Oh Falwell, how you amuse and terrify me
Well, golly. I didn't know that God was a Republican. And that he favors and talks to bigots and medicine men!
'Rev' Falwell, bonkers gonzo that he is, is sometimes scary -- not because he's a loon, but because he represents a large segment of (my) American society.
This is scary. Not so much because he clumsily equates Hilary to Lucifer, but because:
Falwell said religious conservatives do not favor Clinton for several reasons, but mostly because she is pro-choice on abortion, “the cutting-edge issue for social conservatives.”
Attendees also were assured during the prayer breakfast that God would preserve a Republican majority in Congress.
Well, golly. I didn't know that God was a Republican. And that he favors and talks to bigots and medicine men! Well, let me hang up my logic card and follow root tootin' in step with Mr. Falwell because you know, God is a firm follower of a party found on the broken embers of two other shoddy parties in 1854, an ancient 142 years ago. Wow!
What a goober (Falwell, not God).
And this is doubly scary:
Even in this crowd of nearly 2,000 Christian conservative activists, some balked at one tactic recommended to turn out church voters. In a workshop, Connie Marshner, a veteran organizer, distributed a step-by-step guide that recommended obtaining church directories and posing as a nonpartisan pollster to ask people how they planned to vote.
“Hello, I am with ABC polls,” a suggested script began.
Some attendees complained that the script seemed deceptive, Ms. Marshner said in an interview afterward. She said that such disguised calls were a common campaign tactic, that it was just a suggested script and that she never recommended answering a direct question with a lie.
Oh, and go Bubba! Stick it to them!