"If HE Wants a Say in Who Gets to be A Judge, He Shoud Run for a Senate Seat!!!"

So said the fictional Repub nominee for the presidency on TV's West Wing, about some fictional, pesky, self-appointed wing nut Christian Con Advocate.

Now if ONLY the real GOP had the balls to say that, and mean it??

But hey, I have been known to spend too much of my time in my fantasy world.

Meantime, in the real world, I really find it revolting how the Bushies can have Rove give assurances to the likes of Dobson, in secret meetings, and not be condemned for exactly what it was: Pandering (attempted at least), and Placating an "interest group" that has a clear agenda to appoint activist judges who will overturn precedent.

Sometimes being an American is like a very bad Acid Trip, or Case of Food Poisioning (take your pick.)

Anyway . . . after I started this post, the memory (of the history) of how Jack Kennedy caught some hell as some people were worried about whether a Catholic would be too easily swayed by the Pope, popped in my head. Now even if I suspect Bush is a liar and a fraud, both in his christianity and how he deals with the Religious Right Wing, I think the VERY IDEA of the White House engaging in the PLACATING of RELIGIOUS LEADERS, on a SCOTUS nomination is far more dastardly, heinous, and wicked, than anything likely that Kennedy would have done, when his religion was questioned, as something that might have HAD HIM AT THE BECK AND CALL AND UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF PARTICULAR RELIGIOUS PERSONS.


Hyprocisy, thy name is "Moral Majority" (and that Majority part is a LIE. So is the Moral part, for far too much and far too many of those people who consider themselves part of that "movement.")