Well, that's only true of you call the vast majority of the entire House congressional Republican caucus and a large number of the Republican Sentate caucus, "fringe."  

In the 1992, they railed against Bill Clinton and said he was not legitimately elected because, at 43 percent of the popular vote, he didn't win a majority--in a three-way race, with George H. W. Bush winning only 37 percent. Eight years later, of course, they quickly revised their views about the sanctity of a popular-vote majority.

14% of Republicans think Obama IS the anti-Christ.  Another 15% are not sure.

30% Crocker-Snyder.

As for your formulation, I prefer this from the Wiki:

Playing the race card is an idiomatic phrase that refers to the act of bringing the issue of race or racism into a debate, perhaps to obfuscate the matter. It is a metaphorical reference to card games in which a trump card may be used to gain an advantage.

 Usage

In the less critical sense, the phrase is commonly used in two contexts. In the first, and more common context, it alleges that someone has deliberately and falsely accused another person of being a racist in order to gain some sort of advantage.[1] An example of this use of the term occurred during the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, when critics accused the defense of "playing the race card"[2] in presenting Mark Fuhrman's racist past (e.g. his recorded use of the word "nigger" in addition to his being accused of tampering with murder evidence in prior cases, as well as his use of the Fifth Amendment to avoid potential self-incrimination upon questioning) as a reason to draw his credibility as a witness into question. Another example would be a criticism of Georgia Representative Cynthia McKinney's assertion that she was the victim of "racial profiling"[3] after she allegedly struck a United States Capitol police officer who had grabbed her at a security checkpoint. A more recent example would be criticism of Yale University student Jian Li's formal complaint against Princeton University, which asserted that Princeton and other elite universities discriminate against Asian Americans while setting the admissions bar lower for other minorities, including African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

In the second context, it refers to someone exploiting prejudice against another race for political or some other advantage. The use of the southern strategy by a political candidate is said by some to be a version of "playing the race card", such as when former Senator Jesse Helms, during his 1990 North Carolina Senate campaign ran an ad showing a black man taking a white man's job, intended as a criticism of the idea of racial quotas. The ad was interpreted by many people as trying to play to racist fears among white voters.

On the other hand, George Dei, Karumanchery, et alia in their book Playing the Race Card[4] argue that the term itself is a rhetorical device used in an effort to devalue and minimize claims of racism.

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Of course any number of blatantly racist comments and behaviors toward Obama can be found with a simple Google search. The real problems come from high profile politicians and pundits who have begun to weave race dialog into their public statement and strategies. In June an important GOP activist, Rusty DePass disgraced himself by comparing First Lady Michelle Obama to a gorilla on his Facebook page. Over the summer another key Conservative activist and organizer in Florida, Dr. David McKalip circulated a picture of Obama dressed as an African witch doctor to an e-mail list serving the Tea Party organizers. Of course he apologized a day later. Now, we are beginning to see the President's opponents playing the race card, against him. Notably, well-known Conservative Fox News commentator Glenn Beck, in July, accused President Obama of having "a deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture." Beck elaborates, "He has a problem. This guy is, I believe, a racist." As fellow Fox TV host Brian Kilmeade pointed out, most of the people who work for the nation's first black president are white. This is a creative evolution from the crude attacks on the campaign trail, when anti-Obama operatives (in June of 2008) unsuccessfully accused Michelle Obama of anti-white racism, and using the word "Whitey."  Of course it never happened, she never said it, and no evidence ever came to light, but people still think she said it, so maybe the damage was done anyway. At the time, Rev. Jeremiah Wright was spewing anti-white (and anti-Clinton) hate speech seemingly at every opportunity, so just about anything would stick to the "Wright wall," if it got thrown enough times. Michelle didn't escape the smear machine anyway, facing racist slurs from Michelle Malkin, Tucker Carlson, conservative writer Byron York, and appearing on the cover of the National Review making an angry face.

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Paul Waldman published an article today in The American Prospect called, "Stuff Some White People Don't Like," and asserts that, "The right's animosity toward Obama isn't about fascism or socialism -- it's about racism." Waldman goes further than Walsh in asserting that racism toward Obama is inevitable, and that the post-racial afterglow of conservative commentators like William Bennett cannot and did not last. Bennett, a devout right-wing operative gushed that Obama, "never brings race into it. He never plays the race card. Talk about the black community -- he has taught the black community you don't have to act like Jesse Jackson; you don't have to act like Al Sharpton." Waldman believes that the principles of democracy are being tested by having a Black man occupy the Oval Office:

   

During the post-election wrangling of 2000, numerous commentators said that the fact that there weren't tanks in the streets was a tribute to American democracy. In the end, we'd settle the argument through our established institutions, and everyone would respect the results. (Imagine for a moment if Obama had won the way George W. Bush won -- with fewer votes than his opponent, and only through the employment of a combination of ruthless hardball tactics and the intercession of a friendly Supreme Court majority.) That was supposed to be what made us so admirable. It seems like so long ago.

    But there are some things we're all supposed to share, including a willingness to submit to the results of democracy even when we don't like those results. For a growing number of Americans, the presence of a certain kind of person in the White House calls that willingness into question.

    There is nothing we can do to escape tribalism; it is written on every page of human history. As our own society grows more complex and diverse, we become members of multiple overlapping tribes that we use to differentiate ourselves from others. We define "us" and "them" by our age, the place we live, our religious beliefs, our favorite sports, the kind of music we favor, and our taste in various consumer goods, to name but a few.

Both Walsh and Waldman mention the Birthers as well. The Birthers are a fringe political group devoted to establishing that Barack Obama is ineligible for the office of President due to being foreign-born. Courts nationwide have rejected lawsuits and legal attempts to invalidate Obama's birth documents, the Birther movement is considered inconsequential by the White House, and they have almost no popular support. Regardless, the Birthers are a cultural information vehicle, and have used racist tactics. They are also one of the main groups who circulated rumors that President Obama is a Muslim, another racial label that triggers fear and distrust with Americans.

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So, according to some, Glenn Beck, having injected race into the conversation, is therefore a member of the anti-American, terrorist-hugging Left.

Bush won the recounts.

Which makes mincemeat out of the resolution against Wilson.