I want John McCain to iron my shirt.

Labeling the black guy as "angry", huh? I guess we can abandon all pretense and just starting referring to John McCain as a fucking racist.

Ha! John McCain comes face to face with the stupidity of his campaign. And he doesn't like what he sees. Good.

Anybody with a conscience would take that as a teaching moment, but I'm pretty sure McCain's conscience has been on vacation in Tahiti for the last 8 years.

So is it open season to start calling McCain a cracker now?

He is worse than cracker. He is Honky McCrackerson, the Whitey King of Whitebreadsville.

That's almost as abysmal as Palin smirking while one of her supporters shouts "KILL HIM!" The Republicans have gone around the bend; they're advocating murder now. Beasts.

spoiler for the coming few months:

John McCain will retire from the Senate as a political exile early next year, after being tarred by his own party as a loser and the cause of the conservative Armageddon at the ballot box. He will die before the year is out, as his melanoma returns.

Sarah Palin will be ousted as Governor of Alaska early next year, having brought shame to her state. She will re-emerge as a Fox News host by next summer.

"But my friends, you ask such questions, and all you get in response is another angry barrage of insults"

Now this is Rovian politics 101. Notice the lack of subject in the key phrase -- an angry barrage of insults from whom? Very carefully phrased so that any angry insults on anyone's part anywhere can be attributed to Obama by implication. This excerpt also features one of my favorite Rove tactics, where you sucker-punch your opponent and then criticize them for seeming angry.

See also: "Class Warfare."

Like a fucking poli sci class in here. I'm sure taking notes.

@7: That sounds right.

Yeah, that McCain and Palin could hear these things and not take a second to go, "ok, that's not actually what we're suggesting" is just gross.

Janene Garafolo was on Real Time recently, and made the completely accurate and oft-overlooked point that REPUBLICANS AREN'T GOOD PEOPLE. On balance, they are less decent human beings than liberals. I hate to say that (because I'm a liberal), but it sure looks to be true (because I have a functioning cerebral cortex).

I have friends that are republicans (not many) who are great people and I love them dearly. But damn, I think they are fucking delusional and stupid when it comes to politics.

I have a few friends that are republicans(though one voted for Kerry the second time and has been rooting for Obama since the primaries, and the other dropped McCain after she realized that Palin really was that dumb). They are by no means bad people, they are loyal friends, and they are quite intelligent. However, they are also my least naturally empathetic friends, and among the three least honestly self-reflective. I don't think you have to be stupid to be a Republican, but I do think you have to be a little blind.

"Sarah Palin will be ousted as Governor of Alaska early next year, having brought shame to her state."

There may be some truth to that statement.

Palin's acceptance of the nomination has brought a good deal of on going examination of Alaska, its society and politics. It isn't pretty, and Alaskans are increasingly unhappy that their state is being "invaded" and its politics are now being dictated by Outsiders (a somewhat derisive term), i.e. the McCain/Republican campaign. Palin's ambition has come at the expense of Alaskans and they are increasingly less and less happy about that exposure, and it is rapidly spreading beyond the scope of political affiliation.

Note that I said "on balance". There are exceptions. Weird, perplexing exceptions. Obviously.

I guess nobody but me sees the irony in his last sentence here? He could just as well have been talking about the yahoos in the audience. Which I'm sure not one of them noticed.

my republican friends aren't as good of people as my liberal friends are

@9

Bob, if you believed half of what you say about this Slog, you'd never read it.

Hey, did you ever answer any of my questions about being a gay basher? I know it's kind of a rude question for me to ask, but I just want to know. Are you?

Oh, and Bob we can just take for granted that I'm like a Shih Tzu dog or whatever it is you said. You done said that, no need to repeat it.

So. Are you?

For most of the people that I am friends with or related to who are Republicans, the party has left them behind. At least that's what I'm trying to convince them. They are not bad people, just small government, fiscal conservatives...

