The Election in One Post

Only once in a long while does something come around that precisely sums up an entire era in a matter of sentences.  This is one of those rare times.

Campaigning together in Louisiana, Congressman John Fleming and Senator David Vitter spoke to a Republican woman's club in their home state. Fleming eloquently summed up this year's midterms:

"We have two competing world views here and there is no way that we can reach across the aisle -- one is going to have to win," said Rep. John Fleming, R-La. [...]

"We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties and that we remain a Christian nation.

"So we're going to have to solve that argument before we can once again reach across and work together on things."

As Joel Connelly writes on his blog, according to the GOP we are facing a choice between a "Godless," and "atheist society" or a "Christian nation."  By all means choose the Christian nation, please.  And the way to vote for a Christian nation is, of course, to vote for God's Party and cast your ballot for a Republican.

This is the Bush 2004 strategy.  It worked.  It turned out the base.  People were terrified that if John Kerry won, God would punish this country.  Fortunately for America, Bush was reelected and we witnessed another 4 years of endless war, a Dow that lost thousands of points, an economy that created not one single job and an administration that ran up trillion dollars of debt.  I couldn't imagine what God's punishment would have looked like had Bush lost.

Sen. Vitter, God's Family Man

Seemingly the story would end there.  But it doesn't.  Many will already have caught on that Fleming was with Sen. David Vitter when he made the remarks about choosing God or a socialist-atheist society.  As we all know, Vitter is a man of God and the perfect man to represent what exactly it is that voters are choosing.  Vitter is a self-described pro-life moral crusader who has routinely campaigned on being a moral values family man.  He also pays prostitutes for sex.  

The choice couldn't be clearer.  Nor could their derangement.