What connection? What alighment?
Do you not know about the writings in the published articles, the pictures of them together, thats the connections, added to that, the donations from loons like Don Black.
The haters can't backup their claims with facts... they just want to damage people by making factless claims in order to damage whoever it is they hate on a particular day.
No need for those comments, let's try to have a debate or a discussion about it.
See here is the difference for me. There are certainly people in this country that are racist, race-biting, biggots without a doubt, some more subtle than others (Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton) some not so subtle (Don Black and the likes). You would think that someone who was trying to run for office, whether it be congressional, local, or national, or even Presidential, that they would try and hide or rather disassociate from some of their fringe supporters because 1) its disgusting what some of these people believe (these being the racists) 2) racism is undoubtedly wrong in the minds and perceptions of the American people so to even be mentioned in the same sentence as one should make the candidate cringe and 3) even though these loons are without a doubt going to associate with a candidate for their own reasons and exercise their right to vote (which is fine by me) it should stand to reason that the candidate would not want to be known as the 'candidate for the racists' or any other similar type attack.
As an American, does that mean you are guilty of their character flaws? Remember... guilt by association.
Surely you can't be serious? I am not running for an election where I have to convince the majority of Americans to vote for me to get me elected, Americans who include older black folk who have experienced true racism, hispanic citizens who have undoubtedly experienced some form of racism, etc to all the other nationalities represented in this country. They need to know that the person they will be voting for has no ties to some white supremacy website or anti-anything not white groups. To answer your question, no I am not guilty of their flaws, because I DO NOT associate with them, I don't take contributions, photo ops, and contribute articles to their writings.
Obama's connection with his 'mentor' Rev Wright is so much worse than RP's, but they are in the same boat.