This morning, we pointed out that conservatives are using disputed rumors that President Bill Clinton asked Kendrick Meek to drop out of the Florida Senate race to make racially charged claims about Clinton, suggesting that Clinton was trying to push Meek out of the race because Meek is black.

Unsurprisingly, Rush Limbaugh devoted much of the first hour of today's program to this theory, saying that “it's quite interesting that in order for the Democrat Party to get what it wants in the state of Florida, the black guy has to leave, not [independent candidate Charlie] Crist. The black Democrat has to leave.” He added that “they're asking the black Democrat to get out in favor of the perpetually tanned, grey-haired Charlie Crist.”

Limbaugh later made the case that the purported efforts to push Meek out of the race are part of a broader effort to “get rid of” black politicians:

LIMBAUGH: Here's the party that claims to be the party of minorities, stand up for you. Look what this party does to black politicians. It gets rid of them. In this case, it knifes them in the back. And the list is long.

Limbaugh's ridiculous theory might make a little more sense if he hadn't made the exact opposite case back in 2006, arguing that there was a “racial component” when the Democratic Party had supposedly forced a white candidate out of a race in favor of a black candidate.

Discussing Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett's departure from the Ohio Democratic Senate primary race. race against then-Rep. and now Sen. Sherrod Brown, Limbaugh said, “And don't forget, Sherrod Brown is black. There's a racial component here, too,” adding that “the newspaper that I'm reading all this from is The New York Times, and they, of course, don't mention that."

Aside from the general ludicrousness of this line of argument, Limbaugh ran into a basic problem of facts: Sherrod Brown is white. He corrected his error on-air, saying that he had been “confusing him with somebody.” Whoops.

The moral of the story is, while he accuses Democrats of being overly concerned with race, it is Rush who jumps for the race card at every opportunity, no matter how little sense his argument makes.

Incidentally, takes a special kind of mendaciousness to say, “Look what this party does to black politicians. It gets rid of them” when the current president of the United States is a black politician nominated by the Democratic Party.