Commentary: If McCain’s Disgusted at His Rallies’ Racially-Tinged Rants, He’s Got His Own Party to Thank

By: Tonyaa Weathersbee

So now, the chickens hatched from eggs laid long ago by the GOP’s “Southern strategy,” are coming home to roost.

They’re finding their perches at the rallies of John McCain and his running mate, Sarah Palin. Frustrated by their candidate’s sagging poll numbers and livid at the possibility that a black man like Barack Obama might wind up in the White House, some of his supporters have felt free to unleash their inner racist.

During a Palin rally in Clearwater, Fla., some supporters hurled an epithet at a black sound technician, and told him to “Sit down, boy!”

As Palin egged them on by exaggerating Obama’s ties to former domestic terrorist William Ayers, someone yelled “Terrorist!” and “Kill him!”

At another Palin rally in Johnstown, Penn., a man showed off a stuffed monkey doll with an Obama sticker wrapped around its head.

Then, when McCain told a crowd in Cape Fear, N.C., “I know what fear feels like. It’s a thief in the night that robs your strength,” someone yelled out, “Like Obama!”

At that same event, a poster with a photo of Obama, Osama bin Laden and Thomas Wright, a former North Carolina state lawmaker who was convicted of fraud, was on display.

I guess because Obama and Osama have rhyming first names, and because Wright, like Obama, happens to be a black politician, that was supposed to scare everyone.

Instead, it just looked stupid and racist.

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