bloggerinterrupted went to a Sarah Palin rally in Ohio and talked to McCain-Palin supporters afterwards. The interviews were scary - which is why McCain prevents reporters from talking to them.

Lots of McCain-Palin supporters firmly believe Obama is a terrorist. Why? Obviously there are no reasons. They believe he's a terrorist simply because they want to believe it.

That's how conservatives "think." They want to believe poor people caused the financial meltdown, so they simply believe it - facts or no facts. They want to believe leaving Iraq would be surrendering to terrorists, so they simply believe it. They want to believe the earth isn't warming, so they simply believe it. And when presented with contrary facts, they simply deny those facts.

Obviously it's impossible to reason with people who reject reason itself. The only solution is to put the Republican Party out of business on November 4 by voting a straight Democratic ticket.

Update 1: Many bloggers are pointing out how short a step it is from hatred to violence. We saw it in July when a conservative opened fire on a "liberal" church in Tennessee. We saw it in September with a chemical attack on Muslim children in Dayton following the mass-mailing of the anti-Muslim "Obsession" video.

If John McCain had any character at all and really put Country First, he'd denounce the hatemongering around his campaign. But McCain sold his soul to Karl Rove after losing the 2000 election to George Bush, and Rove will never give it back.

Update 2: Commandante Markos wants to break their back, crush their spirits:

The day after the election, I want to see an electoral battlefield littered with defeated Republicans, their ranks demoralized, their treasury in heavy debt, and no real leadership to take the helm. I want a vacuum so complete, that a bloody leadership battle between the neocons, theocons, and corporate cons shakes the GOP to its core, and leaves it fractured and ill-equipped to stymie the progressive agenda, much less ramp up for an even bleaker (for them) 2010.