When life gives you lemons, Republicans take them and make lemonade.

If there is a way for them to profit from the mortgage foreclosure they helped create ... the GOP is up to the task.

The chairman of the Republican Party in Macomb County, Mich., a key swing county in a key swing state, is planning to use a list of foreclosed homes to block people from voting in the coming election as part of the state GOP’s effort to challenge some voters on Election Day.

“We will have a list of foreclosed homes and will make sure people aren’t voting from those addresses,” party chairman James Carabelli told Michigan Messenger in a telephone interview earlier this week. He said the local party wanted to make sure that proper electoral procedures were followed…

Carabelli is not the only Republican Party official to suggest the targeting of foreclosed voters. In Ohio, Doug Preisse, director of elections in Franklin County (around the city of Columbus) and the chair of the local GOP, told the Columbus Dispatch that he has not ruled out challenging voters before the election due to foreclosure-related address issues.

Don't say they can't get you coming AND going.

But wait, it gets EVEN better:

The Macomb County party’s plans to challenge voters who have defaulted on their house payments is likely to disproportionately affect African-Americans who are overwhelmingly Democratic voters. More than 60 percent of all sub-prime loans — the most likely kind of loan to go into default — were made to African-Americans in Michigan, according to a report issued last year by the state’s Department of Labor and Economic Growth.

And, as Eartha Jane Melzer, the person who discovered all this in the Michigan Messenger notes -- the GOP loves it when a plan comes together:

...the McCain campaign’s Michigan headquarters is located in the office buildiing of Trott & Trott, a law firm that specialized in foreclosures, whose founder is a major Republican fund-raiser.

Of course, John McCain is deserving of great credit in facilitating the measures that led to the foreclosure epidemic. So I guess he feels Maverickly-enabled to take advantage of the suffering he helped cause.

Republicans claim they love America. But they sure don't seem to like Americans much.

[Cross-Posted at Firedoglake]