Haven't perused Power Line for a while but I see now that on September 24 John Hinderaker wrote that, while the number of American politicians more contemptible than Walter Mondale is dwindling, Jimmy Carter's death would nudge his v.p. closer to the head of the class. This was in the second paragraph of a post. The first paragraph was about the regrettable coarseness of American politics. Hinderaker is too self effacing to put forward his own example as a needed corrective but here he is replying to someone who once disagreed with him:
You dumb shit, he didn't get access using a fake name, he used his real name. You lefties' concern for White House security is really touching, but you know what, you stupid asshole, I think the Secret Service has it covered. Go crawl back into your hole, you stupid left-wing shithead. And don't bother us anymore. You have to have an IQ over 50 to correspond with us. You don't qualify, you stupid shit.
Yet I have some regard for Carter and Mondale, who cannot draw on such resources of vocabulary and personal charm. Perhaps they only seem contemptible in comparison.
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