Is there anything more disgusting than the GOP candidates' scurrying to kiss Christian Right rings to certify their contender bona fides? Watching Romney, McCain, and Giuliani gyrate to the music (Contemporary Christian, of course), makes me want to gag. McCain, in the last couple of weeks, has visited Seattle's Discovery Institute, the inaptly named think tank in Seattle, which promotes the creationist intelligent design theory (a theory also inaptly named). This, after visiting Pope Jerry the First at uncivil Liberty University last year.
I exhort our democratic candidates to refrain from kissing rings as much as they can. Don't rush to meet with folks who claim to represent large, diverse groups of people but only represent tiny, monolithic sects within the party (for every GOP Jerry, we have a Dem Jesse to match). Fortunately, we don't have a faction as noxious as the Christian Right, nor as fun (no meth-fueled romps in Denver hotels). But we do have the capacity to damage ourselves by pledging fealty to the more extreme individuals in the party.
Spoken by a true extremist, ironically enough.
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