Ex-fetus,

Mao also said: “The revolutionary army is to the people as the fish is to the ocean.”

I’m sorry. I just don’t see the revolutionary condition. You’re all fired up, but the people aren’t with you.

The only thing that you would achieve would be to hasten the bad juju and make it even more popular. (Timothy McVeigh had heroic music in his head, too. What was the result of Oklahoma City? The constitutionalist cause was set back for more than a decade.)

Can you or whiskey prevent any of the catastrophes that you fear with threats of political violence? Will you inspire the people to rise up and follow your brave example? What levels of collateral damage are you willing to risk? How much collateral damage do you think that you would be allowed before you, yourself are ratted out and shot like a dog?

I surely believe that an Obama presidency would give aid and comfort to our enemies. So, you would advocate that we double his glee with a civil conflict, or, even better, a race war!!

Oh, I guess that you think it would be a quick and clean, surgical affair. We’ll frog march the culprits to the gallows and everything will return to normal.
How in the wide world of sports do you expect me, or anybody else, to have even a molecule of confidence that you would have the political skill or power to return things to “normal,” if you can’t manage a few political victories under constitutional order? How would you control all of the bad men let loose across the land during a civil conflict?

What about our sons and daughters in the military and law enforcement? Shall they abandon their oaths to defend the constitution? Oh, that’s right, you have a purer, more exquisite interpretation of the constitution. (Sounds like taqfir to me … )

Political violence is a profound thing. Only fools contemplate it lightly.

In the here-and-now presidential campaign, the chance that our opponents might capitalize on these intemperate postings weighs more heavily for me than any momentary thrill you might get from them.

First, we work our asses off to elect John McCain. Then we either celebrate or mourn the result. Then we work our asses off to nudge things in a better direction. Only when every, and I mean EVERY, legal effort has been expended will I ever tolerate or entertain talk of political violence.