If America is the best country in the world, how come we’re such a complete basketcase?

Just how far gone do you have to be to make George W. Bush look like some kind of wise elder statesman?

Thanks to those very same conservatives, this entire country now resembles nothing so much as their stereotype of a loser writ large.

Prince Poppycock is important for America because he makes a statement just by being himself and performing in full outrageous historical drag. On September 7 Poppycock showcased a message, singing a medley of “The Star Bangled Banner,” “Yankey Doodle Boy” and “Stars and Stripes Forever” while images of American civil liberty heroes Susan B. Anthony, Rosa Parks and Harvey Milk screened behind him. America loved it, and voted yet again to keep him in the competition and into the finals.

There’s no doubting the conservative bona fides of Bruce Fein. A high-level Justice Department lawyer in the Reagan administration in the 1980s and previously a resident scholar with the Heritage Foundation, he is a long-time advocate for uncompromising right-wing political principles.

With Todd Palin, with Sarah Palin, the question must be asked:

How can someone who could possibly be in line to become President of the United States be associated with a group that advocates secession from the United States?

In this week’s ABC debate, Barack Obama gets asked about his patriotism. This morning on ABC, John McCain gets asked if Barack Obama “shares his patriotism.”

But Karl Rove appeared on Fox News wearing a flag pin this morning, so I guess we know who the true patriot is.