Flipping through channels earlier, stopped on C-Spans Washington Journal. Chris Shays was on and actually made a surprisingly reasonable point about “purple america” instead of the stereotype of Red vs Blue.

And then the air got sucked out of the room…

Some guy called right afterwards from Indiana and launched into a tirade best described as part neo-imperialist, part theocrat, saying “ignore these stupid ‘purples’ an’ the libruls, they don’t know anything. It’s a religious war, we need to kill them, the muslims, invade Iran…” It went on, but my ears were begging for mercy.

Gee, wonder who he voted for…