They want McCain to lose...

There are those on the right who would like to see McCain lose the election; in fact they are working toward that end now, according to Robert Novak of the Chicago Sun Times.

In an article titled "Evangelicals, Huckabee allied to sink McCain?", Novak says McCain "has a problem of disputed dimensions with a vital component of the conservative coalition: the evangelicals."

That's not really news. We've read about James Dobson and others threatening to boycott the election if McCain is the Republican nominee. We hope they do. We hope a many millions of the wackos and wingnuts on the right boycott the election! Stay home!


What I thought more interesting was the mentality of some of these kooks as described by Novak. Theirs is a mentality so distorted by mendacious religious concerns, they have no sense as to what this country is about or what it stands for. They are twisted, grotesque, figures of religious hatred and bigotry.

Thus, writes Novak, "An element of the Christian community is not reconciled to McCain's candidacy but instead regards the prospective presidency of Barack Obama in the nature of a biblical plague visited upon a sinful people." This "element of the Christian community" does not consider itself part of the "sinful people," of course!

Behind this notion, Novak suggests, might stand the no longer fat figure of the reprehensible Mike Huckabee (Novak didn't say "reprehensible." I threw that in because it was seemed apt.) Novak says that while outwardly Huckabee is strongly supportive of McCain, "credible activists are spreading the word that Huckabee secretly allies himself with the bitter-end opposition." Furthermore, critics of Huckabee's 10-year tenure as governor of Arkansas "say he is all too capable of playing a double game."

Now, for the best part: Someone in the wingnut Christian right whom Novak believes believable said Huckabee has "embraced the concept that an Obama presidency might be what the American people deserve. That fits what has largely been a fringe position among evangelicals, that the pain of an Obama presidency is in keeping with the Bible's prophecy."


This would all be quite hilarious except for the fact that many of these religious freaks already have insinuated themselves into various federal government crevices where daily they wreak their bitter harvest.

To believe that an Obama presidency is somehow a punishment on the American people for their unfaithfulness to a self-described despicable Christian deity, is lunacy. To actually live one's life thinking that an Obama presidency is somehow related to some ancient prophetic nonsense as recorded in a "book" that is 1500 plus years old, written by an unknown person in an unknown place, which has utterly no relevance to 2008, is indicative of a serious disconnect from reality.


Unfortunately, these people are not going away. They're talking about Huckabee for president in 2012! They want a man who will re-write the Constitution according to the laws of their dastardly god, a goal that Huckabee has promised to promote. These are people who yearn for a return to the Dark Ages.

It will take a great deal of hard work by honorable, ethical people to defend this land from these Bible-thumping fruitcakes. We must elect educated, principled, liberal, open and intelligent people in order to ensure a livable and sustainable world for our children and grandchildren.