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It’s time to get out the tinfoil hat polish again as Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians are gathering to express their gospel of hate, fear, bigotry, greed and racism fostered, not by the real Jesus, who represented the exact opposite, but by the Jesus they invented themselves: Republican Supply-side Jesus.  And in the midst of all this is the Republican VP candidate, Paul Ryan.

In politics, as in war, the truth is often a casualty. But in the presidential election of 2012, the truth is targeted for assassination, placed on a hit list by the Romney-Ryan campaign and the Republican right. 

There’s nothing random about it. That was made clear today by Rep. Paul Ryan, Wis., the Republican vice presidential candidate, in a speech delivered to the Values Voter Summit, the annual gathering convened by the FRC Action, the political arm of the Family Research Council…

…If Ryan’s remarks sound mild compared to those made by Romney earlier in the week, that’s because his speech was teed up by the poisonous rhetoric of former Reagan administration official William Bennett, who also made much of the fact that Ryan was his former intern. 

But once he dispensed with the adorable image of Paul Ryan making Xeroxes and running errands for his high-rolling boss, Bennett drew the sum total of his mendacious pomposity to accuse the administration of deeds that would almost amount to treason, were they remotely true. Secretary Clinton, he said, "wonder[ed] aloud whether…our own constitutional freedoms go just a bit too far." 

That would indeed be a horrible thing — if it had ever happened. But it hadn’t. 

Bennett went on: "A Muslim mob brutalizes and murders an American ambassador, a representative of the United States of America, to disgrace him, and to disgrace us. They would murder us, and brutalize us, too — all of us. And our government reacts by shuddering and shaking, and wondering that the consequences of our First Amendment, that blames an inconsequential fool of a filmmaker with a paltry influence, for the venom unleashed in another part of the world. God help us. God help us." 

Bennett read Romney’s statement verbatim, and went on to fault the media for the fallout Romney suffered. "Most of the press jumped in on Romney to kill this truth in the womb — something it is well-practiced at," Bennett said. 

Romney running-mate Paul Ryan did not take issue with a single bit of Bennett’s introduction… [emphasis added]

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Rachel Maddow had more details about the convention and assorted Republican conspiracies on the current crisis.

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I found the terrorist who was an aid to Pat Buchannan at the time when he was supposedly a terrorist most entertaining.  Now. if that is not insane enough for you, Republicans have at long last come up with an explanation for all Obama’s ills.  You’re going to love this one!

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Dang! Kenyan, Muslim, Nazi, Socialist AND Gay?!!? Who would have thunk it!! 😉

It seems that voters without values prefer candidates without value.

I have long said that the religious beliefs and practices of Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians have far more in common with the Pharisees and Sadducees of Jesus’ day than they do with the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.  That is why I find it so frustrating that authentic Christians are often painted with the came brush as these hypocrites.  Frank Brunt pointed out this contrast extremely well.

What I find most fascinating about Michele Bachmann — and there are many, many more where she came from — is that she presents herself as a godly woman, humbly devoted to her Christian faith. I’d like to meet that god, and I’d like to understand that Christianity.

Does it call for smearing people on the basis of flimsy conspiracy theories? That’s what Bachmann just did to Huma Abedin, an aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, by essentially suggesting she might be a mole for the Muslim Brotherhood.

Does it endorse scaring young women away from immunizations that could spare them serious illness? Bachmann did that during her memorable presidential campaign, when she blithely drew an unsubstantiated link between a vaccine for the human papillomavirus and mental retardation.

Does it encourage gratuitously divisive condemnations of Barack Obama as “anti-American,” one of many incendiary phrases in her attacks against him in 2008? And does it compel a war against homosexuality waged with the language and illogic she uses?

She has said that gay men and lesbians are dysfunctional products of abuse and agents of “sexual anarchy,” and when the singer and songwriter Melissa Etheridge was battling breast cancer years ago, Bachmann helpfully chimed in: “This may be an opportunity for her now to be open to some spiritual things, now that she is suffering with that physical disease. She is a lesbian.”

Bachmann’s concept of Christian love brims with hate, and she has a deep satchel of stones to throw. From what kind of messiah did she learn that?… [emphasis added]

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To answer his question, she learned if from Republican Supply-side Jesus.  He is not the real Jesus.  He was invented by Republican Theocons to justify their perverted gospel of greed, hate, and control.

The real Jesus focused on helping those in need and accepting people as is, as do authentic Christians today.

The only difference between Bachmann and most of the Republican leadership is a matter of degree, a small matter at that.