Scary, but sad.

[prog]

The McCain campaign decided to let Palin do as she please, and she's responded by encouraging entire crowds to hurl obscenities at their own media coverage, shout racial epithets, and call for murderSome pale that it sounds like the start of a lynch mob, but I disagree; they have no teeth left for that, and anyway that works best only when nobody's

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[radtea]

Nothing lasts forever, not even the absence of racist nutjobs from the national stage. But a decade's respite might be worth something.

The only problem is that while the Republican Party rebuilds itself out of the ruins, the Democratic Party will have a free hand in Washington. NOTHING keeps politicians even borderline honest than the belief that they might lose the next election. When the Opposition does not constitute a viable government-in-waiting the party in power will always go quickly down the "all corruption, all the time" highway.

[prog]

This again reminds me of how I was honestly energized only two years ago at the thought of a McCain-executive Democratic-legislative combo. I'm so sad he took the road that he did.

[cortezopossum]

This whole election looks like an exercise in self-destruction (of course, the economy is following suit).

[mmcirvin]

It's a valid point, but I do question why the opposition that keeps the Democrats in check necessarily has to oppose from the right.

[radiotelescope]

I'd love a (truly) conservative opposition party in the US. Can we graft one from Canada or somewhere?