This brings to mind what Walter Cronkite, the "most trusted man in America" during my lifetime who broke the news of Vietnam´s loss and man on the moon, said after the 2004 reelection of Bush: voters no longer have the critical reasoning capacity to choose wisely between an overqualified candidate and a transparent nitwit. Without this, no democracy can survive.

But it is much worse. There is in the character of the very same middle Americans who claim to be such "Good Christians" a fatal flaw where hearing the worst about someone takes precedence over ANY notion of good citizenship, or even self survival. To ask how working Americans could vote so diametrically opposite of their economic interests, you only need to look at the poll last year where half of the population through they were wealthy. This level of cluelessness is a level of stupidity that goes beyond putting our democracy at risk, it actually guarantees our failure.

So when the most common saying can be spun into a smear by the candidate who has tried mightily to stay above board, and whose supporters are pleading for him to go low into the gutter to even have a chance, there you have the last gasp of a great country whose own forced stupidity did it in.

Would that it were not. Greed alone assures it thus.

Join me in shaming the disgusting fat redneck pigs who have held this country back behind every other industrial nation in civilization. Now we read that they are probably going to decide again in states like Pennsylvania, Ohio and everywhere else the 700 pound hick redneck waddles. What is missing is any SHAMING of these porkers as they deserve for what they have done to a great country. Filthy fat racists need to be SHAMED at every opportunity so they know just how despicable they are, since now they tune into Faux News or AM radio and are told they are the ones with common sense! For shame, you filthy disgusting morbidly obese REDNECKS! Take your shriveled Bush and crawl back into your huge holes.

At least half of Americans are lazy, morbidly obese ignoramuses who can't wait to hear the worst about anyone, then spread it without regard to the truth. They pose as good Christians but are anything but. I was raised by these willfully-ignorant rednecks and fled at the earliest opportunity, but before long they came waddling along on the AM radio dial, spurred by GOP tricksters to take over and wreck the country. There is no force more at odds with civilization than the American redneck. They resent having to pay any taxes, and of course taxes are the price you pay for civilization.

Gingrich is only a symptom of the astounding stupidity of today's American, which has caused the world to write us off completely. In fact, the all-time "most trusted man in America," Walter Cronkite, declared our democracy dead after the 04 election due to the complete absence of critical reasoning capacity by the America voter, who voted for a nitwit they might like to have a beer with over the most overqualified candidate in history.

I watched this transpire with the rise of AM talk radio, where suddenly the willfully-ignorant rednecks I grew up with were carried on the airwaves and infected every region of the country with vile, know-nothing reactionary stupidity. Prodded by demonic rightist trickster hosts, this radio cohort grew over 15 years until the Annenberg School study found that 50 million talk radio listeners were duped with utter "false certainty" on every issue, swinging five of the past 6 elections. Suddenly the willful ignorance was being enforced by "radio jackboots" as RFKJr. calls them, bullying us into their war and total ruin.

As I watch these filthy rightist destroyers gear up to work their smears and ruin upon us again in this next election, I find that what is most notably missing is SHAMING them. In fact, in any other country in the world, they would be viciously shamed at every opportunity for what they have done to their nation. Instead, the few leftist milquetoasts who call into their 98% far right radio empire (in every major city and small town without exception) seem almost afraid to hint that these monsters have destroyed a country. And the witless Dem Congress didn't even make a feeble effort to pressure ownership to bring balance back to the airwaves, giving them further license.

Like the rest of the world, I have pretty much given up on my country. It is now up to a new generation and bloggers like Glenn to make one last effort to save us with a tidal wave that flushes the sewer.