Though, I do see that they are potentially less empathetic than more liberal folks I know. I don't know, something about being more focused on their own good than the good of the country (i.e., taxes and more government are bad for me).

The exception would be my fundie aunt and uncle who would vote for Tickle Me Elmo if he accepted Jesus into his heart and said that abortion is murder.

My fundamentalist aunt and uncle saw Obama waaaaay back in 2006 or something, and completely shifted. They're still fundamentalists, but they are 100% in favor of Obama, and see him as the greatest hope we have in America! They say that if he wins, they're flying to DC for the inauguration. After I picked my jaw up off the ground, I had to ask myself: would I fly to DC for the inauguration? Um...probably not. But oh, what a place it could be!!

It's so fucking ugly. This election shit is so wrong. I do believe that the person yelling out, "kill him" with Palin was talking about Obama.
The man behind the green curtain is no fuckin' Oz

John McCain and Sarah Palin, two fucking puppets who cannot and could not function alone or with each other. They have nothing of value to say at this point. Two sad, pathetic, rude and mean people. They want to eviscerate Obama and Biden. Yeah go ahead, nice try. Obama and Biden are winning. The game is almost over.

Ci-a-lis commercials - that's Senator John McCain's fate for the trip to the wilderness he's taking the Socialist Republicans on for the next 40 years.

But he'll never see the Promised Land - he's too old to finish the journey.

I'm not sure that you can make the generalization that Republicans are bad people. I think a lot of your average Republicans, the conservative religious types especially, are terrified of life in general. And Republican candidates know that they can exploit that fear and turn it into a vote.

F*** John McCain? Why does The Stranger have such a potty mouth? Aside from commenters, I don't see the editorial staff of the Daily KOS or the Hufffington Post using naughty four letter words. Certaintly the right-wing blogs don't.

RE: Republicans are bad people.

I like to use a simple analogy to describe the conservative/liberal/progressive differences:
Imagine we have found a genie in a bottle (I like to picture this as Barbara Eden, but you can picture Brad Pitt if you'd like). We get x number of wishes. The Liberal approach is: "Let's ask for the mostest, craziest thing we can think of right now." The Progressive says: "Let's think about this for a while to make sure we make a wish that will benefit the most people." The Conservative says: "Let's put the genie back in the bottle and forget we ever had a choice."

Conservatives want to roll the clock back to some time, either real or imagined, when life was grand. For many, that is prior to Roe v. Wade, or even prior to the Civil Rights movement. They want their schools to only have kids from families that look & think like they do. They want government to promote their particular religion, and discourage that of others. They simply cannot see that these desires, if realized, will eventually weaken the very nation they love.

This is why liberals & progressives think that conservatives are "bad people". It is an inherently selfish & repressive mindset, that perpetuates a childlike view of the world.

not all, or even most, republicans are bad people. i know there aren't maybe of them here to be offended by such comments, but that sentiment, the "us verses them," is also a childlike view of the world, bringing its own dangers.

growing up surrounded by conservatives i hated -- and rebelled against -- the moral and political bullying i was subjected to. it's sad to see some of the same sentiments and tactics used even when i agree with the bully.

As much as I would love to see Palin fade into obscurity post-election I think she will run for the senate. If she can't win in Alaska she will moce back to Idaho where they love her racist cant.

I grew up as an African-American in a very liberal bubble (aka, a college town in Iowa) and was raised by very liberal parents from the south and east coast. My father always told stories of being chased while visitng family in Kentucky or being kicked out of a country club pool in a suburb outside of Pittsburgh because he was trying to hang out with his white friends. I was called a "ni**er" by some homeless guy when I first moved here a few years ago but I brushed it off to nothing. These stories always seemed like that, stories.

African-Americans in my generation (mid-twenties) don't seem to get that the in-your-face racism is still real. I hope and pray that no matter what happens Americans,both black and white, take good hard look at just how much more work we have to do. When a black man puts himself through college, works as a community organizer and doesn't have seven homes is called an elitist, there is something very very wrong.