Like most folks here I visit the wingnut site Redstate. Sometimes just for the comedy to see how riled up the gun-totin', six-pack swillin', bible thumpin', east coast media elite hatin', nut-balls are doing. Other times to see what some of the more restrained voices have to say. The latter btw are pretty rare.
I usually take some antacid first or down a bottle of Maloxx and some scotch afterwards, but this post I saw over there this morning really, really got me. This from a guy called Steph C. Grab a barf bag and take a look. (Disclaimer: all bolding has been added by me)
"GC is right. This election isn't over until it's over and the left is too desperate to make it be over. I, too, have my negative moments but the more the left tries to bully me and convince me that Obama has the election, the surer I am we're still in this fight. They wouldn't be trying so hard if we weren't.
The MSM and Obama supporters are scared to death of Palin and that's obvious.
They're also scared of McCain which isn't so obvious.
They want us to believe they're "useful idiots and I don't believe that for a minute"... even when I want to grind my teeth at some of McCain's worst ideas. The Democrat Party used to have some respectable people in it and that's the party McCain remembers. When he realizes they aren't the same party they used to be, and I believe he's coming to realize it already, he will start naming names. We want it now, but sometimes waiting is the best strategy and McCain is an old warrior.
If Obama wins it will split this country in two, literally in two. The military will be gutted by its own hand because it will not serve under him. For months there have been whispers of taking up arms against Washington but the whispering is getting louder. If Obama wins and lets lose his thug regime, they will take up arms against him. I'd dearly love to avoid that happening.
The MSM and Obamanationites think they are pushing people into apathy, so much they won't bother to vote. Some will be that way but most are just angry.
In addition, if you read your Revelations, there are going to be some extremely religious people out there who are looking at Obama as the Anti-Christ. He has been named, by a Jew no less, when Cohen likened him to Jesus in front of Congress, I believe it was. He has songs written for him, eerily reminiscent of Hitler's movement and Mao se Tung. And out of his own mouth he has promised miracles(the seas will stop rising and lights will shine down on people voting for him). And much of his rhetoric is also reminiscent of the speeches Hitler gave on his way to power.
Now, I'm not saying he is, but you can bet there are people out there thinking he is and they will reject him.
We think in terms of his marxism and what his policies will mean to this free nation. His supporters think in terms of movements similar to Hitler's in Germany; if they can't convince, they bully and threaten us. They forget one thing: Germany never had a country like ours with people who believe in the inalienable rights under which we have prospered. These Americans will reject him,too, happy or not with McCain.
As someone else said, it's not over until it's over."
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I am not going even try and rebut any of this, it would take entirely too much time and effort, and ultimately it would be a waste of breath. I also know that there is far worse than this on other right-wing sites around the web.
The point here is that there are people out there, the author of the above piece for one, that actually believe that kind of trash. The neo-cons and the religious right have so poisoned the political discourse with their blatant hate, their not so hidden code word or code phrase hate, (small town, family value, all-American, etc)that many people truly believe that the military would actually try and stage an armed coup if Obama is elected President. I can't even ask the rhetorical question of "Are they crazy?", because they obviously must be.
To be really honest these ARE the people who "cling to their guns and religion". And when they cling too tightly you wind up with people like Timothy McVie. The really scary part is that we can clearly see that there are more McVie's just waiting in the wings (so to speak) who seem more than willing to try and spark off their own form of Kansas City, but only on a much grander scale.
We can hope that it won't really happen. That they will see Obama win, the military will remain loyal, and these candidates for Arkham Asylum will swill their six packs and quietly wallow in their discontent and hate to the end of their days.
So this is the reason why I vote. To make sure that NO ONE who even thinks remotely like this ever again gets anywhere near the White House or Congress.