Crazy Day In The Endorsement Universe: McCain Gets Al Qaeda & The KKK, Obama Scores The World's Most Popular Evangelist, Dr. K.A. Paul

And Sir Bob Geldorf, who helped me sneak into a London club in 1977 or '78 to see The Damned, long before he was a Sir slobbered all over Bush's ass. Look, I am certain that McCain was at least somewhat uncomfortable when Sarah Palin ran in, breathless, to tell him the great news about the Ku Klux Klan. It's even worse than being endorsed by all those crooked, snake-handling, anti-Catholic preachers a few months ago. (And it isn't just McCain the KKK has endorsed. McCain's northern California stand-in, Tom McClintock is a longtime KKK endorsee.) Is it worse than the Washington Post's report today that al-Qaeda is praying for a McCain victory too?

Al-Qaeda is watching the U.S. stock market's downward slide with something akin to jubilation, with its leaders hailing the financial crisis as a vindication of its strategy of crippling America's economy through endless, costly foreign wars against Islamist insurgents.

And at least some of its supporters think Sen. John McCain is the presidential candidate best suited to continue that trend.

"Al-Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election," said a commentary posted Monday on the extremist Web site al-Hesbah, which is closely linked to the terrorist group. It said the Arizona Republican would continue the "failing march of his predecessor," President Bush.

Spencer Ackerman was on a McCain campaign call yesterday and he wrote that the lobbyists who are driving the bus are freaked out and panic-stricken.

And while the KKK and al-Qaeda were banging the drums for McCain, Houston-based evangelical K.A. Paul came out for Obama.

Dr. Paul, a long time spiritual advisor to many Republicans leaders and the world of big business, said there were three main reasons for his endorsement of Democrat Senator Obama.

"Number one, speaking from an evangelical perspective, the current administration, I believe, has delayed the second coming of Jesus. Since the Iraq war, missionaries have been forced out of many countries, their work unfinished. As it says in Matthew 24:14, "the gospel will be preached in the whole world." The Bush administration's Iraq war policy has been in direct contradiction to Matthew.

"Secondly, as I travel around the globe, it is apparent that America's image is at historic lows. Senator Obama can change this trend and help restore our country to where we are once again respected around the world.

"And my third reason is that four more years of Bush-like economics, which I believe Senator McCain represents, will turn our current crisis into a full blown economic disaster. Senator Obama can restore confidence and vibrancy to our economy."

I don't know much about him but Adrian Rogers, former president of the Southern Baptist Convention says he was "raised up by God. It is likely that he has preached the Gospel to more people face to face than any other living evangelist. God's hand is upon him in a mighty way."

Other endorsements-- and virtual withdrawals of endorsements-- were even more stunning. The NRCC, whose job is to keep Republicans in Congress and get new ones in, is so fed up with Bachmann's big mouth and extremist statements-- yes, she's at it again-- that they've pulled out of MN-06 entirely, leaving the crazed right-wing psychopath on her own.

And speak of crazed extremist psychopaths, the NRCC is following up their abandonment of Bachmann with an abandonment of another loser, Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO). They wasted $800,000 on her race, which they had to borrow, and she just keeps falling further behind Democratic challenger Betsy Markey. The three polls in the district show Markey beating her pretty decisively, 43- 36%, 50- 43% and, the most recent, 47- 38%. Looks like Musgrave will be another victim of GOP failure, her own extremism, and McCain's toxic coattails.



Of course, when it comes to teh crazy, it's only New Jersey fringe lunatic Scott Garrett who can compete with Bachmann and Musgrave (and Mean Jean). And yesterday northern New Jersey residents went to their mailboxes and were confronted by an outlandish, even sociopathic, claim from Garrett that Dennis Shulman, his Democratic opponent, is paling around with terrorists. Shulman is a blind professor, author and psychologist and a distinguished rabbi and devoted friend of Israel's. But crazy Garrett thinks he can persuade NJ-05 voters, by showing pictures he photoshopped to insinuate he is friends with Hamas, that Dennis would jeopardize Israel. The man, like McCain and Rove, knows no shame; he's off the deep end. The GOP has also given up on extremists Joe Knollenberg in Michigan and Tom Feeney in Florida.

OK, let's take a short step back from the dangerously insane to the merely dishonest and deceptive. Yes, Gordon Smith territory. He went from being the most dependable Bush rubber stamp on the West Coast and chairman of McCain's Oregon campaign to trying to imply to low information voters that he's part of the Obama team. Now he's running around denouncing McCain for his vicious negative robocalls even though he's spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on his own vicious negative robocalls against Jeff Merkley-- and he's paying the same sleazy firm to do it that McCain has been using against Obama!

And rounding out the endorsements, some gays endorsed McCain, Mike Rogers is probably not asking these questions in preparation of endorsing Mitch McConnell, and Bullwinkle... well, Mr. Fish:


I wonder if McCain will ever admit he made a mistake when he picked her, the way George H. W. Bush did with Quayle. This MSNBC interview looks like it might not be so long before that happens: