The Kristallnacht Kampaign

I heard Seymour Hersh speak at Berkeley last night, and the subject of Sarah Palin was brought up in the Q & A. Hersh said he had no direct knowledge of Palin, has never met her (he was always careful to say when he was offering opinion or relating facts) so he doesn't have any more personal insight on her character than anyone else. But he was amazed, he said, by what he'd read about the audience behavior at Palin's rallies in recent days, and her followers' reactions to the wingnut read-meat she's been slinging. With her crowds (and McCain's) shouting out things like "terrorist!" and "traitor!" and "kill him!" in response to their attacks on Obama, as well as the verbal and physical threatening of reporters by her audience members, her events are more like war rallies than political speeches.

Culture war indeed.

But what Hersh could almost be certain of - again saying he has no special knowledge (always the factual reporter) but can speak from experience with the high end of national political campaigns - is that the Secret Service cannot be taking this kind of thing lightly. He would be very surprised if the director of the Secret Service hadn't already had discussions with the McCain campaign. Apparently the S.S. is already trying to track down some of the more *ahem* enthusiastic members of her audience.

Palin is deliberately pouring gasoline on crowds of already flaming asshole wingnuts. That is, of course, what they hired her for. And these reich-tards are getting scared, as the possibility of not only an Obama win but an Obama landslide looms, their worst nightmare come true.

A sacred wingnut is a dangerous wingnut.

Grandpa and the Church Lady are creating the worst kind of monster: a mob, the monster with a thousand heads and no brain. And what was the winger's biggest complaint about McCain's debate performance? He didn't shovel up the same kind of "fightin' words" as Sarah Mooselini's been spewing for days and throw them in Obama's face.

Here's the thing: two meth-head rednecks with guns and a stupid plan to assassinate Obama in Denver have already been arrested. There's a lot more where they came from, and many of them are likely smarter than those two shitheads, but equally deranged.

If Hersh is right, we may see Mooseburgers lightening up in coming days. Because there's nothing the Secret Service hates more than someone deliberately making their job harder. To an S.S. agent, "harder" means having to take a bullet. That's enough to ruin anybody's day.

For more insight on what happens when wingnuts get scared, there's this from the eeeevil 1960s: