McKinney is the kind of Democrat that I really really like to see....lose big, and often. She is a divisive player of race politics. She is clearly personally unpleasant.

Who would give money to this toad?

Passing Shot--
She was my Congressional Representative. She's divisive. McKinney made a big deal of an opponent receiving campaign donations from Jews, she accused the Capitol Police of racism for simply trying to do their jobs (after physically confronting them), and she brought in Louis Farrakhan to campaign on her behalf in the primary against Denise Majette.

George Curry, editor-in-chief of the NNPA News Service and BlackPressUSA.com., commented in his 2002 op-ed piece "Cynthia McKinney's Assisted Suicide" that her obvious and virtually exclusive focus on courting votes from African-Americans, rather than reaching out to all potential supporters, was her downfall. That was the first of TWO times she was voted out of office as a member of the House.

After being forced into a runoff by Hank Johnson in the most recent primary, McKinney went after him for courting Republican voters (not a bad strategy, as it turns out). He ran as an African-American who would be a less "divisive" Democrat, and used that term, getting nearly 60% of the votes; the "divisive" label had credibility due to McKinney's actions and rhetoric.

From Slate: "During a nasty 1996 congressional campaign with racial tension on both sides, she called supporters of her Republican opponent 'holdovers from the Civil War days' and 'a ragtag group of neo-Confederates'. Never mind that her opponent was Jewish. And during the 2000 presidential campaign, she wrote that 'Gore's Negro tolerance level has never been too high. I've never known him to have more than one black person around him at any given time.' Never mind that Gore's campaign manager was black."

Divisive. Need more evidence?