Yes it's cruel to laugh at others' afflictions, but come on, Republican pathology is really quite funny.
PPP looks at the case of South Carolina's 1st Congressional District, where, with Elizabeth Colbert Busch now narrowly trailing,
voters say they have a higher opinion of [Mark] Sanford than [Barack Obama] by a 48/44 spread.
Why of course. Whereas Obama has merely overcome immense obstables to professional as well as personal success and has thus proved the enchanting exceptionalism of America's sort, which right wingers claim to worship in all its color-blind glory, Sanford has managed to take every advantage in life and use them to dig his way to unspeakable degradation and disgrace.
We political diagnosticians have for years suspected a critically massive Stench Point in Republican politics which even Republicans won't be capable of tolerating. Tomorrow may well prove us wrong. But we can still laugh.