Today's raving lunatic is...

...Alan Keyes:

In terms of the conservative constituency of the Republican Party, Sen. McCain is an opportunistic infection that threatens to ravage and destroy its defenseless body. Tragically for America, in the larger context of our national political life he still plays the role of the AIDS virus, masquerading as a republican while opening the way for Barack Obama, the opportunistic infection that will ravage the defenseless body of our republic. If we accept the McCain/Obama choice, we resign the republic to its demise. I guess the "lesser of evils" crowd will take comfort in the notion that though infected with HIV, the patient actually died of pneumonia. Unfortunately, this is false comfort, since the choice they make increases the virulence of the opportunistic infection.

Keyes seems to be obsessed with AIDS ever since his daughter came out as a lesbian. He also seems to have become unhinged since then. For a Christian, as he claims to be, to throw his daughter out of his house, as he did, must have required him to harden his heart in a cold calculating inhuman fashion and thus become demented. Maybe someone will take pity and put this poor suffering mad dog out of its misery?

Picture borrowed from the brilliant Michael Totten: