Rand Paul has no understanding of medieval history (BOOM!)

At a recent public event, Senator Rand Paul (Republican, Kentucky) told a crowd that from “Boston to Zanzibar, there’s a worldwide war on Christianity,” which our government is propping up. The way the followers of Christ are under attack today, Paul says, it’s “almost as if we lived in the Middle Ages.’’

Um… the “Middle Ages” is a term used to describe Europe from approximately 476-1350 CE. During that time, Christianity reigned supreme in Europe. It was not a time that Christians were under attack. The Middle Ages were a time when Christians were ON the attack against unbelievers!

Or to put it more simply: Rand Paul, the great mind of the Republican Party, don’t know shit.

Well, THAT'S a bad argument.

Story here.

*chuckle*

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"Hey guys, hurry up. That guy from the pet shop's coming, and he wants his fishbowls back."

E.W. Jackson is the Small Mind of the Day

"Oh, Oh, oh I do believe it. I said it because I believe that the Democrat party has become an anti-God party, I think it's an anti-life party, I think it's an anti-family party. And these are all things I think Christians hold to very dearly."

—E.W. Jackson, Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, Virginia

Christian voters believe in redemption (for Republican politicians)

Courtesy of the New York Times, let’s look at two politicians who, in a decent world, would not be in politics at all:

1. David Vitter is a dyed-in-the-woolen breeches conservative from Louisiana. He’s also someone committed a “very serious sin” involving prostitutes six years ago.

In 2010, he ran for the senate against Charlie Melancon, a former Democratic congressman. Today, Vitter is the senator. In exit polls, he beat Mr. Melancon among white women by a 54-point margin.

2. Dr. Scott DesJarlais is a Republican congressman from Tennessee. In 2010, and again in 2012, sordid details of his past came to light. They are too lengthy to enumerate here, but included legal problems and multiple affairs with former patients. One of these women said Dr. DesJarlais pushed her into getting an abortion.

Eric Stewart was the Democrat who ran against DesJarlais. Why does he think that Republicans voted for this blackhearted scoundrel? “Voters talk a lot about hypocrisy but they don’t vote based on it.”

Yeah, but WHY? Some posit that religious conservatives just love a good comeback-from-sin story: “Where there is a large Christian voting bloc, they believe in redemption.”

A more likely explanation: Religious Republicans can count some diehard partisan, hypocritical sumbitches amongst themselves.