Many may not be aware that Senator John McCain voted against making Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Day a federal holiday in 1983. He later apologized for this vote and claimed it was a mistake. However, he has continued to associate himself with known racists.

McCain’s chief South Carolina Spokesman is Richard Quinn, founder and editor in chief of the magazine “Southern Heritage”. According to Salon.com:

Quinn’s articles have called Nelson Mandela a “terrorist” and King a man “whose role in history was to lead his people into a perpetual dependence on the welfare state, a terrible bondage of body and soul.” In another piece, Quinn said of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, “What better way to reject politics as usual than to elect a maverick like David Duke?”…

Why does John McCain continue to employ Richard Quinn as a spokesman? While he himself may disavow racism, paying a person like Quinn is a tacit approval of his beliefs.

This is kind of an old story, but anyone still up in the air on McCain ought to know about it. Seems McCain is raising money for George Wallace’s son (yes, that George Wallace). Well, Junior Wallace hasn’t exactly atoned for the sins of the father. Turns out he’s a close friend of the Council of Conservative Citizens. Here’s some info for the uninitiated. Basically, the CCC is the Klan without the bedsheets. So, why would McCain endorse and raise money for a white supremacist? Sounds like a good question for the next tour of the “Straight Talk Express”.