In the NYT, the Beltway Dominionists are soiling their diapers at the prospect of the defeat of Prop 8. This is their last stand, and are declaring that religious persecution is around the corner unless it passes. In fact, owner of the KKK’s mailing list, and Family Research Council honcho Tony Perkins declares that this battle over marriage equality is more meaningful than the presidential election.

Conservative religious leaders from across the country are pouring time, talent and millions of dollars into the state in support of Proposition 8, which would ban same-sex marriage. They are hoping to reverse a California Supreme Court ruling in May that gave same-sex couples permission to marry, resulting in thousands of exultant same-sex weddings.

Similar marriage amendments are on the ballot next month in Arizona and Florida. But religious conservatives have cast the campaign in California as the decisive last stand, warning in stunningly apocalyptic terms of dire consequences to the entire nation if Proposition 8 does not pass.

California, they say, sets cultural trends for the rest of the country and even the world. If same-sex marriage is allowed to become entrenched there, they warn, there will be no going back.

OMG - does it mean the end of the world is around the corner? If so, why hasn’t Massachusetts caused the End Times? Oh silly, why should facts get in the way of The Rapture. Hyperbole alert…

“This vote on whether we stop the gay-marriage juggernaut in California is Armageddon,” said Charles W. Colson, the founder of Prison Fellowship Ministries and an eminent evangelical voice, speaking to pastors in a video promoting Proposition 8. “We lose this, we are going to lose in a lot of other ways, including freedom of religion.”

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian lobby based in Washington, said in an interview, “It’s more important than the presidential election.”

“We’ve picked bad presidents before, and we’ve survived as a nation,” said Mr. Perkins, who has made two trips to California in the last six weeks. “But we will not survive if we lose the institution of marriage.”

Doesn’t it leave you breathless?! Tony also takes the opportunity to knife John McCain in the back for not stepping up to the plate enough to help the fundies—even though he selected Sarah Palin to carry the torch of intolerance for them.

“He’s not helping, and he’s not being helped by the support for the marriage amendment,” Mr. Perkins said, in contrast to the campaigns of President Bush.

Fellow fundie Janet Porter takes an even more dire view of your soul. See below the fold.

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When Barack Obama says that the Constitution was fundamentally flawed when it was written, he actually has a problem with this obscure part of the Constitution - Article 1, §2, Paragraph 3:

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.

Why does Barack Obama have a problem with apportioning taxes equally among the several states, instead of funneling the wealth of the productive towards the lazy, the indigent and ACORN?  Does he not think that Joe the Plumber is as full of a man and as worthy of consideration and his money as Barack Obama’s black friends?  This is the truly scary part of Obama’s totalitarian plans - for the first time in our nation’s history, our government will strip people of their very livelihoods and dignity and treat them like chattel.

That Obama would so grossly break with the original text of our beloved Constitution to figuratively (and literally?) enslave hardworking people is the most frightening thing he’s yet proposed.  From Raleigh to Louisville to Omaha to Reno, Barack Obama wants to create a “Middle Passage” of our wealth to his coastal welfare-hoarding elites. 

How utterly callous and dangerous.

Barack Obama’s website now features a section for kids. 

By which I mean Barack Obama is drafting his future Fascist Army. 

Now let’s wrap up the tour and put this into perspective. Is this all so bad? Is it bad at all? Shouldn’t kids be involved? Aren’t they entitled to their opinions? Is it wrong to reach out to them to open their eyes, so that they could change opinions of their parents? There are two way to answer these questions. One is simple ethics. Make no mistake: this is not about reaching out to the supporters. Sen. Obama openly goes after the kids of people who don’t plan to vote for him. He and his staff see the minds of children as a backdoor to get to the voting parents and grandparents. So, yes, it is bad. It is wrong. It is despicable. And there’s no excuse for this.

