FWIW, it's Walter Mitty, though, not "Walter Middy."
I think this comment is particularly noteworthy ...
Laying the groundwork for a loss
I sat through the entire Matthews interview of Congresswoman Bachmann last night. At first I thought he was letting her recite far too many of her McCain campaign talking points without challenging her. But, as the interview progressed and Chris did not interrupt her, as is his annoying habit, the congresswoman slowly revealed the true intent and purpose of the McCain campaign's last remaining strategy.
Boiled down to its essence, Bachmann's Ayers/Wright/Acorn/Alinski guilt by association message is the same old divide-and-conquer, fear-mongering, race-baiting stuff we've all witnessed in the past. It's simply more of Bush's "you're either with us or against us" threats, the '60s Nixonian taunts of "America...love it or leave it", or Joe McCarthy's "are you now, or have you ever been, a member of...". Only, this time, it seems much more deadly.
The tone has grown so increasingly bitter and violent in recent weeks, I suspect McCain and Palin are just preparing their followers for the inevitable electoral loss they will suffer. By planting the toxic idea that the eventual winner is undeserving, dangerous and un-American, they are laying the groundwork for the over-the-top attacks that will surely follow. It will make the Scaiffe-funded Arkansas Project and the Independent Prosecutor's inquisitions of the Clinton years pale in comparison. If Obama wins he will certainly face the most radicalized opposition imagineable.
Submitted by sergio on October 18, 2008 - 2:33pm.
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