Forget Obama! Kathleen Parker just made herself the No.1 hatee by the Religulous Rethugs!

[Are_grits_groceries]

Giving Up on God
As Republicans sort out the reasons for their defeat, they likely will overlook or dismiss the gorilla in the pulpit.

Three little letters, great big problem: G-O-D.

I'm bathing in holy water as I type.

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party and will continue to afflict and marginalize its constituents if reckoning doesn't soon cometh.
<snip>
Short break as writer ties blindfold and smokes her last cigarette.

Which is to say, the GOP has surrendered its high ground to its lowest brows. In the process, the party has alienated its non-base constituents, including other people of faith (those who prefer a more private approach to worship), as well as secularists and conservative-leaning Democrats who otherwise might be tempted to cross the aisle.

Here's the deal, 'pubbies: Howard Dean was right.
<snip>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/18/AR2008111802886.html

Oooooooooo! She better get a guard and a good disguise.
This is like challenging rabid pitbulls!

[Fumesucker]

1. ROFL....

Suffice it to say, the Republican Party is largely comprised of white, married Christians. Anyone watching the two conventions last summer can't have missed the stark differences: One party was brimming with energy, youth and diversity; the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting.

With the exception of Miss Alaska, of course.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. Parker has been the only one to really call them out!

[Faryn Balyncd]

19. How about former Sen. (UN ambassador) John Danforth?

http://www.witherspoonsociety.org/2006/danforth_faith_and_politics.htm

[Are_grits_groceries]

20. Props to him!

However, in light of the Palin mania on the loose, she has been the one
on the firing line now.

[proud2BlibKansan]

28. But Danforth was present and introduced Sarah Palin at her rallies in MO

He is no saint.

[AnneD]

23. The best ROFLPMP line......

"Let's do pray that God shows Alaska's governor the door." Referring to running in 2012.

Priceless hysterical observations and dead on to boot. Hope they listen.

[Window]

32. God had better slam the door in her face. Remember, she said if there's a crack

in the door, she's going to plow right on through it.

"Let's do pray that God shows Alaska's governor the door."

[TexasObserver]

3. remember when that maverick GOP senator called them out years ago?

John something?

[ProfessorGAC]

4. She's Been Under Fire For The Last 6 Weeks

She shows up in the Chicago Trib, and she has been savaged by the radical right because she didn't approve of Palin.

So, this is just more of the same theme for her, and she is probably getting used to having her own kind turn on her.
The Professor

[Are_grits_groceries]

10. I know.

This time I think she really upped the ante though.
She used language Like "oogedy boogedy GOP" and called
them the Depends party. She sliced and diced almost every
segment.

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Could Be

Yeah, this column was pretty harsh, but i honestly think it is a reaction to the fact that her earlier columns elicited such vitriol. So, she's getting a little payback. However, she did refer to Palin in some very unflattering terms. This isn't the first time she called names!

But, on your basic point, i completely agree.
GAC

[Are_grits_groceries]

22. Point taken. We are in the same pew to use an ironic phrase. nt

[Fumesucker]

5. I sent her an email...

Wished her luck and told her I was buying popcorn futures.. :)

[shadowknows69]

6. I think the RIght is about to have a "crisis of faith"

I think the true zealots are going to be seeing a lot of their fellow flock start to worry more about the here and now and the afterlife not so much. It's easy to have faith when you can feed your family.

[sendero]

7. Its clear...

.. that god has punished the false christians in America by making them have an uppity negro president.

[NNN0LHI]

8. oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP

:fistbump:

[fasttense]

9. Seems that God has decided that Republicons should not

be in control of the US federal government. God seems to have supported the liberals this time.

[fishnfla]

11. Damn I cant pick that article up from any link

even their website

God is angry at me too

[Window]

33. I wanted to read the entire article too, but I had to join and answer a

bunch of questions.

[sendero]

12. Not only have they lost influence...

... but the "abundant life" prosperity pimp preachers are about to find their flocks straying as god is not paying up as promised.

