Yeah, I picked up on that one right away.  *Golf clap*

Okay, I go away to work in the hospital a few weeks and come back to find the Choir Boy has somehow assembled a choir anyway.

I don't know how he does it when he says things like this:

Once the colleges fell [to Satan] and those who were being educated in our institutions, the next was the church. Now you’d say, ‘wait, the Catholic Church’? No. We all know that this country was founded on a Judeo-Christian ethic but the Judeo-Christian ethic was a Protestant Judeo-Christian ethic, sure the Catholics had some influence, but this was a Protestant country and the Protestant ethic, mainstream, mainline Protestantism, and of course we look at the shape of mainline Protestantism in this country and it is in shambles, it is gone from the world of Christianity as I see it.

As Ed Kilgore remarks:

...while it’s not unusual to hear the occasional Protestant fundamentalist or Catholic traditionalist mock us mainliners as morally and theologically lax... you don’t hear many politicians publicly talk that way, much less suggest all these Christians are really in the grasp of Satan.

Why does anyone vote for this man? Is he really more acceptable than the heretic robot? What do you say about a man who writes...

Conservatives trust families and the ordinary Americans that are formed by them. Liberals don't. They border on disdain for the common man.

I mean, just, wow. You don't have to run attack ads. You just have to repeat the man's words back at him.

....I can only assume this is because he's not a robot, not a bomb, not a nut, and still in the race.

Speaking of the Robot, he's in a real pickle. If he can't win Michigan -- where his father was governor -- he's screwed. The Establishment will panic -- not because they fear Santorum will win, but because they will fear Romney will lose. The problem is he doesn't deserve to win Michigan, because he argued for General Motors and Chrysler to die so that his Wall Street buddies could get their money back. (He says he wanted private equity firms like his own Bain Capital to take them over; the problem is, they were actively pushing for bankruptcy and liquidation, so they could make more money.) It plays perfectly into the theme that the Robot is programmed to ignore anyone with a net worth less than a million dollars... and I'm not so sure that's untrue.

If everything stays fair, and nothing from outside like the European debt crisis intervenes, the Republicans are likely to lose. They can:

1) have a bruising primary battle that ultimately nominates a badly damaged Robot that half the party despises;
2) nominate the Choir Boy and watch Obama win in a landslide on the defense of basic things like not banning contraception;
3) nominate the Bomb and watch him explode;
4) have a brokered convention and do something incredibly stupid like nominate Bush 3.0 that no one really agrees on;
5) give up and nominate the Nut just because he's entertaining and what the hell do they have to lose at this point?

Or, they can cheat. And I don't just mean vote suppression like all the voter ID efforts, or dirty tricks like robocalling to tell people to vote on Wednesday. No, I mean crap like running up the price of gas to screw up the economy, then blaming the President. When a private equity firm leader is running for President.... this stops being quite so wacky a possibility. And by all the usual rules of markets, gas prices should NOT be rising.

Beware, my friends.

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Who are these fuckwits? The Republican Party is really outdoing themselves.

Among liberals in 2004, we thought there was no way that the Democrats could fail to find someone to beat Bush. They picked John Kerry. This election cycle in 2012, my conservative friends thought beating Obama would be a cakewalk. They're poised to pick a guy that is on the complete outer fringes of his party.