Isn’t this what everyone is thinking? McCain has already slaughtered whatever “honor” he had. Palin never had any. What if Obama was assassinated? What if it doesn’t stop at “Kill him!” or “Terrorist!” or monkey dolls waved at TV cameras? What if it doesn’t stop at ridiculous, ignorant redneck support of two people (and a whole party) just because the other guy isn’t white? What if a woman loses her husband and two little girls lose their dad because McCain and his thugs lit a match to the tank of gas that is Republican racist hate?
I don’t think asking this question is playing the race card. I think this is a reasonable question to ask in a world filled with wackos who cling more tightly to their right to own firearms than their right to health or education or prosperity. I think this is a question that McCain should sit down at one of his kitchen tables and ask himself, before it’s too late and he has the blood of a very well-loved and very symbolic man on his hands.
And if you have time for some deeper reading (can the New Yorker run anything under 100 pages? jeez.), George Packer has another very interesting and well-written article about voters in Ohio.
