Comments on Godless America: Part II

i can hardly believe it. republicans becoming NOT complete backward assholes? i'm not sure who i am anymore. i never dreamed they'd evolve. i just thought they'd die out and/or succeed in killing us all off.

They're moving away from backwards evangelical social-conservatism back to fiscal conservatism by going bananas over an evangelical social conservative with the fiscal probity of a crackhead? Yeah. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

Palin's just a bauble on the tide, Fnarf. Tonight's her night, but the evangelicals' days are numbered.

Um gee, ya think they're telling you exactly what you want to hear?

Meanwhile, the real plan to turn the truck-loads of wild-eyed, Bush-crazed psychopaths in the US military into an American religious police force is moving along swimmingly. No one expects the American Inquisition!

They can say that all they want, but until they abandon even the pretense of ruling by majority consensus, they need jingoistic fundamentalism as a cover. "Fiscal conservatism" translates as "tax breaks for the rich and no-bid contracts for my friends," which benefits far too narrow a band of voters to ever win elections on its merits. If it weren't for abortion they would be exactly nowhere. That issue alone has convinced three decades of working class Evangelicals to vote against their own economic self interest.

Sure, the rich ones admit they'd like to quit lying about believing that crap when they get off on their own with a few drinks in them. But no way in hell will they return to being the Republican Party of Goldwater until they figure out some other means of fleecing the rubes.