Collective hysteria

Believe it or not, a very small few of us remain flabbergasted that Mr. O is still a serious candidate for the highest office on Earth. And on that note, I'm not sure it can be said much better than Mark Levin has put it over at NRO.

It begins:

I've been thinking this for a while so I might as well air it here. I honestly never thought we'd see such a thing in our country - not yet anyway - but I sense what's occurring in this election is a recklessness and abandonment of rationality that has preceded the voluntary surrender of liberty and security in other places. I can't help but observe that even some conservatives are caught in the moment as their attempts at explaining their support for Barack Obama are unpersuasive and even illogical. And the pull appears to be rather strong. Ken Adelman, Doug Kmiec, and others, reach for the usual platitudes in explaining themselves but are utterly incoherent. Even non-conservatives with significant public policy and real world experiences, such as Colin Powell and Charles Fried, find Obama alluring but can't explain themselves in an intelligent way.

There is a cult-like atmosphere around Barack Obama, which his campaign has carefully and successfully fabricated, which concerns me. The messiah complex. Fainting audience members at rallies. Special Obama flags and an Obama presidential seal. A graphic with the portrayal of the globe and Obama's name on it, which adorns everything from Obama's plane to his street literature. Young school children singing songs praising Obama. Teenagers wearing camouflage outfits and marching in military order chanting Obama's name and the professions he is going to open to them. An Obama world tour, culminating in a speech in Berlin where Obama proclaims we are all citizens of the world. I dare say, this is ominous stuff.

To the hardcore leftists, middle-of-the-road Obama supporters, and the so-called conservatives who have joined the Barack kool-aid brigade; I'm sure this all sounds like the wacky hyperbole of bitter Republicans who just can't take a (potential) loss.

I'm sure it sounds like anything but the voices in the wilderness screaming out against a serious leftward paradigm shift that could have permanent consequences for this great society.

Maybe.

But I'm sure at some point in history, at some point in the past, those of us who were thought of as crackpot kooks holed-up in our bunkers, watching our own countries circle the drain...must have been right at least once.

Maybe?

In the meantime, anyone waiting for this conservative to wet his finger, hold it to the wind, and jump on the Barry Bandwagon is going to be waiting for a very long time.