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Funny, but the blowhard Andrew Sullivan didn’t have much to say about the eight years of burning Bush effigies, the chants of “Nazi” at everybody to the right of Lenin, and the intense hatred shown at “anti-war” and Democrat rallies to America.

Darth Palin in Bethlehem

Anarchy is loosed upon the world.  Her hour come round at last, speaking in Bethlehem, PA on Wednesday, I guess Sarah Palin just had to expel her bile again.  Although her rant earlier in the week in south Florida in which she said Barrack Obama “pals around with terrorists” incited chants of “terrorist” and “kill him” from the audience, she repeated the same lines with similar affect letting loose a bestial rush of frightening pent up frustration and hate.  Smiling, she didn’t pause to take notice much less to stop or condemn it.  She won’t or can’t restrain the impulse.  Having made venomous slurs and provocation the raw meat of her standard stump speech, I doubt she or her supporters can take it as well as they give it, but the situation is ripe, the rotting fruit hanging too low and heavy on the tree.  When Joe McCarthy used her tactics and language he was defiled as a despicable demagogue.  In the context of this campaign, by comparison, it can more rightly be called criminal hate speech intended to incite irrational and dangerously contagious anger.  Of course, the borrowed prologue from William Butler Yeats’ “The Second Coming” conjures up visions of no less than the Antichrist.  The parallels within the recent confluence of circumstances are simply too convenient to pass up pinning this satanic label on her but it’s not much of a stretch really given the radical and bizarre religious practices and characters she is associated with, not to mention such horrific ideas as putting a $150,000 bounty on the severed forelegs of slaughtered Arctic grey wolves, which she has put forward as Governor of Alaska.  Yes, $150,000!  A name with a more contemporary origin would be Darth Palin.  It was said of the arch villains in Star Wars that there were always two of the Sith Lords of the Dark Side, a master and an apprentice.  From their recent performances it figures Palin is the teacher and, notwithstanding his long-time reputation as a hot head, McCain, his panic growing, the eager sycophant and pupil.

Funny, but the blowhard Andrew Sullivan didn’t have much to say about the eight years of burning Bush effigies, the chants of “Nazi” at everybody to the right of Lenin, and the intense hatred shown at “anti-war” and Democrat rallies to America.

Bravo…

I’ve spent the last 20 years, since Reagan was elected, hearing Republicans called Nazis. I myself have been called a Nazi even though I’m a very libertarian conservative and reject all forms of authoritarianism. I rmember an instructor at my college calling conservative students Nazis, to their face.

For all of my adult life I’ve heard that Republicans want to starve poor people. I’ve personally witnessed waste, fraud and abuse. But wanting to keep the government from taking money is “starving poor children.”

During my entire education (BA, MA, MS) I’ve seen far more anger directed at Republicans (by professoers and college activists)than I’ve ever seen directed at the Democrats by anyone. Hell, I even remember a professor at UC Santa Cruz who wore a t-shirt that showed Reagan’s head in snipers cross hairs.

The left has been spewing vile hatred at their opponents for as long as I can remember. Since before I was born “progressives” have been whipping their followers into violent anger to get them to take out that anger on non leftists on election day.

Any now that some Republicans are angry, it’s Dangerous.

Why wasn’t it dangerous to call Bush a Nazi?

Why wasn’t it dangerous to repeatedly refer to Cheney as Darth Vader?

Why wasn’t it dangerous to call Reagan a Nazi?

he will attack Obama on his policies

What policies?

kbinerie - In the context of this campaign, by comparison, it can more rightly be called criminal hate speech intended to incite irrational and dangerously contagious anger.

Oh, great. Bring out the government censors. “Change you can believe in.”

The parallels within the recent confluence of circumstances are simply too convenient to pass up pinning this satanic label on her but it’s not much of a stretch...

Let me guess: your speech is exempt from “criminal hate speech” charge.

Hypocrite.

kbinerie:

what you’ve written here about Governor Palin is more angy, hateful, and vile than anything I’ve heard Palin or McCain say at any event.

The truth is that Obama chose to associate with a famous domestic terrorist of is own free will. He could have shown some good judgement and said no to assiciating with Ayers. To a lot of people, that’s a big issue that Obama’s been given a pass on by the mainstream media.

I don’t happen to be one of the people who cares as much about what Ayers did when obama was 8 to 19, but what he’s going now. Right now Ayers is still actively trying to overthrow our government by turning school children against their country. This to me is worse than all the bomb setting and shooting that the Weathermen did.

Through the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Obama aided Ayers in his “educational” endeavers. That’s what I care about.