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[W]e all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane--just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.
Well, perhaps. But it says here that, since Sarah Palin's arrival on the scene, many Dems and their media acolyte have acted, by any objective standard, like barking loons.
Roger Kimball asks: Is Sarah Palin dangerous to your mental health?
See former Boston Globe political cartoonist Paul Szep drawing Sarah Palin as a member of the Taliban ready to put women in burkas.
Or the Democratic operative who took to the Globe op-ed page to compare Palin to the Taliban -- on the anniversary of 9/11.
Scroll through the incensed comments at the site of New York Times "mommy blogger" Judith Warner, who views Palin supporters, in Mark Hemingway's words, as if they're the Lost Tribe of Borneo.
Consider that the author of this grotesquerie at the Daily Kos is a former much-vaunted Democratic candidate for Congress. So much for a New Hope for Bringing People Together.
At least Pamela Anderson, to judge from her Internet videos, can be said to know whereof she speaks.