So McCain says, “No ma’am, he’s a decent family man” as if Muslims can’t be and that’s the only defense anyone has to the fact that the McCain/Palin campaign wasn’t racist.

Totally. Believable.

Look, I don’t think anyone is disputing that John McCain was fairly honorable and didn’t go out of his way to encourage hate amongst his followers. Palin? Palin is another story. That woman did everything she could to enrage the fringe followers of the campaign. She stood right in front of someone yelling KILL HIM! HE’S A TERRORIST! And smiled as if it’s perfectly acceptable to listen to death threats to a US Senator and not react.

That’s disgusting and the votes proved that most people are on my side on this issue. So, if the Republicans want to continue to pander to the crazy fringe go ahead because it’ll only help us win more elections!

She’s a black woman in America and she had to ask this?

George W. Bush isn’t Hitler, he’s just somewhat fascist. In terms of a body count he’s doing “better” than Saddam did

You are attributing causation unfairly as noted above.

The questioning of one’s associates and past choices was and still is perfectly reasonable considering the job description of POTUS. Being a member of Congress, considering oneself a patriot, and being an American does not automatically guarantee good judgment or sound reasoning as we have seen in the past (Craig, Stevens, Ward, Rangel, Renzi, Abramhoff, Cunningham, McKinney, Jeffersson, Delay, Torricelli, Traficant, & Mezvinsky.)

Bury your heads in the sand all you like and claim ignorance, but our candidates were NOT on stages rallying the fringe.

The most inflammatory thing Palin said was that Obama “palled around with terrorists.” But – that’s objectively true. Obama did, in fact, freely associate (for political gain, no less) with Ayers and Dohrn, who, in fact, committed terrorist acts against the United States.

If anything, the McCain/Palin campaign held back. Unlike the Clinton campaign, they refused to bring up anything have to do with Rev. Wright.

McCain even went so far as to tell people at rallies that “Obama is a decent person and a person you don’t have to be scared of as president of the United States.” Hardly. Hate. Speech.

And the left had plenty of it’s own “hate” issues you seem happy to glance over. This campaign saw Biden saying undecided voters were racist. We witnessed Obama-supporting Congressman John Murtha explicitly calling all of western PA racists. The Associate Press took every opportunity to denounce any attacks from the McCain/Palin campaign as being “tinged with racism.” The press as a whole was happy to run story after story that if McCain actually won it would be solely due to racism.

Obama supporters were happy to joke we should “Abort Palin,” wear t-shirts calling her a “c*nt,” and in Philly, yell “Let’s stone her! Old school!”. Madonna used a video tying McCain to Hitler on her latest tour. A Columbia professor hung a Sarah Palin effigy from a noose.

This is nothing new to the right. We’ve been listening to Bush=Hitler (or worse) for 8 years. The Obama assignation plot that got so much press a few weeks ago is worth denouncing as loud as possible, but it really had no chance of succeeding. In contrast, George W. Bush has survived two actual assignation attempts – not just failed “plots” but two actual real attempts involving real weapons being used. I would bet you and your readers can’t actually name these events though.

There are haters on both sides. They should all be denounced. But McCain and Palin didn’t create them, and the legacy of their campaign is not “Hate.”

Claiming there was nothing Sarah Palin said or did to warrant those spikes is just the biggest whitewash of what really occurred, what we ALL witnessed, that I don’t even know where to begin.

John McCain himself asked the questions just who IS barack obama. As if he were not a US Sentor, a patriot, or an American.