I think that is a bit over the top.

Nobody was more hated than Bush in 04 and there was no blood letting when he won.   I have faith in America and Americans.   All will be fine.   This isn't some third world country.

Don't worry. These people who you fear aren't so tough. They talk tough, and only want a fight with someone who won't fight back. As soon as someone fights back, they go crying to their mommies like they are some kind of martyrs.

Those who might try what you suggest - they will be handled appropriately, and suffice it to say, that they are going to be very unhappy.

This is down ticket strategy, for incumbents.

They are worried they are going to get blown out, if their base doesn't show up.

The party is encouraging McCain to go there, even though it will mark him as a pariah in political history?

But, it might save some congress critters hanging by a thread in SC or GA....

John Kerry was "unfit for command."

Obama is arrogant.  Obama is friends with radicals.   Obama is blah blah blah.

Bush is a coke head.  Bush is a drunk.  Bush was AWOL.   Etc. etc.

McCain is angry.  McCain out of touch.  McCain us unstable.

Its a campaign.  People say mean things about their opponents.  

defend Obama, keep talking about issues. On the ground in Virginia, I'm knocking on doors and I can tell you, this is not selling. McCain is only embarassing himself right now and Palin is looking like a hatemonger. It's not working, it's destroying them.

I talked to a cop today who thinks if, God forbid, anything was to happen to Obama, there could be a case against Palin.

attacks...probably not a positive one I would imagine.

Michelle Laxalt is almost certainly a McCain/Palin supporter and I would imagine has a sign somewhere in her house, but even she has condemned their campaign tactics.

I met my colleagues mother yesterday. Nice lady who grew up in KY and now living in NC. She is told me that she might have voted for McCain but Palin turned her off and she finds these smears despicable. However this hate speech is getting some traction somewhere and so they are just ramping it up. We need to act. We need to put a stop to this. I was suggesting a letter writing campaign to all editorial boards across the nation. Is it feasible? Can it be done?

(Warning: hyperbole ahead.)

You forget that there are two kinds of hard-core Republicans, the country clubbers and the racist gun-toting Jesus freaks.  The former will just go play golf; the latter may get blasted on meth and moonshine and do something stupid.

That guy was a plant, for TV and other consumption.

Not that there aren't blacks that support McCain.

The Ward Connerly contingent.

But, I think, even THEY would freeze if they knew the word that comes to mind with these people when they rise to speak.

the Republican party has its fair share of Uncle Ruckuses.

Yeah, I dunno, step outside of thinking electorally for a minute.  I really am not into the idea of living through another Klan ressurgence.

There's a major difference: the reason you could predict that there would be no lasting split in the Democratic party was that there was simply no way for hardcore anti-Obama people to organize themselves fast enough, or along any princples that anyone would ever be able to articulate.  There's no built-in "against sexism but tolerant of every other prejudice civil libertarian unless Obama is for it also and tolerant of Larouchites and 9/11 truthers but also pro-Iraq War" wing of the party.  I mean they're out there, but there's nowhere for them to go.

Here there is.  The Southern Poverty Law Center tracks them.  They've been around for over a hundred years.

It should also go without saying that the people we're talking about different and much, much nastier, but that's subjective: I'm just trying to demonstrate why the two situations aren't comparable without resorting to explaining the differences in the people involved.

I'm so not comfortable going that route.