An open letter to Republican voters

Signs in the crowd at McCain's rally in Virginia Beach.


Dear Republican voters,

Aren't you embarrassed by the lows the McCain campaign is sinking to? I know that you fear intellectuals, but do you also have to celebrate ignorance? Even the chairman of Virginia's Republican Party is unapologetic in comparing Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden. Is the problem with your leaders, or with your rank and file?

I know many Republicans must have gone to college and become well-adjusted, kind, decent people with families and jobs and a love for their country. But your party seems to be riddled with idiots, and leaders who encourage them: people who think Obama is an Arab, people who think he's Muslim, people who think he's a terrorist, people who think he swore his oath of office on the Koran, people who think he's going to raise taxes on working families, people who think he's going to let Iran nuke Israel -- the list of insane, ignorant beliefs is long.

Can't some of you educated Republicans set the others straight? Or is this a strategy, a tacit admission that the only chance you have to win in November is to dumb down the electorate and suppress voter turnout?

Is that anything to be proud of? Is there anything more pathetic and sad than an American who stands behind the Republican Party's 2008 campaign of ignorance?

Sincerely,
Luddite Machine