A vast, deep collection of bile...

[elfs]

John McCain, last night, in a show of human decency, told his followers that Barack Obama is "a decent man, a family man," and that they have "no reason to fear him as president." I thought that was an excellent tack to take, although many on the left are speculating that there are reasons other than decency for it: maybe the anger and hatred he'd unleashed was a losing tack, maybe he's considering his legacy. For whatever reason, McCain has been doing the right thing.

He did, however, get booed for it when he said it. And I was curious to see how this turn of events has gone down with the fringe right. The results are telling. First, the freepers:

• "McCain SHUT UP! You are Pissing in your Cheerios!"
• "Obama is NOT HONORABLE We SHOULD be scared with him!"
• "His campaign and refusal to TELL THE TRUTH is PROOF that he is unwilling to do what is necessary to win."
• "It is a shame he has to ruin [Sarah Palin's] career too."
• "What a dolt."
• "Three weeks before the election McCain dismisses the most basic beliefs of patriotic conservatives and endorses Barak Hussein Obama."
• "He's a jack ass. This guy couldn't be a bigger idiot. "
• "Mccain makes me sick. Everytime I am fired up he throw some cold water."
• "I'm starting to hate him."
• "My respect can never be earned by criminal Muslim terrorists."
• "Can you respect your voters Mr. McCain?"
• "WE'RE NOT TURNING THE WHITE HOUSE KEYS OVER TO BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!"
• "Thanks John, for being a spineless, limp-wristed, RINO imbecile. And please keep that bitch you hired off the air too."

The Clownhall commenters:

• "Yes we are SCARED and NO this is NOT someone we want to have in the White House!"
• "Bully for the crowd!!!! John needs to figure this one out!!!!"
• "Barack Hussein Obama, Jr. is NOT a decent man. He can never be president."
• "McCain we're ready to fight, where the hell are you?"
• "Nothing wrong with McCain/Palin being inline with KKK mentality because they are white like most of us."
• "We just want McCain to embrace and magnify our anger."
• "The United States is the most important country in the world, and cannot afford an Obama presidency."

The Little Green Footballs:

• "I feel it is a sad day for all veterans. I thought we finally had found a fighter."
• "there's nothing about obama that doesn't scare me, wtf?"
• "I think I am going to go cling to my FN-FAL."
• "I'm voting for Palin."
• "Let's hope Sarah pulls him to the back of the plane over the weekend and smacks some sense into him."
• "This is what happens when we let the country club "compassionate" conservatives control the republican party."
• "Palin/SomeOldGuy '08"
• "he should not have said that."
• "BHO SCARES THE SHIT OUTTA' ME. He's a freakin' commie who plans on fucking up this nation"
• "I don't care what McCain says. . . Maybe I don't "have to" be scared of Obama as President, but I am anyway."
• "The tree of liberty..."

Comments

Re: Still...

[damiana-swan.livejournal.com]

And did any Republican protesters sneak into the Democratic National Convention and attempt to disrupt it? If so, I didn't notice them.

You mean, besides the idiot right wing white supremacists who went to Denver with high-powered rifles, fake IDs and disguises with the express intention of assassinating Obama during his acceptance speech and rented a room within rifle range with a view of the stage? Those Republican protestors? The ones who weren't charged with anything besides meth possession (I did say they were idiots) because the Bush-appointed US Attorney, after grabbing the case from the local authorities, refused to press charges of trying to assassinate Obama because they "weren't a credible threat"?

Seriously, if you do an honest compare/contrast between Dem and Pub, both politicians and supporters, there *is* material for comparison, but in large part that honest comparison will find that it's Democratic acorns vs. the mighty Republican oak tree in terms of dangerously destructive and inflammatory rhetoric.

You might find it interesting to do a search on how many pundits advocate violence against the left as opposed to how many advocate (equal) violence against the right. (For the record, I don't think it's fair to consider something from Rush Limbaugh or Ann Coulter as having the same weight as an anonymous comment left on an obscure diary post on the dailykos website.)

There's a reason Kathleen Parker, a longtime conservative columnist, was so shocked when she ended up on the receiving end of the bile and vitriol the rightwing base spews on a regular basis after publishing a column observing that Palin isn't qualified for VP--she's been publishing equally negative stuff about the left for years, but this was the first time she'd been so vilified.

Re: Still...

[ideaphile.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I mean besides them.

Anyway, those idiots were socialists-- National Socialists. Nazism has nothing to do with Republican or conservative politics.

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