It's a bit like filling out a March Madness bracket, but with unreliable seeding. The forecasts cloudy and wild -- with a chance of being dead wrong. The results won't come until Tuesday night at the earliest. But luckily, you don't have to wait. This is because you have reckless prognosticators.
The mind of the demagogue is a foreign country. It has a strange culture, enemies that only the natives can see, a passion about the ridiculous and a blowtorch kind of sincerity that incinerates logical thinking. On Sunday, the custodian of one such blowtorch was on Fox News. I am speaking, of course, of Sarah Palin.
The first African American president takes office, and almost immediately we see the birth of a big, passionate national movement - overwhelmingly white and lavishly funded - that tries its best to delegitimize that president, seeks to thwart his every initiative, and manages to bring the discredited and moribund opposition party roaring back to life. Coincidence?
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