Post in Civility Re: Palin incites Obama assassination

Oct 11 23:27 UTC

John McCain deserves kudos for his clear statement of the need for
civility and comity in our political process.  Unfortunately, the booing
from his supporters is a sign of how bad things have become with the
increasing radicalization of the Republican Party

The intolerance which, IMHO, has been driven by the Religious Right,
anti-abortion forces and radical right wing talk radio has apparently
even gotten the attention of Senator McCain.  His statements reinforce
my opinion that he is at base a decent man.  However, in picking Palin
and using the very people who scurrilous engineered his defeat in 2000
he has shown a willingness to go places to win I find troubling.

The Acorn voter registration effort is seriously flawed by design.  As
we saw in Minnesota, when you pay people piece work for voter
registration, the incentive is to cheat by manufacturing registrations
to get paid.  These are not "voter fraud" in the sense of attempting to
cast fraudulent votes but employee theft since the goal is to be paid
for work not done.  PIRG, ACORN and Cleanwater Action, among others,
make their employees earn their keep without adequate supervision and
management invites problems as we saw in Minnesota and now in other states.

I am really impressed by the unanimous vote of the Alaska Legislative
Council to approve their investigators report.  The response of the
Palins that ethics only can involve money is sad.  Watergate did not
involve financial discretions, it involved abuse of power which is
exactly what she is accused of by the report.