On Tuesday, the Furman University Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow (CSBT) brought Chip Saltsman, a former National Campaign Manager to Mike Huckabee and contender for RNC Chair to give the lecture "Huckaboom! The Inside Story." CSBT described the event thusly:

Chip Saltsman, Mike Huckabee's National Campaign Manager, will discuss the strategy and tactics of the Huckabee campaign as well as the cultural contexts that influenced their effectiveness. Mr. Saltsman will offer his insider's perspective on how an unknown preacher-turned-politician emerged to eclipse established frontrunners, earn 270 delegates and the 2nd place trophy in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, as well as establish himself as a cultural icon of the religious right.

It seems like a nuts-and-bolts political speech. But not to the South Carolina Democratic Party. In December, while running for RNC Chair, Saltsman distributed copies of a CD containing the parody song "Barack the Magic Negro" to RNC members. Never mind that that is wholly irrelevant to his recent speech; the South Carolina Democrats continue to follow the old liberal shibboleth that one politically incorrect mistake is enough to discredit everything one might do in the future. They used this tactic to cast aspersions on the CSBT:

South Carolina Democratic Party Third Vice Chair Jamarr Brown released the following statement in response to Republican Chip Saltsman’s Tuesday night address to Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow at Furman University. Saltsman, a former chief aide to GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, withdrew from the race for RNC Chair earlier this year after he distributed copies of a CD with the racially-inflammatory song "Barack the Magic Negro."

"It's sad that Chip Saltsman would be chosen as a guest speaker for any college student group. His actions last year show that he is a poor example of real leadership for the Conservative Students for a Better Tomorrow, unless these students want to be taught a lesson in modern southern racism," said Brown.

It remains unclear to me how this talk had anything to do with "modern southern racism." But good for these Furman students: when the state Democratic Party comes out to criticize them, you know they're making a difference.