionally directs viewers to a website featuring a variety of generic Asian imagery in connection to Stabenow.

The website includes Chinese script -- "Xianzai Daibi Hua" -- that roughly translates into "Now Debbie Spend." Which would get by the average viewer, but is still there never the less to drive home it's message.

Pete Hoekstra's campaign paid $75,000 to air the ad in markets throughout Michigan during the Super Bowl, according to an Associated Press report on Sunday. It is his first ad in the Senate race.

The Michigan chapter of Asian and Pacific Islander American Vote said in a statement that the ad "plays on harmful stereotypes of Asians speaking broken English and has stereotypical Chinese music playing in the background."

This ad even turned off and was condemned by some moderate Republicans as simply very dumb! Asian people vote too!

Now of course there are some people who will find this ad harmless and will say that we've become too pc and what not....They don't see how ads like this can inflame people and cause resentment of others based on a stereotype with very little bearence to truth...

The sad thing about this is..these ads work...They get the job done and as long as they do...They will continue to be used.