GOP Religious Whack Jobs Choose Blackwell for RNC Chair
Ken Blackwell is gathering his support for RNC Chair, it is heavily skewed towards Radical Right Wing Christian Clerics. As a Democrat who wishes Republicans to wander in the wilderness for a long time, I am glad to see Blackwell, backed by extremist Christian mullahs, get the job. But, hey, I’m biased.
I love this. Ken Blackwell, who is largely responsible as Secretary of State in Ohio in 2004 for George Bush’s win, thus responsible for the continuation of Bush’s disastrous Republican policies, is reaping his reward from the 24%ers who still support George Bush. More particularly, he’s getting the support for RNC Chair from the biggest of the Radical Right Wing Christian Clerics, according to a report by Ben Smith of Politico. Here’s a few of Blackwell’s extremist Christian supporters:
Phyllis Schlafly, President, Eagle Forum (I once met her nephew by marriage. He was so ashamed of Phyllis he called her his “uncle’s wife” and would not refer to her as his aunt.)
James C. Dobson, Founder, Chairman and Grand Poobah, Focus on the Family (Didn’t his organization just lay off a whole bunch of workers? Why would anyone want the endorsement of such a failed enterprise?)
Dr. Ronald Godwin, Vice Chancellor, Liberty University, who was instrumental in popularizing Syun Mung Moon in the US — hey, that’s some claim to fame, working for two whack jobs, Moon AND Falwell!
Tony Perkins, President, Family Research Council. (Did they ever get this guy for those serial murders?)
Tim LaHaye, Founder and President, Tim LaHaye Ministries, the man most responsible, probably, for promoting the notion of the “End Times,” and thus responsible, in part, for how that notion helped twist the Bush Administration policies.
Hey, this is a whole bunch of the extremist Christian right wing of the party supporting a black man, Ken Blackwell. Perhaps it is because Blackwell was such a good and obedient soldier in 2004? whatever, the real surprising this is that there are a couple folks one wouldn’t expect to see on this list. Sure, Pat Toomey of Club for Growth pretends to be a fiscal conservative, but he’s a religious whack job from way back. Steve Forbes is the one who seems out of place to me. Hey, the man had a bisexual father, didn’t he, and famously so. How comfortable could Forbes, who has never in the past cozied up to the Christian extremists, be?
Of course, the RNC Chair race isn’t over, but as a Democrat I am pleased to see the Christian whack job wing of the Republican Party coalesce behind Blackwell, who will be the divisive presence, and likely incompetent, too, that we wish on the Republicans.
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The thing is, party chairman is sort of a nothing job to reward faithful but dull party loyalists. Blackwell won’t screw up much because there won’t be much to screw up.
Coming the same week as Roland Burris’ appointment to the Senate, this is a heartning sign of racial progress. Black mediocrities now have the chance to advance as far politically as white ones.