Thursday, April 06, 2006
God and the Republicans - Ah,Togetherness
"Religious party"! Gag me with a spoon. While it is easy to understand the GOP's use of God, for God to permit the Republicans to adopt him is a different matter. God must be blind...and deaf. Was away in the high desert for a few days and didn't catch historian Kevin Phillips' article "How GOP Became God's Own Party" until this morning. "Now that the GOP has been transformed by the rise of the South, the trauma of terrorism and George W. Bush's conviction that God wanted him to be president, a deeper conclusion can be drawn: The Republican Party has become the first religious party in U.S. history."
What are the Democrats to do...turn into sanctimonious hypocrites? It would be interesting to see the results of the mid-term elections. Time is running out and the Democrats still lack a clear message. The gains and losses by each party will be an indicator of how the voters feel about God's party and what it has done for them and the country. Would the milking of God and 9/11 continue for ever and ever? The prospect is depressing.
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