by Blue Stockings | It's really just more of what---incredibly---we've become used to. According to The New York Times Caucus, McCain and Palin can count on the voters who hate Muslim-Americans (which, of course, Barack Obama is not). How edifying:
NEW PORT RICHEY, Fla. – “John McCain! Not Hussein!”
So goes the latest popular chant on the campaign trail with Gov. Sarah Palin, demonstrated at a morning rally in central Florida...
A similar chant, “Vote McCain, not Hussein,” was heard at a campaign event for Ms. Palin in Williamsport, Pa., earlier this week.
Senator Barack Obama’s middle name is Hussein, a fact that some of his opponents say proves that he is a Muslim. Mr. Obama is, in fact, a Christian.
Why?
Because it rhymes, say those who initiated it. Yeah, I am so sure. At this point, no straw is too feeble or frayed for McCain's supporters to build their bricks from.
Here's Michael J. Stickings' reaction at The Reaction:
Not all McCain-Palin supporters are like that, to be sure, but many of them are, and the ugliness, vicious attacks on Obama, some of it undeniably racist, has become a defining feature both of the McCain-Palin campaign and of its grassroots support.
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Repubicans are about to take a well deserved beating at the polls. Will it prompt even a little introspection on their part?
Don't hold your breath. The white Southern rump of the party that will be left (David Frum's words, not mine) will be even more radical and right-wing.
Posted by: Pug | November 01, 2008 at 08:15 PM