CRAZY IS A PREEXISTING CONDITION

Birthers, Town Hall Hecklers and the Return of Right-Wing Rage. Rick Perlstein in the Washington Post August 16: "The lockstep strangeness of the mad lies on the protesters' signs -- too uniform to be spontaneous. They are both. If you don't understand that any moment of genuine political change always produces both, you can't understand America, where the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests."

I'll let Professor Bainbridge respond to Perlstein's nuttiness, and simply add the following picture which was part of the Perlstein diatribe in the print edition, but not available online.



Note the "crazies" in the picture - the signs in the background are all pro-Obama. The "Obama as a Nazi" poster in front is being held by an Obama supporter, and the poster itself was found to be from "LaRouchePAC.com," the political action committee website for Communist and perpetual [Democratic] Presidential candidate Lyndon LaRouche. No right-winger he. The poster can be found here.

Perlstein's right, of course. Crazy is a preexisting condition; he's just wrong about which side is crazy.