Clinton’s Diehard Supporters Occupy a Completely Alternate Universe

These people are utterly insane. A few highlights from the protest:

Clusters of people in Hillary shirts ask to take their photo with [Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999.] One woman covered in Clinton buttons introduces him to Greta Van Susteren, and he estimates he has handed out 500 fliers [emblazoned with the words] “Obama’s DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS: Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex.”

And lest you think for a second that this behavior represents only the non-sanctioned lunatic fringe:

We tend to assume the Hillary camp’s hot rhetoric–that Obama’s less ready than McCain to be commander-in-chief, that the DNC in Florida is like Mugabe in Zimbabwe–is studied, purposeful, that they can’t really believe it. That may be true at the Lanny Davis level, but by the time it trickles down to Hillary’s most grassroots supporters, it becomes deadly serious.

Of the eight Hillary supporters I quiz at the protest (six of them women), only one says she’d even consider voting for Obama in the fall. “It’s sad. I’m a lifelong Democrat and the party’s been taken over by these Obama people who say they want ‘change,’” gripes Linda of Horseheads, New York, outside the Marriott as a honking car decorated with a painting of Hillary, a glued-on bust of Cleopatra, and a tampon drives by. Linda, she says, has already gone to the state Board of Elections to learn how to write Hillary’s name in in November. “So much has been stolen from her.”

Justine, a self-described “diehard Democrat” from Greensboro, North Carolina, objects to the write-in idea. “It’s gonna help Barack if you don’t vote against him,” she says. She and her friends got Sinclair to autograph their copies of the “Murder, Drugs, Gay Sex” flier. One of those friends, Jeannie, is living proof that, at least for some people, the long primary has done its damage. “When [Obama] first came out, we just thought he was too young,” she explains. “But now I don’t think he’s qualified at all.”…

The rhetoric from the top has imparted its poison below, and the bitterest criticisms of Obama gain traction as they circulate through the virulently-pro-Hillary echo chamber. “Would you rather have a president who had an affair [Bill Clinton] or one who was a murderer [Obama]?” Jeannie, the Greensboro Democrat, asks a fellow in a floppy Tilley hat and Hillary buttons. “That’s a good point,” he replies.

The simple fact is that the Clintons would rather utterly destroy the Democratic Party than hand its reigns over to the most promising young leader to come along in a generation. How sad. How sociopathic.