[66 dmhlt]

13. In Op-Ed with the word "oogedy-boogedy" in it is probably worth reading

From the above linked article:

To be more specific, the evangelical, right-wing, oogedy-boogedy branch of the GOP is what ails the erstwhile conservative party....

[tanyev]

14. Yowza. She'd better have all her mail inspected before anyone opens it.

She's already received hate mail saying she should have been aborted and that she should off herself after she criticized Mooselini a few wekks ago.

[The Backlash Cometh]

15. Well, I'll give her credit.

She was quick to see the problem, because the religious right has jumped the shark.

[Homer Wells]

16. Sounds like she is channeling

Dorothy Parker. Thank God for honest journalists!!

:bounce: :bounce: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :applause:

[lostnotforgotten]

17. "One party was brimming with energy .... the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting. "

eom

[Bread and Circus]

18. The Republican Party stands for one thing, more money for the wealthy....

Now that the religious cookoos of this country are starting to jeopardize that, the elite conservative thinkers will cast them down with the sodomites.

Parker is spot in, but the bigger problem with their party and the conservative movement is that it is grounded in greed, pernicious self interest, and the faulty logic that we are not all inter-connected morally and socially.

[MsLeopard]

24. Great take on Palin

"Let's do pray that God shows Alaska's governor the door." :rofl: Too funny!

This said in reference to Palin's conjecture on whether to run for Prez in 2012:

"I'm like, okay, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is.... And if there is an open door in (20)12 or four years later, and if it's something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."

Yes indeed - show her the door, God.

[fed_up_mother]

25. "Arm band religion" Oh, I love that phrase!

:rofl:

I think I will use it from now on!

[Are_grits_groceries]

26. Who will smite her first?? nt

[Marr]

27. What an elitist commentary.

It's odd to see a Republican columnist openly admit what so many have observed; that the money faction of the party saw the evangelicals as a kind of easily-duped class of peons. They're a filthy mob that should vote for their superiors in the Republican "intelligentsia", as Parker puts it (corporate establishment might be a better descriptor), but they were never to actually be given any meaningful political victory-- and they were certainly never to wield power themselves.

[Critters2]

34. Now she seems to see what a mistake it all was. That's worth something, nt

[Are_grits_groceries]

29. Sorting through some comments about the Parker column, I found this jewel:

"Sarah would do herself a world of good to listen to tapes of Mrs. Thatcher speaking on a daily basis. Become a better
and more powerful speaker through study and osmosis."


I cannot for the life of me imagine what Palin would sound like if she tried to mimic Margaret.
It is beyond hysterical. I wish she would try it just for amusement.

[Blue_In_AK]

30. Honestly, Sarah's "word salad" approach

to communication is something that wasn't apparent before she went out on the campaign trail. I saw before and after clips of her on the news the other night, and the difference was really striking. I think she's lost some of her marbles.

[Are_grits_groceries]

31. Sometimes I think that if I printed up her interviews

and cut them into phrases, I might be able to make something intelligible. It could be a new game.
Maybe she has some form of memory problem that only allows her to remember 8-10 word phrases at a time. She recalls them in no particular order.
I don't think she reads anything because most people who can read well can write well and put intelligent sentences together. I think
"Readers' Digest" looks as long as "Les Miserables" to her.

My own view is that she is a plant to make our heads explode. As people who are educated to read and listen to decent English, trying to follow
her meanderings makes our brains heat up from exertion.

[OneGrassRoot]

35. Wow, she has some zingers in there: "Depends sales meeting"

"Anyone watching the two conventions last summer can't have missed the stark differences: One party was brimming with energy, youth and diversity; the other felt like an annual Depends sales meeting."

LOLOLOL

[Jade Fox]

36. Parker seems to have caught a bad case of sanity.....

The few times I've read her column in the past always resulted in me emailing a response to her bizarrely naive pronouncements.

It's like she's grown up. She looked like she was having a damned good time on Steve Colbert and Bill Maher after the Pailin column.

Time will tell.

[foxfeet]

37. Did she just come out of a coma or something?

Maybe she heard the theocrats making comments about her while she was out.