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that conservatism in its post-Goldwater incarnation has become a pronounced form of mental illness. I mean the comments Joe Conason cites are so beyond the pale as to defy a response.
The sad irony here is that Joe Conason sounds dangerously like these rightwing cooks when he writes about Ralph Nader. Seriously how are people still frothing at the mouth accusing Nader of being 'egomaniacal' or asserting that he is personally responsible for the Iraq War any different?