Gergen: McCain And Palin Should Calm Down The Unhinged McCainiacs

[RedEarth]

As noted below, the story of the moment is not just the unhinged quality we're seeing from more and more McCainiacs at McCain-Palin rallies, but also the leading role McCain and Palin have played in whipping up all the anger.

"There is a free-floating sort of whipping-around anger that could really lead to some violence," Gergen says. "And I think we're not far from that."

More from Gergen: "I think it's really imperative the candidates try to calm people down."

That's the story here: That not only have McCain and Palin helped stoke all this craziness, they've also refused to utter a single syllable of condemnation of any of it -- an astonishing abdication of leadership.

video here.........

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/10/gergen_mccain_and_palin_should.php

[ikojo]

1. Bbbuut, I thought Palin was a

CHRISTIAN! Why would she tolerate such vitriol and HATE?

[TomClash]

4. Read your bible!

Jesus hated commie pinko traitors!

It says so in Oedipus 9:11.

:sarcasm:

[elocs]

2. To be honest, your headline makes it look like that is what Gergen said,

when what he really said was: "I think it's really imperative the candidates try to calm people down." I think that quote was good enough and did not need to be puffed up to what he did not actually say.

[RedEarth]

3. The headline is what appeared on TPM....

[elocs]

5. I know, everybody seems to be repeating it word for word.

I have no doubt that is what he probably meant, but he did not say that specifically.