Peter ("Iraqi Blood On His Hands") Beinart On The GOP’s Phony Diversity

The GOP’s basic problem is that many Republicans equate Christianity, or at least Judeo-Christianity, with Americanism.

Christ on two crutches, the Goofy Old Party has more than a few basic problems.

We understand that politicians on rare occasions pander, & several have stuck to their "principles," yet P.B. doesn't doubt these battlefield conversions:

There’s no reason to doubt the sincerity of their conversions. But both also seem aware that maintaining the non-Western religious traditions of their birth would have imperiled their political careers. In 2007, when Congress overwhelmingly passed a resolution recognizing the Hindu and Sikh festival of Diwali, Jindal abstained. Before running for governor, Haley noted that her family attended a Sikh Temple as well as a Methodist Church, but today she studiously avoids any reference to being born Sikh and as the campaign has progressed, her website has been updated to stress in increasingly emphatic terms her devoting to Jesus Christ. That’s hardly surprising given that the co-chairman of one of her Republican gubernatorial rivals circulated an email claiming that Haley “ can’t seem to make up her mind about her faith.”