Two igno­rant crack­ers got them­selves arrested today after plan­ning to assas­si­nate Barack Obama.

Law enforce­ment agents have bro­ken up a plot by two neo-​Nazi skin­heads to assas­si­nate Demo­c­ra­tic pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Barack Obama and shoot or decap­i­tate 88 black peo­ple, the Bureau of Alco­hol, Tobacco Firearms and Explo­sives said Monday.

Assas­si­na­tion plot tar­get­ing Obama dis­rupted — Yahoo! News

Frankly, I’m sur­prised we haven’t seen more of this by now. I grew up in Texas, in a pre­dom­i­nantly black neigh­bor­hood. Seri­ously, there were three white kids in my high school, one of the larger schools in Hous­ton. Until I was ten or so, I thought I was just a really pale brother. But even so, I ran into enough big­oted red­necks to under­stand that the irra­tional roots of racism run deep in the south. It was only 40 years ago that the fed­eral gov­ern­ment had to inter­vene to guar­an­tee the right of reg­is­tra­tion and vot­ing to African Amer­i­cans (which still doesn’t work that well, see Florida 2000, Ohio 2004).

There are still a lot of igno­rant white peo­ple in the south who just can’t accept the idea of a black pres­i­dent of the United States. It is lit­er­ally alien to their entire world­view. I think one of the few things the Repub­li­can party has done right this elec­tion cycle is keep­ing these wingnuts out of the news, sweep­ing real domes­tic ter­ror­ists like the Klu Klux Klan under the rug until the elec­tion is over. But those idiots are still down there, and they’ll still be there after Novem­ber 4^th. What do we do about them then?

And sore losers, too, appar­ently. And the elec­tion hasn’t even hap­pened yet.

DENVER (AP) — Democratic Party offi­cials say a sec­ond brick has been thrown through a win­dow at Demo­c­ra­tic Party head­quar­ters in Den­ver. Spokesman Matt Far­rauto says the brick had the word “mav­er­ick” writ­ten on it.

9NEWS.com | Colorado’s Online News Leader | Dem head­quar­ters van­dal­ized by ‘mav­er­ick’ brick

It’s sad, really, that reac­tions like this (not to men­tion cries of “trai­tor!” and “kill him!” when Obama is men­tioned at McCain ral­lies) is what passes for Repub­li­can “Joe Six-​pack” com­men­tary. It’s not sur­pris­ing, but it is sad. It’s not sur­pris­ing because it’s become increas­ingly obvi­ous over the last decade or so that if you’re the kind of per­son who might throw a brick or drink any­thing that comes in a six-​pack, you have absolutely no busi­ness being a Repub­li­can in the first place. The cog­ni­tive dis­so­nance of any­one mak­ing under a mil­lion dol­lars a year who con­sid­ers them­selves a proud mem­ber of the GOP must be nearly crippling.

News­flash for the anony­mous brick thrower: John McCain and Sarah Palin don’t give a toasted damn about you. You’re noth­ing more than igno­rant can­non fod­der for their big money back­ers. Come to the Democ­rats. We’ll not only wel­come you with open arms, but we’ll actu­ally work for your own best inter­est. Think about it.