So a canvasser goes to a woman's door in Washington, Pennsylvania. Knocks. Woman answers. Knocker asks who she's planning to vote for. She isn't sure, has to ask her husband who she's voting for. Husband is off in another room watching some game. Canvasser hears him yell back, "We're votin' for the n---er!"

Woman turns back to canvasser, and says brightly and matter of factly: "We're voting for the n---er."

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/10/on-road-western-pennsylvania.html

So maybe there's a little hope for that part of the world after all.

And if anybody would like to come down to Houston and help us turn it blue -- making it like Philly is to the rest of Pennsylvania -- we'd sure love ta have ya.

We got plenty more crackers than y'all to convince.

I looked at my husband and said, "Maybe we should have requested the "No Stupid Republican" section.

All the things they were saying were the same crap spewing from the crowds at McCain rallies. "Muslim this, Ayers that, taxes, taxes, taxes". These idiots need to actually do a little reading or watch a whole debate to see what is really going on. But that would require some brains.

One thing that I found was that many of the people in our classes, who may have been very bigoted, could at least admit that their racism was irrational, and that they could understand that a black man or a Puerto Rican or a Native American wanted the same as he wanted. That is, the same person could have both racist feelings and could logically understand that it was wrong at another level.

As profound as the racism was back then, the fact that the army, such a conservative institution, recognized the problem and tried to ameliorate the situation, realized the necessity of changing people's hearts, gave me hope.

What the Republican Party is doing now is making racism okay. Public displays of racism are just fine. It helps to fire up the base. To answer the question, no, they have no decency.

But what we have here is a desperate Presidential campaign encouraging the worst in public discourse: racism, calls of treason, anything that distracts from the utter failure of eight years of Republicanism. Think about how we talk about our election. It's not close enough for the Republicans to steal it!

Anyone who thinks that McCain is honorable is a fool. The entire corrupt party is closer to the fascists and Nazis than to even the party of Nixon. One can only hope that enough people repudiate them so that the current class of racist politicians go back to hiding under their hoods.