Tar Baby?

So it appears that another U.S. Representative using another borderline term to define the president. Or at least define what working with him is like. Congressman Doug Lamborn of Colorado apparently said the following (emphasis mine):

Even if some people say, ‘Well the Republicans should have done this or they should have done that,’ they will hold the President responsible. Now, I don’t even want to have to be associated with him. It’s like touching a tar baby and you get it, you’re stuck, and you’re a part of the problem now and you can’t get away. I don’t want that to happen to us, but if it does or not, he’ll still get, properly so, the blame because his policies for four years will have failed the American people.

I think he was trying to describe the situation as he felt it. But you never know. My history teaches me he knew exactly what he was saying. The term tar baby has been a derogatory term about blacks for decades now. You would think he would know better. Maybe he did and said it anyway. I am sure somehow that this will get him the publicity that politicians grave. And he is in a long line of this type of thing.

Still I am reminded of this particular skit from Saturday Night Live. When it was funny.