Panic attacks: Voters unload at GOP rallies

[southern_belle]

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.

More at http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14445.html

These people seemed seriously unhinged. IMO, McCain and Palin have sold their souls to the devil. They'd rather sell their soul than lose an election. :cry:

edited to correct spelling.

[YOY]

1. 'Soul' not 'sole'

Otherwise very awesome contribution.

[southern_belle]

3. Thank you.

I knew that didn't look right (I'm still drinking my first cup of coffee). I'll fix it now. :blush:

[Demeter]

2. They Were ALWAYS Seriously Unhinged

Now they are "decompensating"--they cannot disguise the insanity with a veneer of civility or a few deciet-filled platitudes any longer. The jig is up!

[leveymg]

4. GOP "precipice of panic"

[BurtWorm]

5. Plants unload.

It was a show for the media. Don't buy it.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. These insane morons are going to be dangerous on November 5th.

I remember what it was like after 9/11. There were so many aggressive drivers out on the roads it was scary. I'm thinking of taking the day off after the election.

[Fluffdaddy]

7. that's the GOP base for ya

[mscuedawg]

8. Terrorism....alive and well in the US of A and it has NOTHING to do with Barack Obama

[symbolman]

9. They might as well be telling their Refridgerators to JUMP

than to tell McCOWARD to DO anything about it other than to make scurrilous remarks that have no basis in either Fact or Reality.

McMaverick needs to be put out to pasture. Take a nap old man, and quit screaming FIRE in a Movie House, it's Illegal.

If Congress had it's shit together, the Dems would DEMAND that McCain be CENSURED in the Senate, and then BLAME any of the Repigs that don't go along for all the HATE that's swirling around, and for anything unspeakable that may happen DUE TO IT.

Make THEM OWN IT.

Censure McCAIN, there has to be rules that state that One Sitting Senator CANNOT Call another Sitting Senator someone that associates with KNOWN DOMESTIC TERRORISTS.

Ethics? Naw..

[hatrack]

10. “'Sometimes people just do what they want,” explained the aide."

Do you suppose they'll use the same non-excuse excuse when people are beaten up, or killed, or run off the road for having the "wrong" bumper sticker on their car?

Tidy fearful little fascists, aren't they?

[RoadRage]

11. I'm insulted..

that after all of the crap they've pulled over the past 8 years, that they would think for 1 second that they had a shot this time.

Seriously - you've fucked up beyond the point of EPIC FAIL.. but you're upset that we've smartened up this time around.. and you're to damn stupid to do so yourselves?

[AllentownJake]

13. Its the 25-30% that think Bush is doing a great job

They are not rational people.

[blue-kite]

12. I have no problem with 'sold their sole'... I mean we all need fish for a healthy diet n/t

[Ilsa]

14. I have a message from a friend who said:

Obama should tell every rally what FDR said of the Republican "economic royalists" of the 1930s -- "I welcome their hate."

My buddy reads DU all the time but doesn't post. He sent me this thread and his response early this morning before I got online.