Last weekend I got into a discussion with some folks about the future of Sarah Palin after the debate. I was figuring she had become a national joke. The campaign would just kind of lock her up and we had seen the last of her, at least until November 4th.
But I was wrong. Big time.
It is clear that the McCain crew has decided to use Palin to whip up some hatred. Course, vile, anti-semitic, racist hatred.
The Bill Ayers attack doesn’t seem to have much traction among the already committed Obama voters, Democrats, Independents and now some Republicans, a group which continues to grow in each day’s polling. But, boy is it whipping up the raw underbelly of the McCain base.
“Terrorist,” they screamed at Obama at a McCain rally. “Kill him,” some in the crowd were quoted as saying.
Observers heard racist slurs thrown at African American reporters and cameramen covering a Palin rally.
Radio fascist Sean Hannity ran a hour show on Fox, featuring a notorious anti-semite on Sunday night in prime time, attacking Obama.
These aren’t just desperate moves made by a campaign that is sinking fast in the polls. These are people who are preparing for life after an Obama victory and are beginning to organize now. Economic pain for working people is not going to end on November 4th or even in January. Organizing fear and anger and attempting to direct it at a black president and a potentially progressive dominated congress is their plan. History has seen stuff like it before.
That’s why winning isn’t enough. We have to beat them good.
Fred Klonsky 
I hope someone is researching possible connections between Palin and the Aryan Nation.
Her parents left Sandpoint, Idaho in 1964 but she returned to the same area in the early 1980’s to attend college. At this time, the region had become a Mecca for white supremacists. From the 1970s until 2001, the headquarters of the Aryan Nation was a 20 acre compound at Hayden Lake, Idaho, 40 miles south of Sandpoint.
Did she associate with these people and their sympathizers? It is highly likely, especially with her connections to the area. They were scattered throughout the area at the time and it probably couldn’t be avoided. That mentality is a definite fixture in the region.
I hope an investigator is on this one.