Why would Democrats have concerned themselves with Cain? AFAIK, he's only run for one office, and it was a shirt-lived run at that. I'll trade your Scalia for one Clarence Thomas.
Whoops, yeah, my mistake, I meant Thomas, not Scalia. Do you have any reports of race baiting attacks against Thomas from Democrats?
Ah, I see. A century is enough to wipe away that stain, but 50 years isn't, right?
A century and explicit disavowal, combined with being essentially the party of minorities in America, helps wipe away the stain. If it was 50 years since racism was the Republican policy and they'd been working explicitly against racism since then, it too would look better, but here's the RNC chair in 2005:
"Republican candidates often have prospered by ignoring black voters and even by exploiting racial tensions," and, "by the '70s and into the '80s and '90s, the Democratic Party solidified its gains in the African-American community, and we Republicans did not effectively reach out. Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."
The 90s aren't 50 years ago. Then there's a heavy racist element of the Tea Party protests, which you can see very easily but just looking at the signs that were being carried - try google image searching "Tea Party racism." Obama as a witch doctor, Obama the "Kenyan" and birtherism in general. It's no coincidence that 90% of GOP voters in 2008 were white, which matches every other election for the past 30 years.
Much like I don't think anyone would seriously dispute that most Black Panther types would vote Democrat before Republican, even though just as obviously most Democrats aren't Black Panther members. Of course, in comparison, I don't think we saw reports of KKK members carrying billy clubs outside polling places in '08, did we?
The New Black Panther case was two people at one polling place, one of whom was prosecuted for voter intimidation. Dear Lord, how can white America survive! I'm sure there weren't two random white guys somewhere in the country slinging racial slurs that day.
Those guys were being racist against whites, yes. They weren't being racist against blacks or other ethnic groups, they weren't part of a party's written out, explicit policy of relying on racist hatred of whites to gather votes for decades only 'ending' recently. If you could show coded racism against whites by Democratic candidates/leaders in the modern era, even, I guess you'd have some kind of weak equivalency (but still not much of one since racism against blacks has a history of lynchings and church bombings that makes it inherently worse), but this started with you bitching that I wasn't showing enough examples of racism against black right-wingers, and I asked you to show me some real life cases. I still don't see those.