John McCain’s Race Baiting Road To The White House

It seems clear that McCain and Palin’s campaign right now is ignoring the economy and trying to stir their base with outright race baiting by trying to make Barack Obama seem like he is, for all intents and purposes, a terrorist.  And the people hearing this call from the Republican Presidential ticket are responding.  Supports have been recorded at these rallies yelling out “Terrorist” and “Treason” and even “KILL HIM.”  Should McCain and Palin be guilty, because of what their supporters say? No.  But should they be reigning this in and calling it out. Yes and they are not.  McCain’s campaign has now become 100% dishonorable and is totally deplorable.  This extreme rhetoric is beginning to incite a “raged mob” of people against Obama, not because he is of a differing political philosophy, but because he is not American, has ties to terrorists and his middle name is Muslim.  To some, Barack is the enemy of the same type who have killed Americans.  This is how some people are reacting to the McCain message and the fact that the ticket is doing NOTHING is the lowest of the low.  And I’d go on to say that this, if not stopped and stopped immediately, can create two scenarios. The First: If McCain wins and wins by going this ugly he will be unable to get anything done with an enraged Democratic party that will undoubtedly have a big majority in Congress.  What would further hurt his presidency is that if he does win it will probably be by a slim margin with a large part of the electorate having a very negative view of John McCain and Sarah Palin.  The Second: If Obama wins there will be a good part of Americans who have been told by a presidential ticket, that they wholeheartedly supported, that the current President is an Anti-American terrorist, who will destroy this nation.  This situation could create a heightened sense among one or a few of the nuts in this group to threaten the life of a President Obama.   John McCain, this needs to stop.

But, I guess George Will has written one of the best critiques of McCain’s new “campaign”:

“Time was, the Baltimore Orioles manager was Earl Weaver, a short, irascible, Napoleonic figure who, when cranky, as he frequently was, would shout at an umpire, ‘Are you going to get any better or is this it?; With, mercifully, only one debate to go, that is the question about John McCain’s campaign.

In the closing days of his 10-year quest for the presidency, McCain finds it galling that Barack Obama is winning the first serious campaign he has ever run against a Republican. Before Tuesday night’s uneventful event, gall was fueling what might be the McCain-Palin campaign’s closing argument. It is less that Obama has bad ideas than that Obama is a bad person.

This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist…the McCain-Palin campaign’s attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama’s Chicago associations [and not the economy] seem(s) surreal — or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, “‘ike being savaged by a dead sheep.’”

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