After hearing the anticipated speech from Romney to his social conservative electorate, in order to redeem himself from any religious gray areas that might still cloud the already irrational mindset of his numinous sheep any further, I cringed at the words. “Freedom requires religion.” At that very instance, I swear I could hear the collective rustling sounds of our Founding Fathers twisting in their graves, yet Mitt still received an ovation from his flock of delusional constituents. I recoil in disdain when I hear the fabrication and misrepresentation of what this country was built on. This country was “not” built on Christianity at all. At the very most, it was scarcely influenced by liberal monotheistic principles by the way of deism and agnosticism. We mustn’t forget that our founding fathers were rebels who fled from a monarchy in order to establish new freedoms of speech and religion. It would be doubtful that these men would flaunt their reverent belief system in order to influence their balloters.
Then to my astonishment, I learn that Mike Huckabee, the former evangelical minister, has risen to the top of this proverbial heap of cataclysmic theocrats. I have absolutely no problem with politicians being religious as long as they keep their religion disconnected from political agendas. It was John F. Kennedy who in a speech to the Houston Ministerial Association said, “I believe in America where the separation of church and state is absolute,” only after being taunted by the conservative Pharisees of America who attacked his Catholic beliefs for no apparent reason. Kennedy never showed signs of using or hiding behind his religious beliefs to gain acceptance amongst the religious sect of our country. Yet Romney had the audacity to unsuccessfully and shamelessly emulate a president of real integrity (there goes that rustling sound again).
It doesn’t stop there. It only begins. These conscientious politicians from the far-right boundaries of the universe have extreme and intolerant commentators from FOX news and talk radio to reiterate this insanity through repetitious propaganda using the righteousness of Christianity and military invasion in the same sentences. Somewhere along the line of American mainstream political conversion, the Religious Right’s theologies invaded our once secular central government. The left became the far-left fringe while right wing politicians are now considered moderate or centrists in the minds of these pseudo-conservatives. They somehow consider themselves patriotic instead of neurotic for faithfully following their disgraced commander-in-chief over the edge. It has now become un-American to take a stand for “the people” of our country who refuse to conform to the neurosis and irrational fears of Isamo-fascism, the Axis of Evil, and the War on Terror. People, it’s time to wake up to this ongoing insanity of unnecessary intervention.
All of this is enough to turn middle class republicans into whining liberal democrats come Nov. 2008 (though they would never admit it). The voter turnout should be at record high levels. The integrity and strength of the GOP has diminished. No one seems to know what the definition of conservatism is any more. The only “true” conservative running under the republican label is being cast out and re-labeled a crackpot from within his own base. The strength and support of the Democratic Party has grown both ideologically as well as financially. It would take nothing less then a miracle for a republican legislative, judicial, and executive branch to survive after their disgraceful and deceitful exhibition over the last 7 years. Maybe—just maybe--- true Americanism will be reborn in January of 2009 (God willing).