Right Hooks Democrats' Last Campaign Play Includes Race Baiting

If you’re a Democrat, behind in the polls and desperate for a Hail Mary to get constituents to the voting booth, make a chop block at the line of scrimmage. Bring up slavery, bait races and divide Americans. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) made this play, implying a vote for the Republican Party is a vote for the KKK. “Everything we believe in – everything we believe in – they hate,” the incumbent Democrat insisted. “They don’t disagree – they hate! … Some of them believe that slavery isn’t over and they think they won the Civil War!” Louisiana’s Mary Landrieu added, “I’ll be very, very honest with you. The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.” In Georgia, Maryland and North Carolina, flyers have been distributed warning of a resurgence of Jim Crow laws and a repeat of the violence in Ferguson. It’s all an effort to inflame black voters, to get them to the polls in hopes of turning the tide of a GOP takeover of Congress. Democrats’ flagrant unsportsmanlike conduct drowns out any voice of reason. More…