Drooling Fucking Idiots Who Want To Tell You How To Live (Not That You Stupid Yanquis Couldn't Use Some Advice On That)

Traitor Oliver North, serial adulterer Newt Gingrich & campaign fund abuser Mike Huckabee brought their version of Christianity & the Three Stooges to a church in Virginia Beach, VA, recently, where they doubled down on the gawd-squawk. You were expecting differently?

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee urged Christians to get involved in politics to preserve the presence of religion in American life. "I think this is one of the most critical moments in American history," Gingrich said. "We are living in a period where we are surrounded by paganism."

Sixth-century Newt, surrounded by pagans. Here in the 21st century, we haven't noticed that many, but Newt & Huck are doubtless concerned about their ever-shrinking base of fools, fanatics, right-wing domestic extremists & bitter guns & gawd clingers. (Doesn't Glen Beck preach that "we surround them," them being "us?" Organize your talking points, gents.)

Gingrich and Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, argued the rights of Americans stem from God and to ignore that connection is perilous. The two were among several speakers, including former U.S. Senate candidate Oliver North, at the three-hour "Rediscovering God in America" event. The event was closed to reporters but was broadcast live on God.TV, an evangelical Web site.

The continuing religious traditions of obscurantism, suppression of speech & opposition to democracy. Not to mention this "rights of Americans stem from God" horse-pucky. Why repeat the rational, true, common-sense rebuttal to this crap? They're never changing their story; if they insist on debating the issues or whatever the hell from a supernatural basis, there's really no debate to be had.

"I am not a citizen of the world," said Gingrich, who was first elected to the U.S. House from Georgia in 1978 and served as speaker from 1995 to 1999. "I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with our creator."

Foolish anti-theist us, we thought being born in the United Snakes (under the pesky to 'wingers 14th Amendment) was what made Gingrich a citizen of the United Snakes. But why would he go w/ that, when it can be made mysterious & spooky? Recent convert-to-Catholicism Newt is swinging the censer here, covering the real w/ a cloud of stench & smoke. "Big Idea Men" like Newton regard reality as a mere speed-bump slowing their race to destiny.

And let's add two words to that: "I am a citizen of the United States because only in the United States does citizenship start with belief in our creator." Think about that. Citizenship for bible-thumpers only. Huck goes in that direction too, urging:

his listeners to get engaged in public life or their views won't matter. "Politicians aren't interested in pleasing the public," he said. "They're interested in pleasing voters."

Or those who count the votes, right, Hucklebee? And fewer votes make it so much easier to count them. Or not.

Huckabee told the audience he was disturbed to hear President Barack Obama say during his speech in Cairo, Egypt, on Thursday that one nation shouldn't be exalted over another.* The notion that we are just one of many among equals is nonsense," Huckabee said. The United States is a "blessed" nation, he said, calling American revolutionaries' defeat of the British empire "a miracle from God's hand." The same kind of miracle, he said, led California voters to approve Proposition 8, which overturned a state law legalizing same-sex marriages.

The potential envisioned here by these giants of the right? A nation that, if led by a loud & public-about-it Xian president who was elected by Real Americans, could do no wrong & probably should be ruling the world, no matter how many Christian soldiers must die to achieve that goal. Not explicitly stated, no, but the implication is certainly there. Then think of the fear-mongering these same buffoons attempt vis-á-vis the "socialist agenda" or whatever bizarre scenarios other right-wing extremist leaders have imagined Barack Obama to be cooking up.

You know damn well these people will kill for their theocracy. Does anyone believe that Obama is planning a blood-bath so the Feds can start making Trabants to force down America's throat?

*Double Standard Dep't.: Nations or good ol' boys, those Republicans sure are good at it. Ask Newt when he's trading up for a new model carwife.