McCain The Cad: A Study in Republican Hypocrisy and Why Obama Will (or Should) Win the Family Values

[kpete]

Opinion
McCain The Cad: A Study in Republican Hypocrisy and Why Obama Will (or Should) Win the Family Values Vote
Frank Schaeffer
Tue Jun 10, 4:14 PM ET


Republicans have developed a nasty habit of turning a blind eye to sins that might put them in a bad light. This double standard reaches a new zenith with the right wing/evangelical embrace of McCain. Caligula is in bed with the Church Lady, and the Church Lady is pretending to like it.

If they vote for Senator McCain the evangelical/conservative/Republican base is going to have to reach for a new level of hypocrisy. So are honorable military men and women voters.

In McCain's candidacy the folks who have driven American politics to the sanctimonious moralistic right for 30 years are about to be hoisted on their own petard. As for the military vote, a glaring chunk of McCain's life -- after Vietnam -- is the opposite of honorable.

I am a former life-long Republican, a former evangelical right wing leader. I'm also the proud father of a Marine. In the 70s and 80s, along with my late father Francis Schaeffer, I was a founding instigator of the religious right. I re-registered as an independent out of disgust with Rove, Bush et al. Today I am a dedicated Obama supporter.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20080610/cm_huffpost/106286;_ylt=AsCidy1yl36ftGMdaE5OmFQd6sgF

[On the Road]

1. Son of Francis Schaeffer?

He used to run that compound in Switzerland. A thinking man's evangelical.

I can easily believe that that type of evangelical would switch to Obama. Good good news.

[habitual]

2. kr nt

[enough]

3. This puts the whole thing in the right context, beyond just warmed-over gossip.

[Voltaire99]

4. So, um, like, right wing fundie creeps for Obama?

Kind of desperate, isn't it?