[Excaliber]

So what's the problem here? Man, you guys are the scary ones! Your fear mongering over a campaign plane paint job borders on paranoia.

Well Joe McCarthy would sure be proud! This kind of thinking exemplifies the kind of timidity that is most damaging and stems from the consequence of anticommunist furor. Since political activities could get you in trouble, prudent folk avoided them. Instead, to the despair of intellectuals, middle class Americans embraced social conformity. You don't have to wear a flag pin or paint a flag on your plane to demonstrate your loyalty to the USA. Indeed, it is SO often over used I question it's ability to have any real meaning when used by a politician on the campaign trail. It is, to often, little more than a policitcal statement designed to appease the masses.