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The disgusting thing you see accompanying this post is a mailer sent out by a California GOP women’s group. (Via Megan.) Notice how conscientious these pieces of shit are — yup, there it is, the Kool-Aid, the fried chicken bucket, the food-stamp backdrop and, for garnish, the slice of watermelon. Think about how much time went into crafting this: the brainstorming session, the Photoshop job, the after-work joshing about what would make for a good adjustment, the deliverance to the printer, the offload of the boxes into everyone’s cars, the trip to the post office. And then this woman expects you to believe this:

"It was strictly an attempt to point out the outrageousness of his statement [about not looking like the other presidents on the dollar bill]. I really don’t want to go into it any further," Fedele said in a telephone interview Tuesday. "I absolutely apologize to anyone who was offended. That clearly wasn’t my attempt."

It’s not worth it to engage this worthless, trivial human being on her own cretinous terms. What’s worth remembering is that this is just one of the thousand flowers of bigotry that John McCain and Sarah Palin allowed to bloom about three weeks ago. They have neither the intention nor the desire to dial this type of hatred back. All we can do is keep this albatross around their necks for all time, so the vileness they unleashed becomes synonymous with their names and appears in the first paragraphs of their obituaries, political and otherwise.

David Petraeus told us last week that it was the job of the troops under his command to "Live Our Values." It’s good advice. We can see clearer than ever that the conservative movement and the Republican Party are living their eternal, enduring values with greater fidelity every passing day.