My two-year-old, who is admittedly a conservative Republican, has recently emerged from a phase in which she admiringly called just about everything "scary". Republicans, though, seem locked in that particular developmental stage.
Take a look at this Republican National Committee email to supporters this morning to choose the scariest Democrat. No surprises on the winner. But what makes Hillary Clinton scarier than the war in Iraq, the possibility of a new one in Iran and - let's face it - Dick Cheney?
