Waking Up and Smelling the Coffee

The Evangelicals are starting to realize that hitching their wagon to one political party has been a huge mistake.

No fucking shit, folks. It took you this long to figure that out? For tens of millions of Americans, the Evangelical movement is nothing more than another special interest political grouping, like AARP. The Evangelicals hooked up with a bunch of economic and ecological rapists and plunderers and they did become the useful idiots of the pirates. I doubt very much if the economic agenda or the environmental agenda of the Bush Administration and the other thieves on the Right are in the interests of 98% of those calling themselves Evangelicals, but they fell into lockstep like a bunch of good little Germans.

The kicker has to be Dubya the Inept, a man who is a self-professed Evangelical and whose actions have largely been as far away from the tenets of Jesus as it is possible to get without morphing into Joseph Stalin. Dubya has frittered away eight years in combating climate change and has probably squandered the last chance we had for addressing the problem without wrenching economic dislocation. His overarching philosophy of "whatever is good for the oil industry is good for the USA" has led us into becoming the world's most powerful pariah state. To benefit the rich, Bush has taken a hammer to the middle class and the poor.

For a great percentage of this country, George Bush is the public face of an Evangelical politician. No wonder they are runing as far as they can from him.