Panic attacks: Voters unload at GOP rallies

[DogPoundPup]

The unmistakable momentum behind Barack Obama's campaign, combined with worry that John McCain is not doing enough to stop it, is ratcheting up fears and frustrations among conservatives.

And nowhere is this emotion on plainer display than at Republican rallies, where voters this week have shouted out insults at the mention of Obama, pleaded with McCain to get more aggressive with the Democrat and generally demonstrated the sort of visceral anger and unease that reflects a party on the precipice of panic.

The calendar is closing and the polls, at least right now, are not.

With McCain passing up the opportunity to level any tough personal shots in his first two debates and the very real prospect of an Obama presidency setting in, the sort of hard-core partisan activists who turn out for campaign events are venting in unusually personal terms.

"Terrorist!” one man screamed Monday at a New Mexico rally after McCain voiced the campaign’s new rhetorical staple aimed at raising doubts about the Illinois senator: “Who is the real Barack Obama?”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14445.html

[Turbineguy]

1. What are they afraid of?

That the economy will not collapse and they won't lose their house, car and belt buckle?

[DogPoundPup]

2. David Brooks explains it...over the past few decades, the Republican Party has driven away people

who live in cities, in highly educated regions and on the coasts. This expulsion has had many causes. But the big one is this: Republican political tacticians decided to mobilize their coalition with a form of social class warfare. Democrats kept nominating coastal pointy-heads like Michael Dukakis so Republicans attacked coastal pointy-heads.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/10/opinion/10brooks.html?_r=2&oref=slogin

[Stargazer09]

4. They are afraid of change

They don't remember how comfortable they were under Clinton, and they blindly trust their great GOP leaders to protect them from terrorists and foreclosure alike.

Never mind the facts.

Obama truly represents change, and the rabid (vapid) followers of McCain/Palin don't want change. They want the status quo, regardless of how bad that is for them.

[madmom]

5. In our local rag there was a LTTE saying "people don't like change so Obama is bad" it was at least

good for a chuckle before it made me roaring mad!

[ixion]

3. Yet another "unintended" consequence of the so-called 'war' on Terror

the psychotic whackos on the right have had a permanent hard-on ever since the beginning of the abomination to liberty that is the so-called 'war' on the abstract concept of 'terror'. These morons, normally confined to their crucifix-lined bunkers, were thrust into the mainstream, and enabled by the * cabal to thrust the f*k'd up world view down our throats. Now, when it looks like they may have to return to rolling on the floor and speaking in tongues in their bunkers, they're having a hissy fit.

This temper tantrum could very well cause a new civil war to break out in the states, were these neo-barbarians suddenly inclined to take up arms against 'liberals'. You think I'm exaggerating? I've been watching this hostility build since the 80's, when Fatboy began unleashing his hate speech on the world. Emboldened by the * cabal, these folks are now frothing at the mouth for the blood of their fellow Americans, whom they call their "enemy".