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Saturday, November 1, 2008 12:00 AM

A scary Halloween with Sarah Palin

In central Pennsylvania, the Republican base is afraid of Obama, and lost in fever dreams of a neo-Soviet nightmare. But it's all in God's hands.

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  • Saturday, November 1, 2008 12:47 PM

    People are sick because they LIKE fear.

    Look at the number of people who go to those disgusting Saw films. The ones who cheer on Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees as they kill teenagers - like Jews cheering on the SS as they approach with ravenous dogs and tickets to the gas chamber.

    I was fortunate enough to have been abused in a robbery, the psychological equivalent of rape. I am almost alone in that I do NOT like to be scared, terrified and abused. I'm freaking weird, compared to you "normal" people.

    You love your pulse to pound, you love being on the edge of your seat. That's what drives Republicans to be terrified into a lynch mob, ready to kill blacks, gays, Hispanics, whatever the officially-declared enemy of the Leader may be. That is also what makes Democrats tremble in fear that Obama will lose, and they'll all be sent into camps to die. That fear paralyzes them, and that paralysis and hopelessness is what Democrats enjoy; they may not like going to Palin's Auschwicz, but they seem to be enjoying the cattle-car ride there.

    But me...my PTSD supposedly makes me weak and inferior to you. Riiiiiight.

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