Over the weekend, McKalip emailed a fellow activist, reporting that he had been at a conservative medical association meeting, with leaders of the anti-reform movement, including GOP congressmen Tom Price and Paul Broun, anti-reform writer and activist Betsy McCaughey, and Tea Party coordinator Amy Kremer. Conservative doctors and their allies have been organizing in recent days in response to the White House’s<\/font> event this morning<\/a> featuring pro-reform doctors.<\/font><\/p>\n McKalip’s email was then forwarded on to a Tea Party Patriots email list. <\/font><\/p>\n In the lengthy email, which was obtained by TPMmuckraker, McKalip urged fellow activists to put aside <\/font>"<\/font>dissension"<\/font><\/a> in the ranks and to stand up to "Alinsky personal attack tactics" — perhaps a reference to his own downfall. "The American people are counting on us."<\/font><\/p>\n After his racist email was exposed in July, McKalip<\/font> announced<\/a> he would be "withdrawing from making media appearances on health system reform." But his email over the weekend makes clear that he didn’t from being a behind-the-scenes player, and from working to rally his fellow activists\u2026<\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Inserted from <TPM<\/a>><\/p>\n That image sickens me. The only reason I am displaying it here is to demonstrate the vile depths to which the GOP has plummeted. It has been suggested that I\u2019m painting with too broad a brush, that the behavior of a few wing-nuts on the fringe does not exemplify the GOP as a whole. First, when I refer to the GOP, as when I refer to the Democrats, I\u2019m talking about the leadership and the public figures, not the rank and file common folk. In this case, if McKalip does not embody the the GOP as a whole, then why didn\u2019t GOP Congressmen Tom Price and Paul Broun refuse to meet with him?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Even though he pledged to abandon activism after he was exposed as the source of a racist email, including the horrid image displayed below, David McKalip is back. Florida neurosurgeon David McKalip is back in the thick of the fight to stop health-care reform — just over two months after pledging to withdraw from the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"obama-witchdoctor-muck\"](\"http:\/\/s217.photobucket.com\/albums\/cc83\/TomCat1948or2\/Blog%202009\/RacismAliveandWellinGOPAntiReformFight_1865\/obamawitchdoctormuck.jpg\" "\\"obama-witchdoctor-muck\\"")
<\/a> Florida neurosurgeon David McKalip is back in the thick of the fight to stop health-care reform — just over two months after pledging to withdraw from the public debate on the issue in the wake of a furor set off when TPMmuckraker<\/font> published a racist email<\/a> he sent showing President Obama as a witch doctor.<\/font><\/p>\n