Bed Bath & Beyond's linens dept: A new leading political indicator?

Things Klanish seem to be animating The Internets today. One of the leading SC bloggers has it all figured out why the York County GOP headquarters got vandalized, if not by whom:

Over the weekend, the vandalism of the York County Republican Party campaign offices has received attention by new media, as well as traditional print media.

We understand intimidation tactics occcurred around the Upstate over the weekend. The same night in Chester, a GOP activist was accosted by several males when leaving the Chester GOP headquarters, who surrounded him and threatened him for opposing Barack Obama. He escaped unharmed.

According to Victory 2008 regional coordinator Joe St. John, the York County Democratic Party chairman was there with an apology before the news media arrived. While some would say that his fast response was coincidental and that he really didn't know these things were happening overnight ... we'll leave such judgments to our readers.

George Orwell once wrote "all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others" ... well, we're sure if a similar incident of vandalism occured at a predominantly-black church, NAACP office, or Democratic Party office, we'd see a little more outrage - as well as visitors from the Justice Department. But when it's part of a pattern of voter fraud and political intimidation tactics are directed at Republicans, it's no big deal. Such disparity reminds us that we still have a long way to go in building a truly equal, civil and tolerant society.

To whoever was behind these and other incidents, we would encourage them to go ahead and put on the bedsheets and light up a cross, because your words and deeds seem so much like a Jim Crow-era Klucker that it’s hard for us to tell the difference.

At least this way, you'd be more honest about who and what you are.

Elsewhere, a blogger styling himself The Libertarian Conservative made this contribution to the public discourse (h/t Queerty) :

Oh, sick! Apparently fueled by leftists allegedly to inject "imagined" racism into the presidential race, a conservative blogger created this horrifying image.

In case you can't read the fine print, it reads:

The Fucking Solution: Do not consult a doctor. Tie the rope tight. Do not try this at home; go somewhere where no one will find you. Do consumer alcohol while using this treatment. Do no sedate yourself. Do not care. Do not say goodbye. Do it now.

The blogger, who has since removed the image, says he created the image to fight fire with fire. He or she removed the post because it was being misread or some shit:

The point of the posting was being lost and the post itself was becoming the story. Which I never wanted to happen.

The point is, I made the far left have a knee jerk reaction. I also gave them something to talk about.

Again, as I stated in the actual posting itself, I never, ever wished any harm come to Obama, at all. I was simply making a point and doing exactly what the left is doing to Sarah Palin.

Hoping to preserve the ugliness, Washington Scandal reprinted the original post.