The Washington Republicans Have No Use For the Far Right Radical Evangelicals Either
OK, you know things are getting wild and woolly and that the lunatics indeed are running the asylum when I quote both Andrew Sullivan and not quite-so-out-of-the-closet-but-nonetheless-quite gay Tucker Carlson, and all wrapped around a Chris Matthews program!
Here, entitled The Republican Contradiction:<blockquote>Tucker Carlson was brutally honest on the Chris Matthews' Show about the dysfunction and hypocrisy at the core of the current GOP:
CARLSON: It goes deeper than that though. The deep truth is that the elites in the Republican Party have pure contempt for the evangelicals who put their party in power. Everybody in ...
MATTHEWS: How do you know that? How do you know that?
CARLSON: Because I know them. Because I grew up with them. Because I live with them. they live on my street. Because I live in Washington, and I know that everybody in our world has contempt for the evangelicals. And the evangelicals know that, and they're beginning to learn that their own leaders sort of look askance at them and don't share their values.
MATTHEWS: So this gay marriage issue and other issues related to the gay lifestyle are simply tools to get elected?
CARLSON: That's exactly right. It's pandering to the base in the most cynical way, and the base is beginning to figure it out.
All this simply confirms what I said since the first day we heard of Boy King George II: he's no Christian, compassionate or otherwise. But then, some of the worst of these evangelicals (Dobson, Falwell, et al) are no Christians either.
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