McCain Campaign Fires Virginia GOP Figure Over Racially Offensive Column

[Hissyspit]

Source: Associated Press

McCain Campaign Fires Virginia GOP Figure Over Racially Offensive Column

posted 2:51 pm Sat October 11, 2008

DANVILLE, Va. - Republican presidential candidate John McCain's campaign has ousted a prominent Virginia GOP figure after he wrote a racially offensive newspaper column mocking a potential Obama administration. A McCain spokeswoman said Bobby May was dropped this week from his job as McCain's Buchanan County campaign chairman.

May wrote in his column, "The (clarified) platform of Barack Hussein Obama," that if the Democratic senator was elected he would hire rapper Ludacris to paint the White House black and change the national anthem to the "Black National Anthem."

The column originally appeared in The Voice, a local newspaper. May has worked on dozens of state Republican campaigns, including those of former gubernatorial candidate and Attorney General Jerry Kilgore, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling and U.S. Rep. Virgil Goode.

Read more: http://www.news8.net/news/stories/1008/560659.html

[McCCain4retirment]

1. Next up,Palin

[rateyes]

2. I used to live in Russell Co, VA bordering Buchanan...

I knew a black man from Lebanon who said that when he died he wanted to be buried in Buchanan County, VA because that's the last place the devil would come looking for a black man.

I think the AA population in Buchanan County is zero. Pretty sure.

[Kalifornia.Kid]

3. Bigots Can Run But Can't Hide

Gotcha - now say cheese...

We know McCain doesn't know how to use a computer but thanks to technology the world can see his campaign of hate and division.

[Winnscott]

4. Remember "Macaca"?

Virginia "GOP'ers" are living in the 1930's.

[tblue]

12. And that worked out so well for Sen. Allen.

[Faygo Kid]

5. An adviser to Virgil Goode is a racist? Who could have known?

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Anyone have a link to the original Voice column? n/t

[ExPatLeftist]

7. Sorry - DUPE n/t

[ExPatLeftist]

8. Looks like McCain's new strategy.

Order direct racist attacks by his outlying supporters, people that are easily sacrificed. Then he fires them in a huff, and wins points for being against racism. Bring out the fear and get the hero points, it's a win-win.

[TwilightGardener]

9. Yep--who would think that this guy, a veteran of many campaigns who

lives in a state with a large black population, would have come up with this shit on his own?

[Texas Mom]

10. Bingo!

These thugs do the dirty work, then McNasty is shocked, just shocked, and benches them. Until next time, of course. What a joke.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. This is a campaign that is desperately flailing...

And fighting to get control of itself. But it won't, because to do that, it would have to get control of the repuke rank and file. It can't. Starting with Helen Chenoweth's outreach to the farthest fringes of the right, back in the early 90's, this was inevitable. She reached out to every baying-at-the-moon, rabbit-running mad dog of the right, the militias, the white supremacists, the haters and the real weirdos and the misfits.

And now, they are reaping the benefits of their scabrous bargain. May they choke on it.

[psychmommy]

13. wow i have family that lives down that way.

we have a family reunion outside of danville every year. but, alot of northerner's have moved down to va and i think they are making va purple if not blue. doesn't va have a dem governor. things will probably get real ugly and real racial down there but, it won't help mccain win.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

14. Locking.

This is an old news story from Thursday. That it's being reported again days later is beyond my understanding.

A quick link to the story when it originally broke: http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=9960

Headlined on 10/9/08:
McCain Forced to Fire Virginia County Chair Following Racist Newspaper Attack on Obama