Your New Conservative Movement: Gloves come off, so do the Hoods

From Dana Milbank in the Washington Post:

Worse, Palin's routine attacks on the media have begun to spill into ugliness. In Clearwater, arriving reporters were greeted with shouts and taunts by the crowd of about 3,000. Palin then went on to blame Katie Couric's questions for her "less-than-successful interview with kinda mainstream media." At that, Palin supporters turned on reporters in the press area, waving thunder sticks and shouting abuse. Others hurled obscenities at a camera crew. One Palin supporter shouted a racial epithet at an African American sound man for a network and told him, "Sit down, boy."

That’s right, it’s the fault of uppity blacks that Palin can’t give a coherent answer about her lack of foreign policy experience, can’t give a coherent answer to a question about which newspapers she reads, can’t name a single Supreme Court decision, etc. Uppity black sound engineers.

Far be it from me to suggest if you vote GOP you are throwing your lot in with a pack of morally retarded racists and hooligans who have had pretty much entrenched power for eight years, managing to destroy the economy, and our foreign policy in the process. No, I understand there are 'grownups' somewhere in the GOP party, folks like...ex-Senator Phil Gramm who made sure that institutions of higher finance were sufficiently deregulated to lead to the inexorable implosion of our market system. Or, say, folks like Donald Rumsfeld who boldly lied for the good of the country and said he knew exactly where those weapons of mass destruction were in Iraq. Indeed, even moderates like Colin Powell helped out with those fibs.

So no. The GOP isn't all just mindless racism and seething morons riled up by an even dimmer bulb who likes to think of herself as a pitbull with lipstick. It also consists of honorable men like John McCain who promised not to run such a campaign until he started flaying in the polls and coming off like the cranky old fart he is. And, of course, clever and suspense filled math wizards like Karl Rove who ingeniously promised to turn McCain's campaign around by picking the single stupidest hockey mom on earth to energize it.

Yes, that is your modern conservative movement, as diverse a group of ideological simpletons and liars as you would ever want to put in charge of your country. The spittle flecked crowd roused to their feet, crying as one did, vis a vis Obama, "kill him"? ... oh, that's just added value.