Any "Responsible" Democrat Want to Defend This?

Random samplings from Bill Maher's message board today:

* "Is it now morally excusable to organize midnight raids on Republican groups in the red states and 'terminate' them with extreme prejudice?"

* "Watching Bush's acceptance speech on Wednesday, with the Cheney's on stage as well....who would not have liked to see a bomb go off under the stage and wipe out the whole despicable slimy lot of them? And hopefully the shrapnel would have gone to the second deck and blown Mary Matalin's head off as well."

* "Be honest. Who would not like to see Karen Hughes run over by an 18 wheel truck? Who wouldn't like to see her carcass scattered all over highway 99?"

(In that context, recall the vehicular assault a few weeks ago against Representative Katherine Harris (R-FL))

* "I actually would love to see Karen Hughes have to endure the following: I'd like to have her strung up in a bikini on a flagpole, and let random pedistrians and bystanders throw things at her and see if they can hit her."

* "And you do realize that over 80% of our troops support Bush, don't you?"

* "Yes darling - I do.... That's only fair isn't it? Why should decent people die in your bogus war you murdering hun. I hope the whole lot of them are decapitated... but getting the butts blown off will suffice."

I have to differ with Mark Noonan about this level of hate "burning itself out." This is precisely the mindset that metastasizes and malignantly spreads like a cancer.

What makes it supremely ironic is that the people engaging in this Naziesque rhetoric are some of the same ones who falsely accused conservative talk radio of the very same thing in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing nearly a decade ago. They maligned the Right for creating an "atmosphere of hate" that spawned Timothy McVeigh's atrocity, without the slightest shred of evidence of any rhetoric that would reasonably have been expected to encourage such an act.

No conservative, grassroots or celeb or in elective office, ever hissed and snarled the appalling depths of hatred against Bill Clinton or Democrats or liberals that today's distraught, demented donks do, and have with increasing ferocity over the past few months. But, soulless creatures that they are, it served their political purposes to smear the Right as such back then, just as it salves their horrified secular sensibilities and eviscerated politicocultural egos to threaten the Right with violence and mass murder now. They look in the mirror and see their opponents staring back at them, because they're not capable of seeing themselves, as Mark Helprin wrote of them a decade ago, as anything but "saviors, saints, and divine beings, literally with angel's wings."

In that same Wall Street Journal piece from March 25, 1994, Helprin also described the "most arrogant people in America" as, "a triumphalist coterie of graduate students who accord to the hard Left the same uneasy respect that most people reserve for the clergy, and grow teary-eyed over bats, squirrels, and caribou as with barely concealable pleasure they sacrifice whole regions of rednecks." [my emphasis]

Is this beginning to sound familiar? And here I thought that was just hyperbole.

I don't anymore. If "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned," Sheol was just the warmup act for what's gestating now.

I think Brother Hinderaker over at Powerline is, regrettably, spot on:

"This kind of insanity is everywhere in today's Democratic Party. I've said it before and I'll say it again: someone is going to get killed before this madness is over."

And they will be but the first of many.