If there’s one way to get parents to do something, it’s to get their toddlers to nag them about it - hence America’s world-leading pony and chocolate castle industries.  There is, of course, a bad side to childhood involvement in politics: going from “my kid’s excited” to “I’m going to use my kid to be a partisan asshole!”.  But if drawing pictures and wearing stickers is the beginning of a new fascist fasctocracy (credit me!), then I also demand we bring immediate military action against the insurgent Kids Voting group.  I would also like this site classified as hate porn - it’s not just hate, it’s not just porn, it’s both…and more.

Wingnuttia has a new windmill to tilt after…could Obama lose California? 

The answer is no.  The answer has always been no and will always be no.  But the results are stunning!

California has begun early voting already as well as mail-in balloting. The number of people who have gone in to vote in person has been extensive. The results so far prove what we had always suspected. The polls are being proven as totally unreliable. Although the results of early balloting have not been disclosed,of course,how many Republicans and how many Democrats have voted has been revealed.

The results are simply shocking. The polls showed Barack Obama with an 18 point lead in California just a few days ago. The results thus far are the complete opposite. In the most liberal state in the entire country,the results are that 99,000 Republicans have voted and 96,000 Democrats voted. In the mail-in balloting the results so far are that 9,000 Democrats sent in their ballots and that 5,000 Republicans did so. So with nearly 210,000 people having voted,the Democrats have only a 1,000 vote advantage !

Remember back when the Corner was saying that Obama’s GOTV effort was a miserable failure because of the low numbers of people who’d early voted in Ohio?  And then remember how that point was entirely worthless, because there was still a month of voting left to go?  This is a lot like that. 

There are about 24 million registered voters in California.  Even assuming a ridiculously low 50% turnout, that places the number of voters for the November 4th election at 12 million.  This means that the 210,000-voter harbinger for Democratic doom constitutes 1.75% of voters in a low turnout election.  Why might you have low Republican-leaning early voter turnout in a solidly blue state?  Logic would dictate that since nobody’s putting money into early voting efforts there, the pool that’ll turn out is essentially random.  And tiny. 

Of course, the conservative base is desperate like whoa for any good news…so this means that Barack Obama will lose California and John McCain is already our next old white male president.  Strata-Sphere:

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As you all know I receive some really vile emails from people, but most of them are so ridiculous that you wonder if there is any brain activity going on with some of these dopes, so I share them.

A recent harvest of the mailbag generated these two winners. First up is a missive from a man with a chip on his shoulder about Obama and womb control. I guess this weirdo read the recent diatribe from Randall Terry to the Catholic bishops (urging good Catholics must not vote for Obama) and got a woody.

Subject: God help this nation
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:03:32 -0700
From: PeterR
To: pam

you are so lost and so hateful, God have MERCY on your soul, dont you fear God and what you will have to answer to some day? Obama thinks helpless babies that survive abortions should just go in the garbage can?? WHAT kind of Christian Man is HE?? He ignores the Bible telling him homosexuality is an ABOMINATION, murder is wrong, GOD knows you BEFORE you were in your mothers womb…Obama hangs with terrorist, are these his likely Supreme Court appointees??? God help this country if he keep mesmerizing people like Hitler did!!!!!!!!!!

The next letter writer appears to be a little behind on the times, since I just received it today but it refers to the bonehead maneuver

back in July

of Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina, and the controversy about the “South Carolina is so gay” ad. Sanford personally intervened to have it pulled from a London Gay Pride ad campaign, releasing the nonsensical statement that “the state will not promote itself as a tourist destination through campaigns “aimed at a specific group of people.”

Subject: Gov. Sanford
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 10:26:20 -0400
From: E Butler
To: pam

Dear Pam:

Governor Sanford personally squelched the SC is so gay ad because he had thousands of emails from SC citizens asking him to do so. SC is Bible Belt. We believe in Christian values. What you do is between you and God. What our Governor does is really none of your business, Pam.

However, since you have stuck your nose in SC business, you really need to know we don’t care what you and the SC Pride Movement think. I am praying for you because God will forgive only the truly repentant. I hope you can truly repent all of your sins, including the display of vicious comments about our governor.

