Okay, I was going to post my feelings in the diary discussing Frauline Palin's Ayers smear but I am too pissed off and too concerned to not shout a louder, even if it results in my being banned from the Kos. So, perhaps my last post here but...
how can anyone conclude the foam-mouthed, right wing ideologue who screamed "kill him" could have been referring to Ayers? Because it would seem irrational? Well, hello irrational hatred is the point of Palin's new aggressive style.
The point of the speech is that to say that OBAMA is palling around with America hating terrorists, she is running against the Obama ticket, and the widely reported strategy is that Palin new role is to unleash her hate dogs against Obama. So, it ain't Ayers they're booing.
Do not underestimate the sheer true-believer mania that Palin can invoke among the fundamentalist base.
Let's drop the politically correct pretense of respecting their fine Christian faith. Speaking as an atheist, these people are reveling in pre-Enlightenment thought and many are projecting their totalitarian fantasies onto a Big White Supremacist in the sky.
No one talks about respect when Islamic extremists declare a jihad against say Salman Rushdie.
These Old Testament Christian extremists are just as capable of declaring a Christian jihad against Obama. These are people who do believe in final solutions and acting on the perverse messages that "God" put in their little heads.
My hometown is Knoxville Tennessee. This Spring a bitter, unemployed right wing nut job with a car full of books by Coulter, Liddy and other neo-con hate mongers, walked into a unitarian church service (a church that openly supported gay and lesbian rights) and killed 2 people and seriously wounded nine more. Worse still, he was turning his gun toward the stage where children, who had just been performing a play, were crouched down. A church deacon rushed the shooter, taking a fatal bullet but heroic act allowed others to overpower this self-proclaimed "Christian warrior" who was doing "God's will." McCain-Palin only need one nut job. Actually, Bush-Mcain-Palin-Rove only need one nut job because an Obama assassination (yeah I wrote it) would provide the preconditions for declaring martial law.
Do you really believe Republican strategists have not pondered the full range of possibilities that could arise if they can spark enough irrational and hatred of Obama?
Last fully realize that the wingnut base is voting for Palin and envision her as becoming their theocratic leader. [If I were McCain and won, I would sure as hell hire a food tester].
The media has given Palin political legitimation by falsely praising her debate performance. Now she has the credibly to go on the campaign trail and do what she does best - preach hate and divisiveness.
I don't think she can turn the election but she sure as hell could plant the seeds that eventually get someone killed.
I was seven years old when RFK was murdered. I will always remember the agony that my mom suffered as a result. Like a lot of poor Southern whites, she believed that RFK truly understood, truly cared, and would make America a better place for everyone. I know a lot of people (including myself) feel that way about Barack Obama. I am getting very scared about history repeating itself.
The MSM is seriously complicit in this threat to democracy by reporting Palin-McCain's unabashed used of lies, smears, and hateful rhetoric as merely an expected turn in the campaign.
I am not sure what the right course of action should be other than to sound every possible alarm and flood media with demands that they not countenance this racist, fascist, demagoguery from Palin-McCain.
Just in case I am banned, I will keep lurking and it has been nice blogging with y'all.