Tea Party activist sends racist picture

The American conservative movement might have recovered if it actually had ideas.

But nope.

All it has left is sore loser tantrums and racist fail.

Dr. David McKalip (pictured here) is a right-wing activist involved in the oft-ridiculed Tea Party movement. The Florida neurosurgeon also serves on the American Medical Association's House of Delegates.

As a hard-charging voice of rightist extremism, McKalip founded a group he calls Doctors for Patient Freedom, which opposes health care reform. He joined right-wing congressmen for a forum to warn against fixing the broken medical system. He even wrote an op-ed for the St. Petersburg (Florida) Times attacking medical reform.

Everyone knows the current Tea Party movement is rife with racist harangues and imagery. But McKalip isn't some ordinary BTPer. His prominence makes his racism even more telling of what helps guide the Tea Parties.

On Sunday, McKalip forwarded a picture that portrayed President Obama as a stereotyped African witch doctor to a Tea Party listserv on Google that he's a member of. To accompany the picture, McKalip wrote, "Funny stuff!"

But nobody is laughing - except the Tea Party sore losers, since they're the only ones who think it's humorous.

And the right-wing brain trust wonders why they're losing support? If they actually had coherent ideas, they wouldn't see the need to keep sending out nonsense like this.

What makes this meltdown even worse is that they're using this imagery to attack health care reform, at a time when it's too important to be reduced to such a level.

I can't wait to see the results of the next election.

(Source: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/07/conservative_activist_forwards_racist_pic_showing.php?ref=fpa)