Republican smear machine: McCain surrogate mocks Obama, ridicules Hillary

[jedreport]

Via the always outstanding Las Vegas Gleaner (a local blog):

Clark County Republicans held their convention Saturday, drawing a record crowd for a day of pep talks about the party's prospects in November and disputes about what the party should stand for.

(snip)

Standing in for McCain was Mark Shurtleff, the attorney general of Utah. He noted that Utah also went overwhelmingly for Romney, but reminded them that Romney, in his speech leaving the race, called for the party to come together to defeat the Democrats in the interest of national security.

Shurtleff repeatedly ridiculed the opposition for their personal characteristics. "Barack or Hillary -- my apologies to the Baracks or Hillarys in the audience, but even their names sound liberal," he said.

Referring to a Clinton ad that asks who is best suited to rise to a late-night crisis, Shurtleff said, "When Hillary gets the call at 3 a.m., the call is, 'Do you know where your husband is?'" And he pointedly referred to "Obama's fathers -- one was African, one was Indonesian."

http://www.lvrj.com/news/16429526.html

At the rate he's going, John McCain is going to have to apologize for every single damn member of his party.

He is so yesterday.

As the Gleaner noted:

Curiously, Shurtleff refrained from making any mention of his own father, who was apparently a narrow-minded bigot willing and even eager to not-so-subtly exploit the irrational racism and paranoia that underlies some of the ugliest aspects of the most ignorantly vulgar among us for personal and even political gain, and a man who took pains to assure that his son grew up harboring a similarly barren, destructive and terrified view of the world and the vast majority of the people in it.

[rpannier]

1. And mclame will feign his opposition to this kind of behavior

and the media will fawn over mclame's idiocy and regurgetate how 'Maverick and independent of McCain to repudiate this vile behavior."

[JI7]

2. racist piece of shit , has McCain condemned him ?

[jedreport]

3. no -- this totally below the radar

it was an incredible find by whoever does the gleaner because it was completely buried in the article.

i would assume the speech was even worse because the lvrj is a super-right wing newspaper, if they reported this it must have been pretty bad.