The GOP race baiting continues

We've stated before that if someone has a racist past and they come clean, renounce their former beliefs and never look back we'd be willing to forgive and forget. But when someone like Senator Trent Lott tells Strom Thurmond that...

" When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these years, either."

From Wikipedia..."Since Thurmond had explicitly supported racial segregation in the presidential campaign to which Lott referred, this statement was widely interpreted to mean that Lott also supported racial segregation. Lott had attracted controversy before in issues relating to civil rights. As a Congressman, he voted against renewal of the Voting Rights Act and opposed the Martin Luther King Holiday. Lott also maintained an affilation with the Council of Conservative Citizens, which is described as a hate group by the ADL, NAACP and SPLC." Or what we at ODP Watch refer to as "Klan Lite".

Now and then the GOP racists who speak in code to their Klan following, much like Billy Graham and Jerry Falwell did in the 1950's, let their guard down and show their true colors. They haven't changed no matter how much they protest and their Confederate Flag waving followers know it. They understand the code.

And now another in the Klan inspired GOP has let the veil slip once again. Senator George Allen called a rival campaign worker (who happened to be non-white) a macaca which is defined as a slur to describe North Africans and is also used to denote a species of monkey. Here's part of the text of Allen's rant...

"Lets give a welcome to Macaca, here. Welcome to America and the real world of Virginia," said Allen, who then began talking about the "war on terror."

Welcome to America? The campaign worker in question happens to be American but albeit with brown skin. We assume that one isn't a true "'Murcan" unless one is lily white like George Allen. He actually called him a macaca twice but who's counting, right? Here's the video that was shot by the very same campaign worker...

Allen video

Is there still any doubt from any out there in the ether about the cozy relationship between the Christian Right, the Klan and the GOP? How many more veils need to be lifted? Any questions?

The New York Times finally covers Blackwell's folly

By all means let's catch those 100 or so "dead people" that vote for Democrats while ignoring the massive fraud perpetrated by Diebold for their Republican masters.

NEW REGISTRATION RULES STIR VOTER DEBATE IN OHIO

By IAN URBINA
Published: August 6, 2006

CLEVELAND — For Tony Minor, the pastor of the Community of Faith Assembly in a run-down section of East Cleveland, Ohio’s new voter registration rules have meant spending two extra hours a day collecting half as many registration cards from new voters as he did in past years.

Republicans say the new rules are needed to prevent fraud, but Democrats say they are making it much harder to register the poor.

In the last year, six states have passed such restrictions, and in three states, including Ohio, civic groups have filed lawsuits, arguing that the rules disproportionately affect poor neighborhoods.

But nowhere have the rules been as fiercely debated as here, partly because they are being administered by J. Kenneth Blackwell, the secretary of state and the Republican candidate in one of the most closely watched governor’s races in the country, a contest that will be affected by the voter registration rules. Mr. Blackwell did not write the law, but he has been accused of imposing regulations that are more restrictive than was intended.

Full story HERE.