An Experiment In Hate

Since this will be my last column before the election, I was hoping to write something positive about exercising your right to vote.

But the Republican rabble, in Congress as well as among the electorate, spurred on by an unrelentingly vicious Palin-McCain ticket and its utterly disgusting mismanagement, have made such a well-intentioned endeavor an impossibility.

The thought of John McCain in the Oval Office was distastefully scary enough, but it became entered the realm of horrifying when Sarah Palin hijacked the campaign and wrested control of the ticket from the aging senator.

After all the fearmongering based upon outright lies that “Sarah the Governor” and “John the Senator” have puked up at their rallies, inciting “real Americans” to act more like angry mobs out for blood, the insanity has actually intensified.

Clearly, it was Sarah who opened the floodgates for the vile invectives of hatred shouted aloud from those who fear honest discourse, well out of camera view and Secret Service scrutiny at Palin-McCain gatherings: “traitor,” “terrorist,” “kill him.”

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