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Christine O'Donnell Will Stop America From Sexing Each Other (VIDEO)

There was a time -- honestly, there was -- when such a suggestion would be so ignorant and absurd that its source would be dismissed as delusional, not embraced as a major party's candidate for the senate.

I recall what Mark Twain wrote in the calendar of Pudd'nhead Wilson: "October 12, The Discovery. It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." We must remember that the political imbeciles on the scene today do have a tradition, and a long one at that. But I don't recall a time when they appeared to be so popular.