Governor Sanford did nothing wrong. It is mean, rude, unconscionable and sinful to treat him this way. I notice the Terms of Use Agreement on your website says no mean posts are allowed. You show yourself to be a hypocrite.

E. Butler

Sanford is a public figure (and was a VP shortlister for McCain), hasn’t commented here on the Blend, where the Terms of Use applies (between commenters), so I don’t know what this whackjob is talking about. But of course that’s not the point; Sanford’s actions and excuses are classic pro-wingnuttery.

UPDATE: I added two more mailbag fruit loops below the fold.

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Glenn Reynolds links to Dan Riehl sharing an utter distaste over the unsubstantiated and likely bogus rumors of Barack Obama having an affair.

Of course, the smarter thing to do would be not to have amplified a rumor for which there’s no support, particularly when the theory behind the lack of evidence for said rumor is, and I quote, “If they (the media) wait, however, and break the story of Obama’s alleged affair after he becomes President-Elect (and yes, they’re confident they can still help make that happen), them they have Obama the Elected to rape on page one and broadcasts and talk shows for months upon end.”

In case you didn’t pick up on that, the pro-Obama media is waiting to release a credibility-destroying revelation about Barack Obama, their chosen messiah and leader, so that they can spend the next four years raping him super hard.  Because of the liberal rape bias.

I remember the good old days when wingnuts had to at least use two full sentences before their logic broke down into a puddle of tears and Yoo-Hoo.  Thanks for not spreading that rumor, Glenn.  You’re a champ.

As I’ve noted before, Obama supporters don’t have a need to make sh*t up about violence and hate from the other side. Raw Story:

After several political signs were stolen or vandalized from his front yard, a Missouri man installed video cameras in an attempt to catch the vandals in the act.

And that’s exactly what he did.

A video below shows a woman stepping out of a truck and kicking Mike Brown’s Obama/Biden political signs before running away. “I’m just a guy who has a sign in his yard, and this is the first election that I have ever felt was important enough for me to voice my opinion in the form of a yard sign,” said Brown.

“It happened Monday at Parkway West Middle School. Some kids called it ‘Hit a Jew’ Day. At least three children were hit during the incident, all of whom were Jewish. Two were tapped on the shoulder or arm, but one child was slapped in the face.” “School principal Linda Lelonek said it started last week. The sixth graders decided to have a ‘Hug a Friend’ day. Then it was ‘High-Five Day,’ but teachers did not know what was going on until several kids were hit.” “Educators said they do not believe the incident was done with hatred or prejudice.”

Belmont Club has determined that asking your grandparents to vote for Barack Obama is akin to Satan’s temptation of Christ.

We have forgotten much. The use of love to lead people to destruction was once a uniformly understood metaphor for ultimate evil in the Western canon. Still, though tradition has been forgotten there are still several well known examples in popular culture warning us against that sort of thing. The thriller writer John le Carre famously said that “love is whatever you can still betray.” In Richard Lester’s adaptation of the Four Musketeers, the evil Milady de Winter (played by Faye Dunaway) seduces her jailer’s son and beguiles him into assassinating her master. Love in the service of betrayal is still a popular theme in literature.

But no longer at the level of deep myth and taboo. Once upon a time most of us would have been familiar with these words. “Judas, dost thou betray the Son of man with a kiss?” Today Judas and Kiss are better known as names of rock bands than symbols of perfidy. Some bible-clinging children may still remember the story of a child who was being asked to use his father’s love for him, not for good, but for vanity of knowing he could manipulate love to get what he wanted. It eerily echoes the appeal by the ‘HQ blogger” to get The Precious (strange term that) to use love to manipulate Grandpa.

The devil led him to Jerusalem and had him stand on the highest point of the temple. “If you are the Son of God,” he said, “throw yourself down from here. For it is written: “‘He will command his angels concerning you to guard you carefully; they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.’” Jesus answered, “It says: ‘Do not put the Lord your God to the test.’”

But we have long forgotten the words, “get behind me, Satan.” Oh, I forgot. He doesn’t exist.

