But seriously, now that I’ve stolen your attention…
It’s getting pretty nasty here in PA.
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For those of you who have been scratching your heads wondering why McCain and Palin have been racing all over Blue Pennsylvania, rest assured, there's method to their madness. They are going out of their way to stir the primordial stew of racism and ignorance with a message of hate, fear and division. Their banking on James Carville's theory that the land between Pittsburgh and Philadelphia is 1960's Alabama.
We know there's some truth to the theory. But how much?
Just listen to the McCain/ Palin Troglodytes gushing forth with racial hatred - not in 1960 Georgia, but in 2008 Pottsville, PA:
What pride McCain and Palin must feel when they see a replay of their minions so hard at work, spewing racial epithets and threatening the life of a Presidential candidate.
And while their racist core answers the call, the McCain brain-trust is busy robo-calling everyone else.
Last week, they emailed 75,000 Jewish Pennsylvanians with a message that equates Barack Obama with the rise of Nazism and the causal events leading to the Holocaust. Here are a few snippets from the Hate Talk Express Mail:
"Jewish Americans cannot afford to make the wrong decision on Tuesday, November 4th, 2008."
And the sewage flows on...
"Many of our ancestors ignored the warning signs in the 1930s and 1940s and made a tragic mistake. Let's not make a similar one this year!"
The email ends with the disclaimer "Paid for by the Republican Federal Committee of PA - Victory 2008."
No need for 527s this year when McCain and Palin can manufacture and sell their own virulent brand of hate-mongering.
Of course, with the deed done, McCain’s PA Slime Machine is attempting to disavow the email. In an interview with the Associated Press, a Pennsylvania Republican Party spokesperson claimed they ‘did not authorize that e-mail." and the staff member who sent the email from their offices “was fired.”
According to the spokesperson, a "correction" would be sent out to everyone who received it.
So no harm done there… right?
And then there’s the now infamous Ashley Todd, the McCain Field Worker from Texas who claimed she was attacked by a large Obama-voting black man at a Pittsburgh ATM. Ms Todd claimed he punched her, carved a backwards “B” in her cheek and then sexually assaulted her.
She probably should have gone with an "O" instead of a "B." Those mirrors can be tricky.
The Pittsburgh police quickly saw through her story and she admitted to the hoax - but questions remain unanswered.
Ms Todd was either off her meds, or took the big one for Team McCain.
Drudge had the photograph of the “battered” Ms Todd on his Web site BEFORE the Pittsburgh police released the same photo.
Drudge must be psychic when it comes to psychos.
If Miss Ashley is really nuts, she’ll be put in a safer place, relying on the kindness of strangers. If she was put up to this racist hoax by the McCain Campaign, well, then the rest of us need to be in a safer place - say by November 5th.
Naturally, Miss Sarah, Ashley's boss, is busy camping out in Rural Pennsylvania, doing her best to skim the remaining societal flotsam into active McCain voters.
There’s a great quote attributed to author David Sedaris making its way across the Internet. It addresses the undecided voter:
“I look at these people and can’t quite believe that they exist. Are they professional actors? I wonder. Or are they simply laymen who want a lot of attention? To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. "Can I interest you in the chicken?" she asks. "Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it? To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked”
(Thank you Mur, for passing the Sedaris quote on to me)
Personally, I’m now clearly seeing this Presidential election as a basic desert menu…
We can imbibe on the succulent fruit of intelligence, hope and forward ideas.
Or swallow a garbage-wrapped crepe.
WE MUST NOW WORK HARDER THAN EVER!
UPDATE #1: CaptainTight's Diary this evening has the PA view from the side of the Good Guys:
http://www.dailykos.com/...
UPDATE #2: This is actually not a chronologically correct update (I'll call it a downdate). I just forgot to mention that the McCain band was out dropping leaflets in minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia a few weeks ago. The leaflets claimed that arrests would be made at the polls if you had any delinquent parking tickets. As we know all too well, McCain hired the Dirty Tricks folks from Bush's 2000/2004 Campaigns. They're especially talented when it comes to voter suppression tactics. Hardly need Alberto Gonzales to tip an election. Just cheat, lie and steal. I hope the foot soldiers are at least making minimum wage in return for their criminal offenses.