the author of Whistling Past Dixie

would have picked up the story of the Supremes allowing people in Ohio to vote.

I hear her nibs is going on Saturday Night Live this weekend. This ought to be interesting.

Isn't it her own beloved Alaska that has the strongest secessionist group this side of Quebec?

In Palin's "worldview" you're either pro-McCain Palin or anti-American. They will be shocked to learn on November 4th just how much of the nation is both patriotic and for Obama-Biden. Let the awakening begin!

Here is what part of America isn't Pro-America: where ever Palin is standing at the moment. She obviously has zero understanding of the Constitution. She obviously does not understand that no one with a brain follows any leader blindly.

Plenty of us have things we want to say to (hopefully) President Obama. We are just keeping our mouths shut until he is elected. We want to make the country BETTER because we are pro-America, not a bunch of lemmings who follow the flag waving fools into war without reason.

We are pro America. We love our country. We just don't suffer fools well.

on a walking tour of anti-America, pinko-liberal Boston (yes, I'm a Masshole) and just point out all those sites that made America, well, America.

Palin, you got Main Street Wasilla? I'll take Bunker Hill, the Old North Church, Old Ironsides, and the oldest democratic constitution in the world (MA state constitution).

And just so you know that Northeast liberals are still fighting for "pro-American" ideals like equality before the law, we can go to city hall and watch a same sex marriage.

THAT'S America.

Assuming the definition of "pro-America" hinges on what the majority of citizens (or voters) WANT for America -- and I think that's a reasonable definition -- I suspect McCain/Palin and their supporters are in for quite a shock after the dust settles on the morning of Nov. 5.

They're going to be upset, to put it mildly, with the realization that THEY are out of step with the majority of this country, and not the other way around. Mighty, MIGHTY upset.

These people really don't have any other cards to play, do they? My God, they have so little to offer about the economy, healthcare or foreign policy that they're back to the Rovian "liberals hate America" nonsense.

Well, how's this for a counter-meme: "conservatives hate freedom." That's right, you, Ms. Palin. You and your ilk hate freedom to control reproductive rights, freedom to marry, and freedom to vote without being threatened with disenfranchisement, among others. In association with your pal W., you hate the Constitution, civil liberties, dissent, and the middle class. And apparently, as indicated by their attendance at your rallies, you hate blacks, Muslims, Arabs and anyone who isn't screaming "USA! USA!"

Nobody's buying what you're selling anymore, Neocons. Enjoy your 50 years of upcoming obscurity. When I'm a little old man, maybe you'll get some power back.

Just ask the AIP!

Talking about slim pickins in the singer realm after the conservatives sing for you. Doh!

If being patriotic is to allow the government to screw around, no question asked, I am unpatriotic.

Oscar Wilde said "patriotism is the virtue of the vicious". You can rape, kill and torture innocents as long as you love America.

Glad I live in NC! What about Alaska? Since they (the Palins) want to split, I guess they are anti-American, right?

I really badly want to see Palin confronted by, as others have said, a true pro-American. She has special memorized lines for every little thing that could possibly happen inside her magic bubble of red-state think.

Can someone please pop the bubble? What happened to the kids at pizza places throwing her off talking points on Pakistan with a simple question? Someone has to be able to ask her a question beside Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh before the election. Can someone get on that, please?

I'm sure Lee Greenwood and Hank Williams, Jr. were gratified to find out that Palin considers them among the "slim pickins" of conservative singers they could get to come out and support her. The implication, of course, was that it they could get some better singers/celebrities to her rallies they would, but unfortunately they had to settle for what they could get.

Too bad for Sarah there's not more ignorant and jingoistic celebrities out there willing to sing her songs of praise. Too bad, so sad. Now go back to Alaska and leave America alone.

With regard to which states are sufficiently patriotic to be "pro-America," the answer is obvious. There are pro-America states that are supporting McCain-Palin, and then there are blue states that hate America and want to hand the reins of power over to a ferrin-born, tarrarrist-huggin', islamofascist with a funny-soundin' name and big ol' ears! When you see the world in stark contract of black and white, it is easy to classify anyone as anti-American when they don't agree with you.

It's been a long-noted phenomenon that right wingers have their own reality -- their own set of facts, their own set of opinions based on those facts. For that reason, they can say that Saddam was responsible for 9/11, WMDs were found in Iraq, the surge accomplished its objectives, Bush is not the worst president in the US since Reconstruction, and anyone who disagrees with these opinions is an anti-American commie.

As we are seeing, these opinions are not founded in a widely-shared reality. Still, these wingers cling to that reality like a life raft. The more it gets challenged, the more tenaciously they cling.

What I wonder is, what will happen when the crumbling of movement conservatism and all of Bush's disastrous policies is reflected in facts they cannot ignore? What will happen when a commanding majority of Americans choose Obama as their president? How will that square with the notion that Obama supporters are anti-American commies?

My guess is, we're going to see a lot of unhinged behavior when all this comes down, and that some of them will turn to violence. The notion that America has become anti-American is apt to enable all kind of demented acts.