Man, these local GOP groups are really bringing their A-game this cycle, aren't they? From the Sacramento klan who put out the Obama-with-fried-chicken food stamp to this idiot, they are showing us a truer face of the party than any ad. Bravo. Keep it up. Alienate 70% of the population so your party is an afterthought until I'm a great grandpa. Please.

...what's the deal with Republican women lately who, given the chance to soften their staggeringly asinine statements, instead dig their graves? First Bachmann, now this vapid bigot. I hope she's not planning to run for office anywhere outside 25-point McCain lead country.

Not to be a detail turd, but I believe Mother Abagail was 108, not 118.

I loved the Stand, too, but "Salem's Lot" remains my favorite. Scariest vampire novel ever written, and gave me nightmares for weeks after I went to the local supermarket for days on end to read it, chapter by chapter, for free in the paperback aisle. Hey, I was 12 and didn't have much cash. Sorry to bogart your royalty, Steve.

King's taken a lot of heat over the years for recycling ideas and for a predictable style, both of which sometimes are valid, but when he's on, he's really on. The Stand, Salem's Lot, Different Seasons, The Dead Zone, Misery...all classics.

"...rest them assured over"???

This woman makes Shrub sound like Sir Laurence Olivier.

Oh, you mean moonbat schemes like investing in infrastructure, reforming education, ensuring that people have health coverage so an illness doesn't bankrupt them, investing in a huge green energy economy, and helping people get childcare so they can actually go to work? Yeah, why would we want to do crazy shit like that when we can give more tax breaks to ExxonMobil and start a few wars?

Brilliant.

Now that's what I'm talking about. About time the Dems got some swagger after 8 years of sucking Bush/Cheney's choad. I think it's time to start GOP bashing, mocking and kicking the crap out of this cancerous, rotting party in every state until it retreats into a tiny hole and remakes itself free of the evangelicals and every other bigoted, ignorant "real American" that's turned the party of Lincoln into a national joke.

Then we can start ejecting the craven, status-quo-loving Dems from Congress and bringing up real progressives from state and local ranks and bring some genuine change to this cracked, chipped country.

This just warms my heart. I actually have hope that Americans are waking up to the true emptiness and ugliness of the GOP in the last 14 years Newt.

Obama 375!

Senate Dems 60!

Tampa Bay in 6!

It's a good day to be a...well, a citizen of a country whose economy, infrastructure and social welfare systems are rotting, but even so...

...the Pope is the Antichrist? I thought Barack Obama was the Antichrist! Will these yahoos please get their demonization straight?

Why does anyone with a working cortex (which obviously doesn't include Todd, Michelle Bachmann or the idiot who distributed the Obama food stamps) pay any attention to what this emaciated cross-dresser spews from her prominent Adam's apple?

Why?

It's not just that they wealthy GOP supporters aren't the Joes; it's that they DESPISE the Joes. They see the blue-collar class as undereducated, slack-jawed idiots to be manipulated by divisive, pandering, fear-based and racist attacks. Then as soon as they get their vote, the wealth go right back to anally raping them by sending their jobs overseas and denying them healthcare.

That's why this election is so refreshing. The Joes are proving to be a lot smarter than the Gordon Geckos of the world thought, and they're not buying the insulting, shallow bullshit. Bout time.

Is this the October Surprise? Is this the uncovered smoking gun that unmasks Obama the Marxist? Wow. Color me underwhelmed. If this lightweight stuff is all the Right has left, they'd better prepare for a long, dark night of political irrelevance.

It would be the bestest gift the Democrats could ever receive to have the Repugnant Party be blind and deaf enough to nominate this crass, incurious, power-abusive, shrill little nobody for president in 2012. Never mind that most women already despise her and that she'd have four years to learn about what the VP really does in the Senate (hint, Sarah: if there's no tie, not a damned thing). The entire electorate has already seen her for what she is: an evangelical goon who believes in a young earth, abolishing abortion rights, denying and reality she doesn't like, and substituting cutest mannerisms for actual policy knowledge.

In short, she's perfect for the "Left Behind" wing of the GOP, the spectacularly ignorant and bigoted ones who still cling to desperate stereotypes and fear of "The Other" to make themselves feel better about their f'd up lives. That's her constituency, none other. She's welcome to them, because if they can't see clearly after 8 years of Dubya, the best we can hope for is that they die out without reproducing.

Perhaps Sarah can run for President in the alternate "real America" she's so fond of, and they can have their Jim Crow laws and back alley abortions and 20% unemployment and creationism in the schools while the rest of us creep toward the future. The only thing I suggest is that we create a new discipline to study the archaic, fossilized ideas of this bizarre woman and those who support her: Palintology.

I'm going to defy the voodoo and dare the gods to f--k with things: Obama has got it in a landslide. The Republicans are not all-powerful; there's no cabal scheming to co-opt 10 million votes. It's all over but the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

That said, well done, Gary. Best thing you've ever written, wrathful but rational. Bravo.