By now most of us are probably familiar with the classic over-the-top snark Christopher
Hitchens used to close out his recent Palin-bashing column:
This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It
has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a
religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who
despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are
morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly
envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate
of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith”
but theocratic bullies. On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the
Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and
stupidity.
Over at Contentions Abe Greenwald gives a
good retort:
You’ve been given your mandate, intellectual America! Fight
clerical ignorance by electing a president whose spiritual
mentor preaches that H.I.V. was invented by the U.S.
government. Stand up to bullying stupidity and toxic envy by
casting your vote for the two-decade-long member of Jeremiah
Wright’s “God damn America” Trinity United Church — an
institution that readily supported Louis Farrakhan and that
furnished Hamas-supporters with a forum to spew anti-Israel
fantasies. And don’t forget to demonstrate your love for the
Constitution by putting in the White House a man who laments
the “essential constraints” the document places on the
judiciary’s ability to spread wealth around. Good night, God
bless, yes we can, and Amen.
