I fail to see why this could be a non-issue only if it somehow applied to the GOP. That makes no sense at all.
Because the template of who Republicans associate with, especially if they have any connection to entities such as the Christian Coalition or Pat Robertson or Bob Jones University, is consistently brought up by the left & MSM, as some invisible connection to being racially insensitive, if not racist.
I should have warned you, it only makes sense to the objectively minded