If you haven't yet read the TPM frontpage items in the left-hand column titled "McCain's Legions" and "A Doozy" and watched the videos they headline, you will be stunned by the time you have.

Here it is 3:45 in the morning and I have just now finished watching the Republican Party complete its transformation into the Nazi Party of the United States. I despair for our nation.

When did it become acceptable for a leader in a major American political party to light an unquenchable wildfire of hatred in the hearts of followers? Apparently about the time that John McCain became the presumptive nominee for the Republicans.

I would seethe with anger at the profoundly heavy wedge that McCain, Palin and their party are driving into the soul of this country, but that emotion has been usurped completely now and is the sole province of the Right.


What folly the GOP has embarked upon! What disregard for the fundamental basis of our democracy: the deliberate, elective process that leads to the peaceful surrender of one authority and the peaceful succession of another all at the same moment. This, the most defining achievement of American political philosophy, is now the prey of wolves who have cast off their sheep's clothing and now salivate and gnash their teeth openly in their hunger for power.

I will not repeat here the vile epithets of the McCain crowd, for there is no need. You will hear them repeated soon enough. The fire will not be doused easily.

My country is as divided as surely as the North and the South came to blows 150 years ago. Yet this is no divide along some neat Mason-Dixon line. This is a crazy quilt of prejudice knit only of partisanship and stitched together feverishly by the top leaders and sleazy apprratchiks of the Republican Party. And it is terrifying to behold.

God save Barack Obama from my countrymen. God save my countrymen from themselves.