OUCH: “It’s a sad day when the President of the United States uses taxpayer dollars to travel around the country ridiculing and provoking those taxpayers with whom he disagrees, but this is what we get when the ‘cool’ guy wins. How I long for the days of a ‘cowboy’ President I didn’t always agree with, but always respected.” The “provoking” part is a deliberate strategy, designed to inflame and produce things they can use to call the opposition extremist.

UPDATE: Faking the hate: “If you can’t stand the heat, manufacture a hate crime epidemic.”