DKOS: Patriotic Pubs Powell, Bloomberg and Hagel need to shut down the McPalin GO RACIAL strategy

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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/9/173414/519/961/625505

Sleaze Blocker Needed: Time for Powell, Bloomberg and Hagel to shut it down the GO RACIAL strategy

by MyThoughts

These three supposed heroes of the "independent" voter have been on the sidelines too long. Pulling them into the fray to denounce McCain’s latest foray into the gutter is really the only sure way to end McCain’s "GO RACIAL" strategy which threatens grave harm to the nation.


Make no mistake, "GO RACIAL" is what McCain is doing. Their code words map directly to the warnings of the Stanford poll findings on how race could turn this election. The key negative stereotypes that the "on the fence" whites express regarding black in America are all prominent in the new McCain attacks on Obama: "violent associates -- dangerous," "boastful – really unqualified," "complaining – touchy whiner," "lazy – all talk no hard work" , "won’t take responsibility."

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McShame's crap will probably blow-up in his face. But in the mean time it may produce a lot of "bitter" angry citizen -- like me!

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If they keep this up for a month, by election day (regardless of who wins) this sleazy, anger-inciting, xenophobic, "Go Racial" campaign could put back social progress in the U.S. by a decade. Truly "bitter" feelings are being spawned by the McCain/Palin charge of the bigot brigade.

It is time for responsible political leadership to PUT A STOP TO IT. And appeals from Democrats are not going to work. It will take prominent REPUBLICAN AND INDEPENDENT leaders to come forward and denounce McCain’s shameful and despicable tactics.

Palin/McCain have a crap-loaded gun at the head of America: TIME FOR THE POWELS, BLOOMBERGS AND HAGELS who claim integrity, to step forward as patriots and put country first.

:sarcasm:

Seriously, this would be a heavy jackboot on the collective throat of the shitty smear merchant machine.

from your list. Bloomie is no longer a Republican, and Hagel doesn't carry enough weight with the party because of his friendship with Obama...

Dick Lugar maybe because of the Lugar-Obama bill?

Maybe a Republican senator in a tight race?

because I know that it will REALLY piss McCain off. Hagel and McCain's friendship drifted bc of the war, but I think part of the reason he is holding back endorsing Obama (I have no doubt he's voting for Obama. He has said that the war trumps all other issues for him) is because of his past with McCain. Screw that.

can't think of many other Republicans that have his platform.

and that he's "voting his race over his country." Same thing with Condoleeza. And if either of them made the case that it was McCain's over the top racial emphasis that caused them to endorse Obama, it will always be harder for a black person to cry racism than a white person.

I do think this has to come from a white conservative or indie. Hagel would be good and has damn near endorsed Obama already. But I do think his stature has decreased among conservatives who are enraged that he was not a cheerleader for their bloody war.

Maybe Orrin Hatch or Dick Lugar as you mentioned??

they are pissing in it.

for not speaking up in the face of this increasingly dangerous and offensive rhetoric.

We haven't heard from these folks, or from Lugar, Rudman, Ahhnold, and the other Republicans who usually conduct themselves like grown-ups.

Most of these people, remember, were public or private McCain supporters because he was considered the responsible, mature candidate in the GOP field, the one who wasn't part of either the Rove stable or the crackpot Talibaptist wing of the party. Now they are stuck with a guy who is selling his soul to the lunatic fringe, engaging in the most sordid brand of politics, yet they find themselves frozen in place.

would do it.

I do believe, despite his overallegience to Bush during 2003-2004, that he could play a patriotic role here in preserving national unity in the face of a radical right-wing danger.

are doing a terrible disservice to the audiences -- they are minimizing the malevolent passions that Palin is trying to arouse and its consequences to society