Racist Says What?

Meg Whitman, a Republican candidate for governor of California, is trying to distance herself from a racist nutjob who endorsed her.

Santa Clarita councilman Bob Kellar made remarks at an anti-immigration anti-Mexican rally that apparently troubled Whitman:

"'Bob, you sound like a racist,' " Kellar recalled. “I said, 'That's good. If that's what you think I am because I happen to believe in America, I'm a proud racist. You're darn right I am.'"

Oops.

One thing: does it ever occur to racists they have a phobia? Whenever I hear some scared, confused xenophobe claim pride in being racist, it makes me wonder... would someone with an irrational fear of spiders ever claim to be 'arachnophobe and proud'?