Wow.....just read this piece by Pal Waldman and couldn't help but cheering through the entire read, loving such tidbits as:
There are crazy, stupid Democrats, and crazy, stupid Republicans. Heck, you probably know some of them, like that weird uncle of yours who lectures everyone at Thanksgiving about international conspiracies to control our minds through water fluoridation and says bigoted things that make everyone cringe. But among the many profound differences between today's Republican and Democratic parties is this: Only one party takes your embarrassing nut-ball of an uncle and says, "This man should be making our laws."
And he is spot on. Yes, there are crazy Democrats, I know a few personally, however it is rare to find the party endorsing or electing these extreme, crazy folks to office. Even rarer to find any level of support from the party or groups within the party that help these folks win primaries.
This is a new level of crazy, brought to us by the TeaBaggers of America, folks so extreme, so crazy that they are out of touch with not just main stream America, they have lost touch with reality.
One more quote from the article:
Before conservatives say, "What about Bill Maher,?!?" we can acknowledge that there are indeed prominent liberals who say mean things about Republicans. But if you want to find Democrats with views as insane and outright idiotic as Akin's, you'd have to go deep into the comments on a liberal blog to locate some anonymous nobodies.
The worst part about this craziness is that Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan are actively seeking their support.
We can have reason with Obama or the crazy with Romney, that is really what we are faced with in this election.