In the rough and tumble of Alabama politics, the scramble for power is often a blood sport. Karl Rove in a successful series of campaigns to get Republicans elected to Alabama's state courts. 

Karl Rove and Richard Shelby are both considered American patriots in my home state of Alabama. That's not surprising since inbreeding has reduced the brains of Alabama voters to the extent they believed the racist George C. Wallace was none other than Jesus Christ who had returned to save them from Satan who was responsible for their incest and bigotry.

Talk about hypocrisy. When I was growing up in Florence, Alabama, you couldn't have found a home that didn't have a picture of George C. Wallace and the Last Supper in it. After dragging some black guy behind their pickup truck or throwing him off a bridge, they'd come home to supper and sit under this picture and say a prayer asking for more blacks to put to work in their cotton fields and to use for target practice.

I'll never forget fishing under the O'Neal Bridge and watching as some guys threw a young black man off of it. He hit the water and skipped like a flat rock. I started up our little Johnson outboard motor to go to the area where the guy had hit. My stepfather asked, "What do think you're doing? You mess with this, and tomorrow you'll be thrown off of some bridge." To my stepfather's credit, he thought it was okay for blacks to play professional sports, "Just so long as they stay in their place." I asked what place was that, but he didn't bother to say. A few days later, a deputy sheriff on hearing about this KKK event advised me, using many of the same words that my stepfather had used absent of any concern for my welfare, to avoid becoming known as a, "Nigger lover".