Claiming an upset in Mississippi for the Democrat Party, Travis Childers beat Republican Greg Davis in a special election to fill the voided seat of Republican Roger Wicker, expanding the Democrat majority in the House to 236-199.

Democrats are backing up the assertion that they remain on the offensive in this election year, citing the past 7 years of bashing Republicans and President Bush endlessly.

What Democrats, in their glee neglect to say is they won this one through the usual Democrat Dirty Tricks, pulling out any sleazy despicable trick they could to win. They succeeded.

On the eve of this special election, National Democrats distributed flier’s tying the Republican candidate in the race to the Ku Klux Klan, a charge impossible to refute in the last minutes of the election.

Republicans immediately decried the Democrat Dirty Trick as desperate and said the charges are untrue, but the damage was done, Davis lost by 6 percentage points, with 90% of precincts reporting.

Democrat Childers was leading Davis 49-46 just weeks ago, why the need for such dirty tricks?

The flier claimed that Davis “wanted to honor the founder of the KKK with a statue in the town of Southaven,” where Davis serves as mayor. “Davis supported moving the statue of the founder of the Ku Klux Klan and first Grand Wizard from Memphis to Southaven after civil rights leaders tried to have it taken down,” says the flier.

Davis said through Campaign spokesman Ted Prill, “the flier is a complete falsehood and a lie.” Prill maintained that Davis never said that he would have taken the Forrest statue from Memphis, where it had become controversial. He did express interest in accepting a statue of Confederate President Jefferson Davis, who never had any links to the Ku Klux Klan.

While Republicans blasted this latest playing of he race card and dirty trick from Democrats, Democrats stood by their charge, knowing it could not be refuted in time to make any difference.

One wonders why the Democrats would make this charge after they have defended a member of their own party who has held office for the last 49 years and spent World War Two and after as a Grand Kleagle in West Virginia’s Ku Klux Klan?

John McCain claims he will run a “clean campaign,” not resorting to any dirty tricks or mudslinging. Obviously, he doesn’t have a clue what his former Senate partners and “friends’ will have in store for him in their quest for ultimate power at any cost over the country.

Will the spineless Republican stand up against these “dirty tricks?”