As McInsane’s campaign continues to sink like Freddie Mac stock, the right wing noise machine is coming up with more off the wall suggestions for the old man to lose by even more of a margin.
Today’s contestants are Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup over at Power Puff Line, and they are convinced that Grandpa McAngrypants can win this election with Operation Get Behind the Darkies.
Now another domestic issue (though not mainly an economic one) favorable McCain may be emerging. Voters in Arizona, McCain’s home state, will be voting on a proposition that would ban the state from preferring people on the basis of race. The proposition states:
The state shall not discriminate against, or grant preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting.
McCain supports this proposition; Obama, I understand, opposes it on the grounds that it is “divisive.”
McCain is on the popular side here, and it’s not even close. The very “blue” states of California, Washington, and Michigan have all passed this resolution by sizeable majorities. Moreover, in 2000, a Pew Research Center poll found that only 13 percent of the public strongly or somewhat agreed with this statement: “Blacks should get hiring preference.” Pew broke down the responses for those living in blue and red states and found no difference.
Got that?
In an election where McCain’s opponent is the first African-American male ever in 235+ years to earn a major party nomination, the advice given to McCain is to run on a platform to appeal to white men’s fears that they are systematically being discriminated against, and then accuse Obama of practicing the politics of racial division.
I’ll let you wrap your head around the magnitude of the Republican double-speak jujitsu reversal factor on that one.
I said months ago that the entire point of the McCain campaign versus Obama was to find people the most guilt-free way possible to justify being a racist bastard in November.
I’m not glad at all to see I was right. But I was still expecting it.