Your points are well-taken in some respects, but I disagree that McCain is political death for even the “wacky far-right fringe.”
The same thing, for example, was said after the election of Eisenhower (another military man who was elected as a Republican not because he was a Republican, but because he was the right man for the times). Yet Ronald Reagan came along.
This is part of the ebb and flow of history, not Armageddon.
Well....I would agree with you, fighinJAG.
Except that Obama plans on having a Domestic Police Force in the same size and scope as our military...under the Homeland Security mantel.
FreeRepublic could be shut down as a hate site.
How soon after that will it be before Martial Law is invoked? How soon after that will be have our own rendition of "The Night of Broken Glass" the way German populations attacked Jewish businesses, etc..
Transpose Jews with Conservatives...and you have it. And don't tell me it can't happen.