Pic of Two Palin Rally Morans

[RamboLiberal]

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Palin's speeches and a series of recently released negative ads, some pundits say, are all par for the course in the waning days of a closely fought contest. Now questions are being raised, by the opposition and by outside observers, about whether Palin is stoking people's worst natures and, more broadly, about when a candidate should take her supporters to task when they go too far.

"At some level, negative rhetoric is part of the game. But is it truly dangerous?" asked Kimberly Gross, a professor of political communication at George Washington University. "Is someone going to kill Barack Obama because they went to a Palin rally? Probably not, and if they do it is more likely because they're crazy than because they heard someone tell them to do it at a Palin rally. It is dangerous in a bigger sense that it is bad for politics."

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Gross said politicians had a responsibility to call out their supporters when they say offensive things, not only for the good of their own electoral chances but for the good of the political system.

"In my opinion candidates have a responsibility to say something," she said. "Negative campaigning per se is not absolutely a bad thing, and can be informative. But candidates do us disservice when they create the conditions that can allow a crowd to get out of hand. It just reinforces a cynicism about politics."

Though much of the negative campaigning has fallen to Palin and the crowds who attend her rallies tend to come from the further right wing of the Rupublican base, McCain had a moment recently in Albuquerque, N.M., when a member of the crowd shouted a smear, which the candidate appeared to hear but said nothing about.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/story?id=5987004&page=1

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. Reich wing rallies, the new terrorist training camps. n/t

[budkin]

2. Nice... dude making a gun with his fingers and paint smeared on Obama that looks like blood, classy.

[sufrommich]

3. Hitler youth. nt

[TornadoTN]

4. Shouldn't these two fine Republican specimens be lining up behind other Freeps to enlist?

Oh that's right, other priorities. Leave the serving to someone else is their creed.

[Lerkfish]

5. I have to laugh at the fact that they bought the shirts in the first place.

so their hard earned money went to obama in order to make a lame statement.

[jrockford]

15. I was thinking the same thing nt

[Whalestoe]

6. Those kids are asking for an ass beating.

[bkinsd]

7. What's a moran??

[RamboLiberal]

8. DU shorthand for this pic which is infamous here of a Bush supporter

[abburdlen]

9. from this internet classic

[Lex]

10. this

[Drunken Irishman]

14. Wow, I've never seen the 2nd photo before!

I wonder if anyone informed him it was spelled wrong?

[Feron]

11. Everything out of that campaign is negative.

And nothing to compel me to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. They offer me as a voter nothing except for hate.

I was eh about voting for Obama, but the McCain campaign has fired me up. McCain/Palin are disgusting and vile human beings.

They accuse Democrats of thinking Obama is some sort of Messiah(which is funny considering their Reagan worship), but their rallies are like the fucking Hitler-esque hate rallies. Since when were racial epithets okay? Or calling for someone's death?

That's fucking sick and if I ever attended a rally in which those things were condoned, I'd leave and never return.

And I fucking hate the racism. There's nothing wrong with the name Hussein. Or being a Muslim. There are many secular Muslims.

McCain/Palin are an embarassment to the nation. If I have to crawl to the polls to vote Obama, by God I will.

[RagAss]

12. They wouldn't last 30 seconds in my hood !

[ccharles000]

13. Dumb fucks.

[MarthaMyDear]

16. I haven't heard it stated so well...Professor Gross' comments...

are what I've been wanting to hear from SOMEONE. There has to be some responsibility in all this..."Kill him", etc. has to be taken seriously, and the McCain campaign must take some sort of action on this extremism!

[book_worm]

17. the typical McCain/Palin supporter is as dumb as dirt, and that's being rude to dirt.