Are You Going to Get Better or is This It?

Ouch. George Will really rips into McCain hard. It must be hard for an honest, intelligent Republican to see his party completely destroyed by the crazies, but what can I say? The crazies were always there. I couldn't be the only one who noticed. McCain's deplorable behavior is nothing new if you remember Limbaugh, Falwell or Robertson. It's just another day at the races for these losers.

Still, this was good to see, especially for all of us who wish to see this extremist element banished from American politics. We need to make the case that rejecting this violent fundamentalism is crucial for all Americans. This problem will not go away with the coming Obama landslide; it will gurgle and boil in the shadows, fueling a new generation of hatred and fear.

This, McCain and his female Sancho Panza say, is demonstrated by bad associations Obama had in Chicago, such as with William Ayers, the unrepentant terrorist. But the McCain-Palin charges have come just as the Obama campaign is benefiting from a mass mailing it is not paying for. Many millions of American households are gingerly opening envelopes containing reports of the third-quarter losses in their 401(k) and other retirement accounts -- telling each household its portion of the nearly $2 trillion that Americans' accounts have recently shed. In this context, the McCain-Palin campaign's attempt to get Americans to focus on Obama's Chicago associations seems surreal -- or, as a British politician once said about criticism he was receiving, "like being savaged by a dead sheep."