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McCain: Guilt-By-Association For Thee, Not For Me
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| Contributor | ArmyDem |
| Last Edited | ArmyDem Apr 29, 2008 03:38pm |
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| News Date | Tuesday, April 29, 2008 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
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If he insists on lowering the guilt-by-association standard, he will need some more protection.
Today, McCain is in Selma in a high-profile attempt to reach out to African-American voters and show that he rejects the racism that has been prevalent in the Republican Party -- as he did earlier when he apologized for previously opposing a Dr. Martin Luther King holiday.
Yet one of his long-time "senior political consultants" is Richard Quinn, long-time head of the racist Southern Partisan Quarterly Review. That's a far closer tie than what Obama has to Ayers.
According to the blog Anti-Neo-Confederate, Quinn was still listed as the owner of the magazine as recently as 2005.
McCain's employment of Quinn was raised in his 2000 presidential campaign. Quinn was editor-in-chief of Southern Partisan at that point, though he tried to downplay his role. From the NY Times in 2000:
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In 2000, People For American Way called on McCain to fire Quinn, listing his disparaging of Nelson Mandela as a "terrorist," his promotion of David Duke ("What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?") and his selling of t-shirts praising Abraham Lincoln's assassination. |
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