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After McCain/Palin rallies started looking more and more like racist rallies, I was beginning to get a little concerned that racism would decide this election. McCain and Palin actually were silent as people in the audience shouted “kill him” or called Senator Obama a terrorist. But on Friday we see that John McCain actually stopped being the douchebag candidate he’s turned into for a few minutes to speak the truth.

You can almost see it in his eyes when he realizes what he’s done. By appealing to the hard right “base” of the party his town halls have become made up solely of the morons that really think that Obama is an Arab terrorist. They really are afraid that a Black many might be president. There are examples of this out and out racism all over the country. By really turning up the Palin mouth breather crowd, he’s also getting an ugly subsegment. And this, my friends, his really damaging any change of attracting any of the fabled “undecided voter.” Because, really the racist voters wouldn’t vote for Obama anyway. And the hardcore pro-lifers wouldn’t either. One thing I read was someone thinking that this sharp move to rile up the base was to make sure he can count on them actually voting. If the base doesn’t think that he can win, they aren’t motivated to go to the polls. Other republicans on the ticket could suffer if that happens. (Which is why I suspect that the people actually running the Republican party — you know the ones that got him to put Palin on the ticket — think that even they lose the presidency, they can make sure the base turns out to keep republican seats in congress and at the local level). Sadly, the race is close in the same states as last time and the one thing the swing states have in common is not their progressive attitudes on race and tolerance. So if the rednecks do come out in PA and OH (and others) McCain still has a chance.

His “you don’t have to be afraid of an Obama” presidency line is almost a concession that he’s not going to win.

Sadly, I read this morning, that after McCain’s words to have the fanatics simmer down, that his campaign is now saying those racist morons are actually plants from Obama. This is also part of his handler’s narrative that it is Obama’s fault there are racists attending McCain rallies. Just as when he suspended his campaign when all he really did was suspend his appearance on Letterman, we shall see if McCain and his pit bull in lipstick raise their rallies from the gutter.

Speaking of Churchy Spice, the Alaska legislature (dominated by republicans) report on Troopergate came out. Although if found her guilty of violating ethics statutes it probably doesn’t change anything. She’s a maverick. Mavericks don’t follow the rules! The McCain/Palin campaign earlier in the day released its report (made up entirely of Palin appointees) that absolved her of any wrongdoing. Palin was also whining that the legislative committee didn’t interview her. BECAUSE SHE REFUSED TO TALK TO THEM. The investigator would have flown to wherever she was on the campaign trail to do that, but she didn’t. Agent of change? Bullshit, she’s a typical politician.