Of Course they are!

As McCain has now abandoned Michigan and turned his campaign to all dirty, all the time…Intimidating fliers in Philadelphia’s black and largely Democratic neighborhoods have surfaced warning that any registered voters who have outstanding traffic or other kinds of warrants, will be arrested at the polls by undercover police officers.

Let me say first to all who may feel intimidated by the attempt to keep you from voting that this is absolutely false.  It goes against your Constitutional right to vote, and is not a flier that was circulated by the Philadelphia Police Department or any other law enforcement agency in Pennsylvania. There will be no officers at the polls to arrest anyone with outstanding traffic warrants. According to Deputy Mayor for Public Safety Everett Gillison, who learned of the flier last week, said that the message is completely false. “The only thing that police officers are going to do that we’ll be encouraging that day is that they’ll be exercising their own individual right to vote,” .

Telling people to beware of voting if they have outstanding warrants is an old trick. In Maryland’s 2002 gubernatorial election, anonymous fliers in African-American communities warned people to pay parking tickets and resolve outstanding warrants before heading to the polls.

It seems that when the chips are down, and democrats once again rally the nation together, Republican supporters resort to fear and intimidation to keep blacks away from the polls.  They haven’t changed since the 50’s, when police, dogs, and the KKK were allowed to intimidate blacks heading to the polls.  So sad.

This is just one more chapter in the “Sore Loser” campaign of John McCain and his supporters.  Although he (McCain) personally is not in any way associated with the fliers, it stands to reason that the only party who benefits from intimidating black Democrats away from the polls is Republicans.  Time and time again, Republican supporters continue to prove their win at all costs mentality.  McCain has yet to denounce the actions of voter and racial intimidation, nor make any statements on the racial charged comments, or calls fro Barack Obama’s death from supporters at Sarah Palin rallies.

The McCain campaign and it’s supporters are an out of control train on a broken track without a conductor.  How can he unite a country and get things done in a bi-partisan effort, if he can’t , or won’t even address his own supporters on these issues and show at least some respect for the political process and for his opponent in the Presidential race ?

I am reminded of a quote that I posted a few days ago:

I play to win. I do whatever it takes to win. If I have to fuck my opponent to win I’ll do it. If I have to destroy my opponent I won’t give it a second thought. — John McCain, spoken before a gathering of GOP operatives at the National Republican Senatorial Committee where McCain outlined his campaign strategy in his Senate race.

McCain and Palin do little to refute the underlying insinuations that their diminishing support seems to be based in a small group of conservative republicans who see still see the election as “Black vs. White”.

It seems that John McCain has not any lessons of the past.  Back in the 2000 , in his first bid for the Presidency, (one he swore would be his last because he would be too old to run in 2008),

The 2000 South Carolina GOP primary has earned a reputation as one of the sleaziest in recent memory. Through anonymous phone calls and fliers, opponents spread the rumor among the state’s conservative Republican primary voters that Cindy McCain was a drug addict and the couple’s daughter Bridget, adopted from Mother Teresa’s orphanage in Bangladesh, was fathered by McCain out of wedlock.

George W. Bush went on to win the South Carolina primary, which effectively ended McCain’s campaign for the Republican nomination. At the time, McCain said, “It’s very upsetting when something like that happens because it shakes your faith a little bit in people.”-ABC NEWS

With every negative commercial, attack, and actions of out of control supporters on the campaign trail that goes unanswered, the McCain/Palin ticket keeps pouring fuel on their own political arson fire that is destroying any chance of even keeping the respect of Americans, let alone a trip to the White House, and most likely taking fellow republican Senators running in the 2008 campaign with them.

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