I find that this blog is a fascinating representative sample of the current state of the American right, and provides a telling glimpse at its likely future for the next several years at least.

Of course, there's still a fair chance that McCain will win this upcoming election. But if this blog is any indication, then, if Obama wins, there will be little to no soul-searching, introspection, or self-examination going on in large segments of the right-wing community. Instead of performing such healthy and necessary activities, valuable time and energy amongst the right will be wasted scapegoating ACORN, liberal messianism, campaign fundraising conspiracies, insufficiently aggressive attacks over the sinister Ayers-Wright-Khalidi triangle, and, first and foremost as always, pervasive liberal media bias for the election loss.

What will go unquestioned, of course, is the quasi-religious faith amongst most of those on the right that their ideology is sacrosanct and inviolable and, indeed, preferred by the American people as a whole. (Aren't self-questioning and a re-evaluation of one's principles both liberal values, meant only for surrender-monkeys and hippies?) What will be taken as axiomatic on the right, therefore, is that the success of this ideology could only have been ruined by dirty tricks on the other side and by human error and weakness amongst those on the right. If only there existed politicians who could carry right-wing ideology in its pure, unaltered state!

Despite the fact that large majorities of the American public now say in polls that the Republican party has moved too far to the right, the rank-and-file of the party believe precisely the opposite, that the Republican party needs to be even more doctrinaire and orthodox in their ideology.

So thanks for providing me with this fascinating, revealing portrait. Please go about your business. I find it fascinating, really! As you were saying, Obama and his henchmen (presumably Rahm Emanuel, Dennis Ross, David Axelrod, Warren Buffet, Robert Rubin, and Lawrence Summers) will now lead to the death of Israel, the elimination of gun rights, and the coming age of American Communism, and all because Americans couldn't see, as did both you and that foreign-policy maven Joe the Plumber, that we were electing Deval Patrick (or was it Sammy Davis, Jr.?) as our president. Oh, it's just shameful!