"Real Families": The Dog Whistle nobody's talking about

In her speech at the Republican National Convention, Ann Romney said, "What Mitt and I have is a real marriage."

Last night on NBC, Brian Williams interview Jeb Bush, and Bush said that demographics were not on the Republican's side, that it was "stupid" of the GOP to turn off minority voters, and that "the GOP needs to focus on Latinos and Asian Americans because they care about family and ought to be receptive to Republican policies."

Notice what's missing from Jeb's list?

Along with the insinuation that he's not a "real American," the Republicans are pressing hard with the dog whistle that, because he's black, Barack Obama can't be a "real father," either. Starting with the absurd notion that Obama isn't as masculine as Romney because Romney has sired sons while Obama has only daughters, and moving on to the equally stupid Obama is gay meme from the usual right-wing freak shows, the whole idea is that there's something desperately wrong about Obama because he's on his first marriage with two lovely daughters in a monogamous relationship, he enjoys playing sports (rather than owning them), and he likes microbrews-- and he manages to be such an ordinary American while being that most un-American thing of all, you know, black.

And black people don't form real families. Everyone who's still with the GOP "knows" that.