Five Before Chaos

The ‘big split in the fundie ranks’ story rages on. This time, Robert Novak in the WaPo rakes in the big bucks by stating the glaringly obvious:

But the situation is not a simple confrontation between the Christian right and Giuliani. The Gallup data suggest that Dobson and the Salt Lake City group may be out of touch with rank-and-file churchgoers.

Gee, that took a lot of hard thinking, didn’t it – the majority of churchgoing Americans aren’t homphobic, intolerant, anti-intellectual sheep sitting around waiting for the Rapture? Who knew?

I was originally starting this off as a post on Sam Brownback, after reading something about his comments that “would having an abortion really help a victim of rape or incest?” Well, considering that she wouldn’t have a daily reminder of the incident walking around, the answer is “of course, you dumbass!”. But chances are, if you follow the doings of the theocratic wingnuts, you probably already know about crazy Sam, and it’s not like he has a chance in hell of getting the GOP nomination anyways, so why bother wasting anymore pixels on him?

Anyways, I was over at the Anti-Sam Brownback Blog and caught wind of this piece over at RedState.com called “They All Suck”. Yep, for once they were actually correct about something – the sorry state of the current GOP roster of presidential candidates. But a look through the comments was rather revealing as to how clueless these people at RedState really are. They really do have that Krazy Konservative Kool-Aid running through their veins. Hop below the fold for some choice excerpts as we take a laughable… and sometimes frightening journey (cue ominous music here) … into the Conservative Brain Stem.

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Welcome to Pottersville has a great Frank Rich piece today about the symbolic importance of Jerry Falwell’s death:

Though Mr. Falwell had long been an embarrassment and laughingstock to many, including a new generation of Christian leaders typified by Mr. Kuo, the timing of his death could not have had grander symbolic import. It happened at the precise moment that the Falwell-Robertson brand of religious politics is being given its walking papers by a large chunk of the political party the Christian right once helped to grow. Hours after Mr. Falwell died, Rudy Giuliani, a candidate he explicitly rejected, won the Republican debate by acclamation. When the marginal candidate Ron Paul handed “America’s mayor” an opening to wrap himself grandiloquently in 9/11 once more, not even the most conservative of Deep South audiences could resist cheering him. If Rudy can dress up as Jack Bauer, who cares about his penchant for drag?

Wasn’t the MSM coverage of Falwell’s passing kind of funny? Aside from from the obvious nutjobs, people were struggling to say something, anything nice about the departed Christofascist gasbag. Continue reading

I have to say, even though I still think it’s way too early to be focusing on the ’08 elections, and my biggest fear is probably a Hillary presidency, I am enjoying the hell out of watching the GOP continue to self-destruct at so many levels.

First, there’s the Congress and Senate. So many of them are digging in their heels on supporting Bush and the war, it’s making me seriously think that the conventional wisdom that politicians are only concerned about being reelected is very wrong. They’re setting themselves up for an electoral bloodbath in ’08. It really seems that the goal here, as some have already stated, is to keep the war going until Bush is out of office and let the next president clean up the mess. But you can tell they’re getting nervous when Foghorn Leghorn himself is starting to talk about timetables. But what makes it funny is they still have the wingnuts like this one leading them around like a bull with a nose ring.

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