As Taibbi points out: "This current race for the presidential nomination has therefore devolved into a kind of Freudian Agatha Christie story, in which the disturbed and highly paranoid voter base by turns tests the orthodoxy of each candidate, trying to figure out which one is the spy, which one is really Barack Obama bin Laden-Marx under the candidate mask!"

"[I't's gotten so ridiculous that even Santorum, as paranoid and hysterical a finger-pointing politician as this country has ever seen, a man who once insisted with a straight face that there is no such thing as a liberal Christian – he's now being put through the Electric Conservative Paranoia Acid Test, and failing!"

Noting that Ron Paul, the joker at the table, described Santorum with the line "He is a fake," Taibbi observes, "These candidates are behaving like Stalinist officials in the late thirties, each one afraid to be the first to stop applauding."

And finally:

"These people have run out of others to blame, run out of bystanders to suspect, run out of decent family people to dismiss as Godless, sex-crazed perverts. They're turning the gun on themselves now. It might be justice, or it might just be sad. Whatever it is, it's remarkable to watch."

Indeed.

Well said!

"He lives in his head."

Ex-asolutely-actly.

I see Ron Paul hearing, reading, seeing something that doesn't quite dovetail with his fun-house mirrors perspective and mumbling, "Well, no, that can't be" and the reordering the ethereal props on the stage in his mind he perceives as reality.

I'm too out of it, too fat, too lazy, far too ignorant, and way too stupid to say anything about whatever whoever wrote whatever this thread is linked to for me to offer anything even remotely like an intelligent response.

So - fucked seven ways from Sunday, as usual - I'm sending this, instead.

#10 | Posted by vernon, LLC, Tennessee

still locked into some idealized America from 1956...
#11 | Posted by vernon

Which, of course, is one of the major points in the article Vermin was too out of it, too fat, too lazy, far too ignorant, and way too stupid to actually read and comment upon.

Irony, thy waters run much too broad and far too swift for the likes of Vermin to keep his pointed little head above the tide.

Quack Sarvis takes too many liberties posting on his own post.
#16 | Posted by dean_vulva

When you start your own blog - which will no doubt be an incredibly lonely place - then you can start making the rules. Until then, you'll have to made do with Mr. Cadenhead's playground.

"that continued into June of 2008 and resulted in the worst POTUS in the history of our country."

Obviously you thinking of either 2000 or 2004, because one of the favored contenders for "Worst President, Ever" left office in January 2009.

Amnesia, much?