The Republican Party has spent the last few days in an awkward spiral of jingoism, as evidenced by a slew of controversial statements. Let’s review the events of the last few days:

Friday, 10/17:

Representative Michele Bachman (R-Minnesota) states that she is “very concerned that [Barack Obama] may have anti-American views”

Saturday, 10/18

Representative Robin Hayes (R- North Carolina) tells a crowd that “liberals hate real Americans that …believe in God.”

Sunday, 10/19

Sarah Palin levies a new line of attack against Barack Obama by implying that an Obama Presidency would be an “experiment with socialism”.

Tuesday, 10/21:

Sarah Palin is forced to apologize for earlier suggestions that some areas of the United States are “Pro-America”; and that, by association, other areas of the country are less patriotic.

My fellow Americans, this is NOT an isolated series of unrelated Gaffs. These gaffes are the embarrassing side-effect of the Republican Party’s mindset; that it can successfully use the tactics of Joseph McCarthy, a politician who gained power by publicly targeting individuals and groups as Anti-American, Communists, and Atheists.

Yes, these statements are evidence that the Republican Party is returning to the values of McCarthyism to help them win this election. They do, in fact, want to paint Barack Obama as a communist, but they can’t because they wouldn’t be taken seriously.

Instead, the Republican Party is exploiting politically convenient semantics; “socialism” is closely enough associated with “communism” to concern Americans.

What the Republican Party has risked by playing by Joseph McCarthy’s rules is the possibility of redefining the concept of the “Red Scare”.

According to The New York Times, a recent Republican fund raising reception managed to suck more than a million dollars out of the hands of hundreds of Hillary Clinton’s fair-weather supporters, some of whom traitorously contributed more than twenty five thousand dollars of their blood money to John McCain.

This disgusting display of misplaced activism is evident that there continues to be a serious problem with self-professed Hillary Clinton “supporters” naively backstabbing her and her feminist values in order to support Sarah Palin.

In flocking to Sarah Palin, they seem unable to imagine what rights women would have achieved had the womens’ suffrage movement had been led by a beauty pageant contestant instead of Susan B. Anthony.

They also seem unable to see see how this same standard applies to modern feminism. They are convinced that a woman whom John McCain chose as his running mate solely for her beauty is more qualified to carry the Feminist Torch than women who have dedicated their entire lives to advancing women’s rights.

Many of these women chose to betray Hillary Clinton because Barack Obama, the candidate she has endorsed and who most closely supports her legacy, defeated her in the Democratic Primary race.

In a spiteful and naive attempt to hurt Barack Obama, these women are putting their energy and resources behind a candidate with a legacy of regressing, not advancing, womens’ rights.

If women take offense to their gender being the butt of jokes, then I am saddened that the profound irony of their stupidity is lost on these women.

By now, most Americans have heard the vicious rumors that Barack Obama is a Muslim, Arab, and/or Terrorist. Unfortunately, most Americans are unaware Andy Martin, a psychologically unhinged conservative blogger is responsible for these rumors.  Thankfully, the New York Times has exposed him.

Andy Martin was denied admission to the Illinois Bar because of concerns about his sanity. The findings of the Psychological Examination conducted on behalf of the Illinois Bar was that Mr. Martin has:

“a severe character defect manifested by well-documented ideation with a paranoid flavor and a grandiose character.”

Mr. Martin’s colorful legacy includes Quixotic gems such as:

- Filing so many frivolous lawsuits that he was barred from filing law suits in Federal Court without preliminary approval

-Listing “Exterminate Jew Power” among his purposes for running for a Connecticut Senate Seat.

- Suing the chairman of the Florida Republican Party for refusing to support him in his campaign for a Florida Senate seat.

While it may seem bizarre that a lunatic like Mr. Martin has been afforded so much credibility, the reality is a bit more tangible when you consider the role the Conservative Media has had in promoting him.

In 2004, the conservative website FreeRepublic.com published one of Mr. Martin’s press releases in which he suggested that  “Obama is a Muslim who has concealed his religion”. For the last 4 years, the freepers (avid contributers to freerepublic) have fervidly spread and exaggerated these claims.

Just last week, conservative news channel Fox News allowed Mr. Martin to assert that Mr. Obama had once trained to overthrow the government.

Nobody challenged him on this point. But when questions were raised about Mr. Martin’s appearance on Fox News, a Fox News executive defending by saying that “Mr. Martin was clearly expressing his opinion and not necessarily fact”

A Quick Tact Quiz for My Readers:

Question: You are a prominent politicians hosting a political rally. While talking about your opponent, your supporters yell “TERRORIST!”, “TRAITOR”, and “KILL HIM!”. Which of the following choices is the right course of action:

A) Calmly ask your supporters to refrain from such inappropriate language
B) Have security remove and detain the supporter who threatened the life of your opponent
c) Accuse your opponent of supporting and attacking your supporters.

If your answer was C, then you might be affiliated with the McCain Campaign.

Yes, the John McCain campaign issued the below statement in response to Barack Obama’s offense at being jeered as a terrorist and traitor (and having his life threatened).

“Barack Obama’s assault on our supporters is insulting and unsurprising….It is clear that Barack Obama just doesn’t understand regular people and the issues they care about.”

It’s inaccurate to say that John McCain took the low road in refusing to defend his opponent against hate speech and death threats. There isn’t a road low enough to describe John McCain’s attacks on Barack Obama’s righteous indignation.

John McCain is counting on the tactics of the Klu Klux Klan to win this election: encourage ignorant peoples’ hate speech and threats against Negroes and hope that he can surf the wave of emotion this causes.

In a move that is sure to rattle Republicans more than Barack Obama’s misinterpreted “lipstick on a pig” comment, conservative columnist David Brooks decried Sarah Palin as a “fatal cancer to the Republican party”. He went on to say that, like George W. Bush, Sarah Palin prejudicially scorns not only liberal ideas, but ideas entirely. Continuing his criticism, he also added that Sarah Palin is “absolutely not ready to be president or vice president”.

Conversely, David Brooks praised Barack Obama as a “dazzling” intellectual with “tremendous powers of social perception”. Furthermore, Mr. Brooks admitted to being highly impressed by Barack Obama’s phenomenal ability to build a team of “the most impressive people in the Democratic party”, adding that the people Barack Obama has chosen are “exactly the people I think most of us would want to choose”.

Mr. Brooks also predicts a 9-Point Obama Victory this November.

It’s a powerful statement about the stability and the electability of the Republican Party when its former mouthpieces are abandoning The SS. GOP. Perhaps they know something that the rest of the Party doesn’t.

The GOP has recently ridiculed Colorado representative Mark Udall and his support of a “Department of Peace” through an ad in which a hippie decries this effort in front of a VW Microbus that, when the door is opened, billows thick clouds of grey smoke.

This shows the absurdity of the GOP’s values. They don’t mind gambling multi-trillions of dollars on War, but God forbid that somebody should suggest a peaceful alternative, especially one that doesn’t burden us with the further costs of thousands of American lives.

This is how out of touch the GOP is: to them, peace is not an idea that normal, sober-minded people ever consider. “Peace? Man, what drug were you one when you came up with THAT crazy notion?”

When asked for comment on the add, a spokesperson for Freedom Watch, the conservative group that funded it, dismissed the obvious references to marijuana by suggesting that the smoke “could just be an engine overheating”. Yes, the GOP assumes that people are gullible and naive enough to come to that conclusion.

“Unofficial Department of Peace” video