Karim posted a condolence
/ HalI enjoy your deconstruction of the plcitioal milieu. The comment today that Republicans are for whatever they see as fighting an existentialist threat was perhaps the best encapsulation of their motivations, and the motivations of the lizard brain fear driven reaction I've heard lately.I disagree with your take on Ed Schultz. He reaches a gut level response from middle America. I've seen him talk at the One Nation rally last year, and I've heard him talk to people at a real gut level on his radio show, and on TV. My take on Ed's position last fall was not that he was against voting for the Democratic candidates, but that he could understand why people had lost the fire they had in the 2008 election. He seemed to be on disappointed liberal supporter trying to find a reason why others should continue to support the candidates who had not acted in the full measure the rest of us liberals had expected.Nick