DO WE EVEN DESERVE TO HAVE GOD ON OUR SIDE?

If "God" existed, the answer to that question would be, a priori, unknowable-- so let's not dwell on it. Instead let's dwell on two other things. First, the best of the three top-tier Democrats, John Edwards, just pulled ahead in Iowa polling-- and pulled ahead very strongly. At this point you would have to say he is the favorite to win the caucuses.

And second, at the same time that Edwards is surging, the pathetic pygmies, as Gingrich termed the GOP candidates for president, have been cannibalizing each other on their arcane religionist doctrines, turning off normal Americans who are aghast that the Republican battle for the right to personify a third George Bush term has degenerated into some kind of a battle defining who is more of a religionist nutcase.

Few Democrats are attacking Mike Huckabee, silently praying that the GOP nominates him, since he is clearly the least fit among the breathtakingly unfit for the presidency. And their prayers seem to be working. After questioning the appropriateness of nominating a cult member (Mormon Mitt)-- and then apologizing after the damage was done-- Huckabee has taken to sending not-so-subliminal messages to the bizarre and backward religionist fanatics in Iowa who support him.

The worthless Republican nomination is a complete and utter mess, and even far-right partisans and extremists are finally admitting that there is a good reason why "None of the Above" wins every single preference poll among registered Republicans. "None of the Above" wins because none of the GOP's potential nominees is fit to get anywhere near the White House-- and even the deranged 25% of Americans who still think Bush is doing a good job have come to realize that. The campaign has brought that into clearer and clearer focus, and as each presidential wannabe gets better-known to the public, he is rejected. Huckabee is just the latest to make Republicans want to puke. In the end they may well just shrug their shoulders, hold their noses, convince themselves that the one who disagrees with the GOP on almost everything may be electable-- he isn't-- and just allow Giuliani to ooze into the nomination.


UPDATE: THE NONE OF THE ABOVE MEME HAS TAKEN HOLD in GOPLAND

Longtime Republican Party propagandist Tony Blankley agrees that Republican voters won't be able to settle on which pygmy to make the sacrificial lamb.