Outrageous Flyers in Dayton

Even as Drudge reports that Elizabeth Edwards quipped that there won't be any riots if the Democrats win, the flyer below is making the rounds in Dayton, Ohio. Coupled with the sacking of GOP headquarters around the country, a novel calling for Bush's assassination, Charlie Brooker's (now "explained") wish for another John Wilkes Booth, the pie attack on Ann Coulter, and other outrages, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised by any form of campaign vulgarity.

But this idiocy, and the failure of leading Dems and the MSM to unequivocally condemn it, has defined campaign idiocy downwards so that violence against Republicans has become acceptable in some circles. And Elizabeth Edwards can't be excused as merely flippant, not after her outrageous remarks about Mary Cheney. This is all of a piece, and the leaders of the Democratic establishment are morally culpable for the violence they've encouraged or winked at.