The McCain-Palin campaign has had many problems. They’re running against an extremely focused and effective Democratic candidate in a year when most voters despise the sitting Republican administration. They put up a completely inexperienced vice presidential candidate who’s in the middle of an ethics investigation in her home state and who can’t help putting her foot in her mouth every ten seconds. In the face of an economic meltdown, their presidential candidate behaved like a junior high drama queen looking for attention. The “Everyman,” Joe the Plumber, they hoisted around like a gift from God has turned out to be much less like John Q. Public and a lot more like one of those much-maligned Hollywood-celebrity types, complete with press agents and country music contracts.    With the election just over 24 hours away, the rats are deserting the sinking ship faster than you can say “Tina Fey’s a genius” (CNN, “Former Reagan adviser endorses Obama,” 10/31/08).

I voted a couple weeks ago, but there’s just one thing I hope other folks remember as they head to the polls on Tuesday: The Republicans don’t like you. At least, they don’t like you if you belong to any of the following categories.

If you are:

Barack Obama

Joe Biden

William Ayers

Rashid Khalidi

Nancy Pelosi

A resident of San Francisco (Republicans for Family Values, 10/22/08)

A Chicago politician (John McCain political ad, 10/6/08)

A resident of any big city (McCain and Palin, Interview with Brian Williams, 10/23/08)

A New Yorker (Rush Limbaugh, 10/2/08)

A resident of northern Virginia (Nancy Pfotenhauer, 10/17/08)

An East Coast “elitist” (McCain and Palin, Interview with Brian Williams, 10/23/08)

A “Georgetown cocktail party” person (McCain and Palin, Interview with Brian Williams, 10/23/08)

A member of the “Washington elite” (Palin’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

An employee of any Big Oil company (Palin’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

An Ivy League alumnus (Rudy Giuliani’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

A community organizer (Palin’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

A member of the “do-nothing Senate” (Palin’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

A Hollywood celebrity (McCain political ad, 08/08) – particularly ironic in light of all the celebrities Republicans have put in office: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Fred Thompson, and Sonny Bono, to name a few.

A member of the media (Palin’s RNC speech, 9/3/08)

A Muslim (Meet the Press, 10/19/08)

Russian (Palin, Interview with Charles Gibson, 9/11/08)

Not a religious person (Rep. Robin Hayes, 10/25/08)

This is a short list of the people who have been on the receiving end of the McCain-Palin campaign’s most vicious attacks. Basically, the only people the Republican regime seems to like are Americans who live in small towns or rural areas, own guns, attend an evangelical Christian church regularly, do not have a college degree, and work at a blue-collar job.

So if that you do not fit that description, just remember: the Republicans do not like you. They do not respect your opinion. They do not think you are patriotic. They do not think you are a part of “real America” (Sarah Palin, 10/16/08). They do not deserve your vote.