Yesterday,in discussing the exceptional amount of blatant Republican lying this year, an experienced and well-respected adviser for a Democratic officeholder said this to me (I'm going to paraphrase:)
"For many years I've been puzzled by the sheer malicious obviousness of some of the Republican print and TV lies.
I knew that they were either insane or evil. [Note: How else can you explain the whole Birther thing?] I tried to be charitable and assumed mere insanity.
But this year, for the first time, I'm starting to go with evil."
All that is needed to make a happy life is within yourself, in your way of thinking. -Marcus Aurelius