Sen. McCain has taken to calling Sen. Obama a “socialist”.

Ike didn’t call Adalai Stephenson that, and Ike was around when “Tailgunner Joe” McCarthy was waving around his list of communists in the State Department.

Dick Nixon, who was on the House Un-American Activities Committee and prosecuted/persecuted Hollywood leftists never called George McGovern a socialist.

Nor did Nixon accuse McGovern of “palling around with terrorists”, even though that was the time that Bill Ayers and his wife were actually exploding bombs and the South Dakota senator was presumably in league with every dirty hippy and weed smoker in the country (me included).

Back when Ronald Reagan was head of the actor’s union, he testified before Nixon’s committee and accused a bunch of “blacklisted” writers and directors of being members of the communist party. But Reagan used no such language to describe President Carter or Walter Mondale.

I started this year believing that John Sidney McCain, the senator from Arizona, was an honorable man. I now believe that he has run the most foul campaign of my lifetime. I can no longer see him as honorable.

Today, Republican House leader John Boehner said Sen. Obama’s “present” votes in the Illinois Senate were “chickenshit.” Whatever one may think of those 130 votes, is this the kind of language we think permissable by public figures during a political campaign? Our sitting vice president told a sitting U.S. senator to “go fuck yourself”.

And the GOP pretends to be the party of “family values”.

The POLITE conservatives on the internet think nothing of calling the Democratic nominee a “baby killer.” Is this what passes for political disagreement these days?

I hope all those warmongering fascists poured out of colostomy bags are ashamed of themselves.

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