Jack Murtha’s big mouth just made his reelection campaign a bit dicey. Meanwhile, the NRCC is pulling out of Marilyn Musgrave and Michele Bachmann’s districts, leaving them for dead. Murtha will probably survive, considering how much federal lucre he brings home to Johnstown. But all of these candidates are learning the lesson that George Allen was taught in 2006. In a YouTube world, you can’t go around saying really intemperate stuff and think that you are not going to pay a price. Another example is the Muslim-bashing Virgil Goode of central Virginia. He may not get beat this year, but his opponent raised $1,339,603 through September, matching his coffers. If nothing else, Goode’s intolerant rants have made it necessary for him to work extremely hard in what should have been a cakewalk reelection campaign.

People are really sick of demagogues and fearmongers. And, yet, that’s the route McCain and Palin chose for themselves. The route is leading to a rout.

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