Go, Jimmy, Go!!!, or, How Focus on the Family won it for the Dems

As usual, I rely on a blogger at CNN for all my information, which, obviously, is like relying on Judas  to show up with a nail remover.  But still, it's more entertaining than those dry folks over at the BBC, less spurious than the headlines at NPR, and at least it's not Fox News...

And while we sit here pounding the Clinton-Obama double kick drum, there is still that stinging feeling that, hey, shouldn't we be talking more about John McCain's foibles than those of the Democrat Party's two nearly indistiguishable heroes?

Well guess what, you beautiful Dems?  You can keep fighting, because we've got an unlikely ally in the War against Red: Dr. James Dobson.

We all know that Dobson's version of the Republican Party is the one that cherishes the lives of Unborn Children and wants to "protect traditional family values."  Yeah, and maybe allow every American to carry a deadly weapon without restriction (to protect the babies from the gays, I suppose...).  

Evidently, Dobson's GOP isn't the one with which we've become familiar.  Honestly, I've been trying to reduce the current (Bush) and future (McCain) GOP policy down to a few witty zingers for the last 20 minutes, and to be honest, I really don't even know how to do it.  I have no idea what the New GOP policy is, but I don't see too many Republicans (All Huckabees notwithstanding) who are standing up for the Dobson version of the GOP that keeps most Right-wing Christians voting.

I grew up in a Conservative Christian home, and Focus on the Family was a constant mainstay on our radio.  I listened to his radio show, read his children's adventure books and watched the videos.  And as a Midwestern Christian Child, I believed that Republicanism was about protecting babies, and that was about it.  Democrats were murderous scum, and Jesus loved Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.  Bill Clinton was, in fact, the harbinger of Antichrist, and a sure sign of the end times.

For perspective, I also believed I would see John Lennon in Heaven, because music so good could only be a product of Almighty God.

The W Administration has been successful in one clear regard: the complete alienation of the Christian Right.  Two terms of Iraq and NCLB, and the Christians are wondering why Roberts and Alito haven't overturned Roe v. Wade yet.  They're wondering why, when 36 states have passed gay marriage bans, courts are overturning them as unconstitutional.  And they're starting to realize that there is no love in the GOP for the compassionate mandates of the Bible that we take care of the poor and destitute.  

In a word, the Evangelical Church has been hoodwinked.  The Republicans don't really care about the Christian Right anymore.  Arrogance, to a degree; it has been a constant assumption that Christian = One in the Bag for McCain.  But after the Bush Debacle, Christians are starting to see through the guise and start seeing what Republicans actually care about: Money, more money, warmongering, oil, and more money.  And guns (to protect the babies from the gays).  

So enter Dr. Dobson, who, thanks to his lack of self-declaration, enjoys Prophet-Apostle status among Fundamentalists and Evangelicals.  His opinion: McCain can't "unite" conservatives, because McCain only represents the actual Republican Party Agenda, rather than the Christian Party agenda. 

And from that perspective, he's right.  He's the one who threatened to take all the Christians away if Rudy Giuliani got the nomination.  He reticently supported Mitt Romney (after all, he's a MORMON...from MASSACHUSETTS!); naturally, he went head-over-heels for Mike Huckabee.  Huckabee was what I believed a Republican Candidate should be when I was 8 years old.  Loves Jesus, hates abortion.  John McCain is not a "Fundamentalist-Friendly" candidate.  Sure, he's "Pro-life" (I don't believe him) and "Pro-family" (whatever that means these days), but that's not his primary focus, and it never will be.  It's lip service to pander to Christian voters, and hey!  Guess what, world?!  Christians aren't quite as stupid as you think!!!

Dr. Dobson, keep on reminding us how the party is splitting, because true followers of Christ have no business supporting the Republican Machine anymore.  Find someone who's pro-life and wants to feed, clothe, and house the poor, give all they have, who wants to heal the outcast, and love their neighbors and their enemies.  Who will give to Caesar that which is Caesar's.*

In the meantime, a Leftish government might actually get a stab at running this nation for a minute, and we can see what happens.

*Bring on the onslaught, I dare you.