10/16/2004 10:33:53 AM|||Nathan Moore|||

Admitted race baiting as a matter of political strategy is reprehensible. Hard corps partisans on the Democratic side will claim some lame excuse, like it was taken "out of context" - it's amazing how much context you need these days to be a Democrat - but training political operatives to allege racism without evidence demonstrates a rotting, if not rotten, political soul.

If you're willing to yell out racism with no provocation, which is exactly what the monicker "voter intimidation" really means, you don't really care about the political process in this country. And worse, you don't care that you're making character assassination a matter of course. Someone had to be intimidating the voter, whether it be a poll worker or a policeman. The governor of Colorado stated he didn't want people who registered 35 times to vote 35 times - the response? Of course, that was voter intimidation.

If you're side can't win, or won't try to win, without stooping to screaming allegations of racism, what are you fighting for? If you have to manufacture racism, the most abominable of sentiments in modern America, to gain electoral advantage, why does your side exist? It is certainly not to do good. The ends cannot justify the means when the means involve the manufacture of hatred in a civic process. Dividing the races is something all politicos should be above. The Republicans certainly are - the Democrats are obviously not.

Here is the most lame Democratic response

But Democrats, who verified as authentic the page from a playbook called "Colorado Election Day Manual: A detailed guide to voting in Colorado," said they must be pro-active to assure that minorities and all others are not scared away from the polls.

Sue Casey, head of the Kerry-Edwards Colorado campaign, said the Republicans are also happy to plant a negative story to detract from what reporters should be writing about.

"Look what we're talking about today instead of the fact that George Bush lost three debates and is fading, instead of not having health care, instead of having a disaster in Iraq," she said.

Yes, let's now talk about the issues instead of whole-cloth fabricated hate. It's convenient that the issues are on the table once the methods are shown to be horrid. You can't have it both ways. The

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