One wonders at this point how the various agencies charged with the responsibility of protecting the presidential candidates from violence will respond to this latest tactic from the McCain campaign.
If anything lost the debate for McCain it was the repetition of these three key phrases, each of which gave the the impression that he was an insecure politician rather than a confident leader.
Even if 'fascist' is not a very accurate description of Sarah Palin -- neither sociologically nor historically -- public concern in response to her campaign events is a social fact well worth noting.
By teaching his volunteers to see Barack Obama as similar to bin Laden, McCain is using his campaign to tie Obama to the mass murders of September 11, 2001.
Nowadays, when Americans think about profligate spending, they do not think about Democrats. Instead, when voters talk about grossly excessive government spending, they talk about Bush.
Has the entire political wing of Republicanism officially collapsed into cries of 'anti-Americanism' like some endless robocall recording of O'Reilly-Coulter-Hannity-Gingrich's greatest hits?
A mugging punctuated by an odd act of violence has been transformed at the hands of a right-wing media figure to appear like a targeted act of violence against the McCain campaign.
Suddenly, McCain's campaign has convinced a small minority of his followers that the supposed liberal-communist revolution talked about in right-wing media is suddenly on the verge of victory.
As disturbing as it is to see McCain supporters in Pennsylvania shout violent epithets about Obama, the sad reality is that videos shot at McCain rallies have become the key political symbols of this race.
What was billed as Obama's 'ad' or 'infomercial,' was in fact a short documentary about the struggle to achieve the American dream. It was brilliant political theater.