Sunday, October 19, 2008

GOP campaign theme: Scary "others" are about to take over the USA

They're not like "us real Americans". They're un-American. They're anti-American. They're liberal-leftist-socialists. They kill babies. Some of them aren't even white people. They might not be christians. They're probably terrorists.

Tell me this isn't thinly veiled racism layered on top of old-fashioned GOP fear-mongering. Or maybe its fear-mongering layered on top of old-fashioned racism. Hardly surprising that some of the GOP base are concluding that some lynchings might be in order. John Lewis was right: they are playing with fire.

Promoting hatred and fear. That's what the Republicans mean when they talk about putting the country first.

It's fraudulant and utterly vile.

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