[Boyd K.] Packer’s talk was laden with terms such as “evil” and “wickedness” and “perversion” and as Packer declared that civil equality for gay couples would lead to the end of civilization, his entire sermon is foul and objectionable. [speaking of Mormon leader]

“…gays (or “perverts,” as he referred to them) “seek to target our children and destroy their lives.” [speaking of Carl P. Paladino]

So…we have a Catholic using the same terms a Mormon used a week before and with cheers from a crowd of Jews.

Do they all have a red phones connected to each other so that they can compare notes and recite the same rhetoric?

These people are on the ballot because, in this election cycle, their supporters are the ones who have done the grunt work and turned out to vote.

Grotesque as they are, in no sense have they handed Democrats “an easy win.” No serious poll, at this date, suggests so.

It’s voter turnout that matters. Recall that in Delaware, just a fraction of voters turned out, and they handed O’Donnell a slim victory.

Only if progressives and Democrats bother to go vote (a good question) will these people be defeated, because THEIR supporters surely will turn out.

Paladino and O’Donnell are long shots, but Angle, Rubio, Miller and a myriad others are certainly not; polling shows them ahead or in dead heats. Some of these people – maybe many of them – are going to be elected.

It is seriously grim.

At least, I hope there are enough good people left in New York to vote down this sort of especially toxic twit. Otherwise all the rational people left in government will have their time wasted in trying to keep this goofball from destroying the state.

There’s nothing I can say that will snap Paladino into shape; two zillion commentators have tried it for decades.

But if he wants a course of study, especially about dysfunction and homosexuality, I’d suggest he start with Evelyn Hooker in 1957, and move forward.

Carl! They have COLOR MOVIES now!