Smear Factor

Silly WASPs.

I don’t think the controversy is entirely incidental. Consider: people like Bachmann wear their religion on the sleeve and explicitly reject the notion that our governing institutions should be islands of secularism that leave religious matters to the individual churches, temples and synagogues and the consciences of the people who attend them.

Given that this is the case, I think Catholic voters have an interest in knowing that Bachmann’s church holds to the docrine that the Pope is the Anti-Christ.*

*Funny how there have been over 250 Anti-Christs over the years, but not one Second Coming.

I like the “Swamp Thang” comics.

@Serolf Divad: Oh, I don’t know. I think most of us have come at least twice, no?

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut:
/rimshot/
She’s here all week, folks!
/tip the veal

@Manchu: these people are not WASPs, whose only real religious convictions are scotch in winter, gin in summer, and no wearing white after Labor Day. Mentioning God is considered tacky among my people.

I dunno. I think the whole fairness thing is a good point, but I can’t help but agree with Serolf here. In the case of Obama, it’s not like he touts his religious beliefs every chance he gets. I mean, don’t get me wrong, he’ll absolutely jump on a chance to say he’s a God-fearing Christian when asked, but people like Bachmann (and, y’know, her husband) use the phrase “God’s will” like Giuliani does “9/11.” If they didn’t have such a nasty habit of using religion as a political tool, I’d say Nojo was completely right, but seeing as that’s not nearly the case, I’m a little on the fence here. Do I think it should matter? Absolutely not. But I can’t really shake the feeling that it does :/

@karen marie has her eyes tight shut: Sometimes in the space of 15 minutes, even.