John McCain, Sarah Palin, Barack Obama, Karl Rove,
Republican Southern Strategy, Campaign 2008 racial
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McCain/Palin Flash Rove’s Racial Gang Signs
09/08/08 08:32 AM
Fifty percent of this year’s Republican playbook is typically divisive Rove Culture Wars. The other fifty percent is all about racial signs and symbols. Georgia GOP Congressan Lynn Westmoreland finally came right out and called Obama “uppity,” kindly leaving the inevitable to our imaginations.
The Republicans have not changed. They are still rifling the moldering locker of Nixonian campaign tactics, which itself picked George Wallace’s campaign pockets. A Wallace campaign aide described it as “Promise them the moon and holler “Nigger.”
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