Of course, this would place voting for

John McCain

Sarah Palin in the same realm as opening up the Kingdom of God to all who believe in her and the sacrifice she and her followers have made.  Will Kathleen Parker deny Palin three times before the dawn?  Will the immense popularity of Judas Priest ever be supplanted by the forgotten Biblical character based on the English metal band?  This, we do not know.

Let this thread function as an archive of sorts - what have been your favorite absurd conservative reactions to Barack Obama’s candidacy? 

The left are evil, terrible people who refer to things that actually happened in ways that are less than flattering.  Ergo, Barack Obama will kill his grandmother because she wouldn’t sign over the original copy of his Indonesian birth certificate (or something).

I hate these fucking people. 

UPDATE: Redstate says that Joe the Plumber may soon become Joe the Failed Candidate and run against Marcy Kaptur, who holds a seat that has been represented by a Democrat for all but two of the last 54 years.

He isn’t Joe the Smart Guy, after all.

I initially posted on what an obvious hoax this hoax of a story was yesterday afternoon, then took down the post.  Mainly, it was because despite the fact the story seemed obviously made up, there was about a .75% chance that it wasn’t, and I wasn’t quite confident.  Sometimes 99.25% just isn’t enough.

Perhaps worse than the blatant lying engineered to swing an election (and the fact that this girl was dumb enough to make up an attack in a place where a camera films you) is the fact that she, of course, made up a Big Negro with a Big Knife who was also mysteriously dyslexic, angry, and the slowest fucking mugger/disfigurer on earth.  The killer from Saw pulled off less contrived shit than she made up. 

James Dobson made sure the flux capacitor was firmly in place, and hit the gas, propelling himself into the future to show us the debacle that awaits American when the homosexualists take control. It’s a 16-page melodrama (no, I won’t bore you with it, but the PDF is here). Jeremy said this about the phenomenon:

Yesterday we showed you a nutty “newscast from the future” that the far-right fringe is using to scare voters about a potential Obama presidency. But little did we know that this condemnatory clairvoyancy was less of an isolated incident, more of a sweeping new trend. Perhaps if we were as psychic as they, we would’ve realized that playing fear-mongery soothsayer is apparently the best the social conservatives of ‘08 can come up with in terms of an “October Surprise.”

He opens with breathless fearmongering.

Dear friends,

I can hardly sing “The Star Spangled Banner” any more. When I hear the words, 
O say, does that star spangled banner yet wave
O’er the land of the free and the home of the brave? 

I get tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat. Now in October of 2012, after seeing what has happened in the last four years, I don’t think I can still answer, “Yes,” to that question. We are not “the land of the free and the home of the brave.” Many of our freedoms have been taken away by a liberal Supreme Court and a majority of Democrats in both the House and the Senate, and hardly any brave citizen dares to resist the new government policies any more.

The 2008 election was closer than anybody expected, but Barack Obama still won. Many Christians voted for Obama – younger evangelicals actually provided him with the needed margin to defeat John McCain – but they didn’t think he would really follow through on the far left policies that had marked his entire previous career. They were wrong.

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Gateway Pundit puts up what is close enough to the legendary “whitey” tape for the likes of me: a YouTube video of Barack Obama talking about “white executives”.  Once.

The idea that white suburbanites are resentful of their money going to help largely minority population in inner-city communities is straight out of the Huey Newton/Louis Farrakhan manifesto.  I, of course, mean Huey Newton the bank teller at the Chase down the street and Louis Farrakhan the barrista at my neighborhood Starbucks.

She’s a deranged cus, isn’t she? I don’t know who earns more Pinocchios, but Michele Bachmann or Robin Hayes. I experience maximum schadenfreude with Bachmann, since the homophobic Congresswoman has been on the LGBT community’s radar for years.

On Hugh Hewitt’s radio show yesterday, Bachmann declared that “Barack Obama’s views are against America”:

BACHMANN: All I did on Chris Matthews is I questioned Chris Matthews and said, “look, if John McCain had friends like Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and Father Pfleger, you’d be all over him Chris, but you’ve laid off of Barack Obama.” And so, he was using the word “Anti-American” and I told Chris, what I question are Barack Obama’s views. Because Barack Obama’s views are against America. They won’t be good for our country.

