The Mad Rants of an Unconventional Soccer Mom

The rhetoric of the Wolf Slayer and McBush during the last two weeks has been very unsettling. They love to talk about Barack "Hussein" Obama and they love to accuse him of being dangerous, unamerican and a terrorist. The crowds have responded predictably with shouts of "kill him" and "terrorist" and "treason".  My fear is the slimmy tactic that the McBush campaign is engaging in will only take the slightest match to set off a powder keg of racial intolerance and religious fear mongering.  In fact it is already starting.  Dana Milbank reports:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

This is a very, very dangerous game McBush is playing. There are too many nutjobs out there like this one, with just a little bit of encouragement, will do something very bad. Just yesterday, McBush asked the crowd "who is Barack Obama?" Immediately you hear a supporter yell "terrorist." McBush pauses, the audience laughs, and McBush continues on, not acknowledging, not chastising, not correcting. He knows what he is doing. He is fostering hatred and negativity by not standing up to it. He should know better. It's appalling and is destroying whatever is left of his reputation.