Need more proof?
Remember this? John McCain supporter says the Democrats can have their "Tiger Woods". McCain promptly hugs supporter.
McCain raised $100,000+ in 2005 for noted Council of Concerned Citizens (racist/segregationist/hate group) supporter, George Wallace, Jr.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is fundraising for George Wallace Jr., who is running for Lt. Governor of Alabama.
In Mobile, Republican activist Jerry Lathan said about 50 people attended a pre-breakfast reception with McCain and Wallace. About 18 people attended a private breakfast afterward and had their pictures taken with the senator. Lathan's wife, Terry, coordinated the Mobile event.Lathan said he introduced Wallace, who delivered brief remarks. Former U.S. Rep. Sonny Callahan, R-Mobile, introduced McCain. The two men were elected to the House of Representatives in the same year. McCain went on to the Senate. Lathan would not disclose donation amounts that granted access to the reception or the meal. He said the Mobile event raised "in the six figures" for Wallace's campaign. The Progressive
Here's who George Wallace, Jr. is:
MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Alabama Public Service Commissioner George C. Wallace Jr., whose father famously vowed to defend racial segregation "forever" in a 1963 speech from the steps of the state Capitol, gave the welcoming speech to the national delegates of a white supremacist hate group meeting here on June 3.
The younger Wallace, whose official resumé boasts of an NAACP Freedom Award, opened up the first day of the annual national convention of the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a group whose Web site has referred to blacks as "a retrograde species of humanity." More than 100 delegates heard his speech, which went without any immediate coverage in the Alabama print or broadcast media. [...]
In the audience listening to Wallace were a number of leading white supremacists. They included Don Black, proprietor of Stormfront.org, the most influential hate site on the Internet, and former Alabama grand dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan; Jamie Kelso, right-hand man and Louisiana roommate of former Klan leader David Duke; Jared Taylor, editor of the neo-eugenicist American Renaissance magazine; Ed Fields, an aging white supremacist leader from Georgia; Alabama CCC leader Leonard "Flagpole" Wilson, who got his nickname shouting "Keep Bama white!" from atop a flagpole during University of Alabama race riots in 1956; and the CCC's national leader, St. Louis personal injury lawyer Gordon Lee Baum. Southern Poverty Law Center
Here's what the McCain campaign thinks of Wallace:
"George Wallace Jr., is an enlightened progressive leader who always speaks of tolerance and carries forth his father's views at the end of his life. He has strong support across the racial and political spectrum." National Journal
Need more proof? Here's McCain flip-flopping on the Confederate flag.
John McCain voted against expanding hate crimes legislation to include sexual orientation; he voted against protecting victims of workplace discrimination based on sexuality.
McCain voted against the federal holiday in 1983, opposed a state holiday in 1987 (four years later), opposed a new federal holiday in 1989 (six years later) and voted against funding for the commission established to encourage all states to recognize the King holiday in 1994—11 years after his vote. CrooksandLiars.com
McCain was 47, 51, and 58 respectively during those votes.
At age 71, he said he was wrong. Too late.
There's a treasure trove of this out there.
John McCain is a hypocrite at best, and, I'm being polite, an undisguised sexist, racist bigot.
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