On Mike Gallagher’s radio show this morning, Bachmann attacked Obama’s policy proposals, asking rhetorically, “Are they for America or will they be against traditional American ideals and values?”:

BACHMANN: And they can’t take it because the point is what are Barack Obama’s policies? Are they for America or will they be against traditional American ideals and values? And I’ll tell you what. Punishing tax rates, redistribution of wealth, socialized medicine, inputing censorship in the form of the un-Fairness Doctrine and taking away the secret ballot from the worker has nothing to do with traditional American values. That’s why your listeners need to know. Otherwise the United States may be literally changed forever.

When Gallagher asked, “How is it not reasonable to wonder if that’s anti-American?,” Bachmann did not disagree with him.

Think Progress has the audio and full transcript of this self-immolating looney-tune.

Eva at Dump Michele Bachmann reports that the Congresscritter has sent out an emergency fundraising letter now that the GOP has pulled the plug on advertising. A snippet is below the fold.

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Yesterday I posted about the latest Republican tactic in the U.S. Senate race here in NC (playing a lame ‘evil atheism’ card on Kay Hagan) as Elizabeth Dole sinks in the polls. I said:

so the best that the National Republican Senatorial Committee can do at this point is to go after the one group probably more reviled than teh gayz in the mind of the wingnuts - atheists.

Well lo and behold…here comes the homostrawman, courtesy of the NC Republican Party. (PageOneQ):

A new mailer in support of incumbent Sen. Elizabeth Dole claims that Hagan’s agenda, with the help of “liberal judges,” will be to advance a “radical homosexual agenda” which includes same-sex marriage, removing “Under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance, and forcing the Boy Scouts to accept gay and atheist troop leaders.

Hagan’s opposition to an anti-gay amendment is the focus of the mailer. “Across America,” it reads, “liberal judges are overturning state laws banning gay marriage. In North Carolina a state constitutional amendment is needed to protect traditional marriage and prevent liberal judges from imposing their gay marriage agenda on the state.”

I’d hardly call Hagan liberal, but hey - I’m surprised the sophisticated fossils at the NCRP didn’t find a way to throw in “socialist”.

I laughed at all of this because as you might recall,  I was dissed by the Hagan campaign for simply asking  how she’d vote on pending legislation re: LGBT issues. There was no need to worry about hiding from the questions because I knew the GOP was going to eventually bring it up anyway—you might as well be on the right side of the issues—and the community you will eventually ask for $upport from. Sen. Hagan’s liveblog response back in April:

Pam - I’m close to John Edwards on this - I believe marriage is between a man and a woman and that it’s fundamentally a state issue the federal government has no business getting involved in. But I take a back seat to no one when it comes to equal opportunity and fairness. I oppose ANY form of discrimination and I believe that partnerships should be protected when it comes to financial issues, hospital visits, employment, and housing issues.

We don’t have an amendment because our General Assembly is Dem-controlled, not because Kay Hagan supports marriage equality. But facts, even if they are disappointing for us, don’t matter to the North Carolina GOP - they have a lousy candidate with a crap record who’s doing poorly in the polls.

More below the fold. A reader’s friend shares an exchange with Dole’s office about this mailer.

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Gmail’s spam filters having apparently taken the autumn off, I’m mostly inundated with offers for $1000 Wal-Mart gift cards or “CSI degrees” - which I assume mean forensic science, rather than cytoplasmic sperm injection - which is why Leonid Teytelman’s (teytleman at g mail dot com, shared by permission) e-mail almost slipped right past me.

Dear Pandagon Authors:

This is an exchange that I had with Edward Prescott, one of the five Nobel economists whose endorsement Senator McCain is touting as proof of good economic policies…

Before we go into the exchange, let’s meet Nobel Prizewinner Edward Prescott, courtesy of additional links from Mr. Teytelman, shall we?

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