More Astroturfing: I am Heartbroken that My Fellow Repubicans are Calling Barack Obama "Jungle Bunny"

"George Toma," who's pretty direct about just reading directly from Obama's stump speeches. And then addding some extra spice.

As a lifelong conservative who's always been at least somewhat active in local politics I can tell you there's a lot of enthusiasm for the Republican ticket right now. Nothing like the unbridled exhultation I saw when volunteering for the Reagan campaign back in college, but definitely a huge boost with the Palin pick.

I have become troubled, though, by the sometimes overt racism directed towards Obama. Beyond the stuff you hear all the time - he doesn't look like us, he has a funny name, he's a muslim - some truly vile attacks like "spear chucker", "jungle bunny", and of course "lawn jockey." It's shocking enough to hear these things from racists on television, but when it's the people who you've sat next to on the church bench for years while the reverend reads Mass...let's just say I've become truly disillusioned with the Republican Party as a whole and John McCain in particular for perpetrating these divisive stereotypes.

I'm heartbroken at what my party has become.

The Pledge, the Turn, the Prestige. All there. Simple whitebread name, though this time we do get a last name. "Toma." That sounds like a real name to me.

Punked! Oh, damnit, it was one of our own, parodying the form.

Shit. I was suspicious but that didn't keep me from postiing.

posted by Ace at 08:17 PM

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