The Republicans: Heart of Darkness
The Guardian’s Michael Tomasky offers his own take on the bitterness and anger that has swept over McCain, Palin and their supporters: “That’s a shame for him, but McCain’s mental state is not the thing to be worried about here. The thing to be worried about is the impact that his campaign - “a national disgrace,” wrote Joe Klein of Time magazine - is having on the nation.
He and Palin - “his Sancho Panza”, as George Will mockingly wrote in the Washington Post - are deliberately stoking rage that is based on lies that they know to be lies (well, that at least McCain knows to be lies). The normally reserved commentator David Gergen said: “There is this free floating sort of whipping around anger that could really lead to some violence. I think we’re not far from that.”
We are seeing the dark, Gothic heart of resentment conservatism. It’s going to be a disgusting three weeks.”
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