Where is the hate?

Recent days have been instructive. I 'discovered' Palin in June, thanks to a an article in RealClearPolitics. Reading the article and searching for other information, I was left with strong impression that Palin was an ideal VP candidate. The MSM in the US clearly didn't see this, neither did the official Obama campaign, thus the 'shock' and frenzy when she was tapped as VP.Now, to be fair to the media, this sudden elevation of a virtually unknown person (in Wash DC anyway) is bound to accelerate reporting about her, including the publishing of critical articles. But the reporting went far beyond this. Some rightwinged commentators were talking about the many 'traps' embedded in Palin's VP candidature, and wow, the lefties were sprinting to every one of them. This is not because McCain carefully staged the traps, but because the left cannot help being themselves, just as a fox cannot help being a fox.What was new, at least to me, was the emergence of a new left: not the hard-line left, not the loonie left ... but the Creepy Left. It's hallmark is not specific policy issues, but it's dehumanizing attacks political opponents and whoever they associate with them, just like Palin's family.In the middle of their feeding frenzy, attacking children seemed 'normal', in their frenzy normal human ethics were warped beyond recognition and in their frenzy they showed how the dark side of humanity can appear in all political movements.