G.O.P.: A Lukewarm Christianity?

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Andrew Sullivan gives us an excerpt of an interview between the dancing pundit, Tucker Carlson, and Chris Matthews, in which Carlson gives out a strong line for the idea that Republican leaders are really only playing cynical politics when they push Evangelical issues for that base, which is presumably being brought out by the Foley scandal, I guess. Sullivan seems to think that this is only brutal honesty.

I am a bit skeptical, and Tucker Carlson is not exactly our era's Walter Cronkite. We only see these Republican politicos on TV and in the news for the most part, but a lot of those Republicans have struck me as being disturbingly sincere when they pimp God into our lives and try to chase gays out. I would hate to imagine a more forceful prosecution of those fundamentalist goals!

( interview excerpt )

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G.O.P.: A Lukewarm Christianity?

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Andrew Sullivan gives us an excerpt of an interview between the dancing pundit, Tucker Carlson, and Chris Matthews, in which Carlson gives out a strong line for the idea that Republican leaders are really only playing cynical politics when they push Evangelical issues for that base, which is presumably being brought out by the Foley scandal, I guess. Sullivan seems to think that this is only brutal honesty.

I am a bit skeptical, and Tucker Carlson is not exactly our era's Walter Cronkite. We only see these Republican politicos on TV and in the news for the most part, but a lot of those Republicans have struck me as being disturbingly sincere when they pimp God into our lives and try to chase gays out. I would hate to imagine a more forceful prosecution of those fundamentalist goals!

( interview excerpt )

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Democrats Still Know How to Lose

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Just three weeks to go, and things couldn’t be worse for the Republican Loyalists. Really, have you listened to the AM talk radio this week? We haven’t heard such gloom from that crowd since the exit polls said Kerry won in ‘04.

But the GOP has a secret weapon: Democrats. Or, more specifically, Democrats who say stuff. Kentucky Democrat and congressional candidate Mike Weaver wins today’s prize for describing Republican pedophiles as “very liberal.”

-- Wonkette

If anybody can blow this kind of political advantage going into the home stretch of a campaign, it is our Democrats.

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Democrats Still Know How to Lose

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Just three weeks to go, and things couldn’t be worse for the Republican Loyalists. Really, have you listened to the AM talk radio this week? We haven’t heard such gloom from that crowd since the exit polls said Kerry won in ‘04.

But the GOP has a secret weapon: Democrats. Or, more specifically, Democrats who say stuff. Kentucky Democrat and congressional candidate Mike Weaver wins today’s prize for describing Republican pedophiles as “very liberal.”

-- Wonkette

If anybody can blow this kind of political advantage going into the home stretch of a campaign, it is our Democrats.

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