Memo to fundies ...

[kweerwolf]

As frustrating and irritating as Fun-D'uh-Mental-ists can be, they can also be amusing. Take, for example, the fundie propensity for being completely oblivious to anyone's motivations but their own.

Progressives and liberals have recognized for years that the Republican Party's hopping in bed with religious zealots is not really a match made in heaven. Fundies are like the kind of plain girl so dazzled to be dating the captain of the football team that her legs go up in the air while visions of a big church wedding dance in her head. Her Republican suitor, on the other hand, is making plans to move on to his next conquest even as he says, "Yeah, ummmm ... sure I love you, baby. Now raise your hips a bit so I can get your panties off."

Usually a girl who falls for the blandishments of a suave but insincere cad is loathe to let it happen again. But with the fundies, one good line from the Republicans and the clothes start to drop faster than Bush's approval ratings.

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The sadly amusing thing is the fundies keep falling for these lines again and again and again. You'd think they'd realize that with a Republican in the White House, a Republican-controled Congress and a Supreme Court that leaning further and further to the right that if the Republicans really wanted to make abortion illegal or take on an amendment banning same-sex marriage, it would have already been done. Granted, the Republicans have already worked on cutting taxes and helping out large corporations, but these were done to impress a couple of the Republicans' other girlfriends - Miss Wealthy and Miss Big Business. If these accomplishments can impress the fundies, too, then so much the better. It keeps the Republicans from really having to deliver on all those pillow-talk promises about gay marriage and abortion.

http://kweerwolf.blogspot.com/2005/11/memo-to-fundies-its-ok-to-be-whore.html

(OK ... I hate self-promoting posts, but anytime I get the chance to bitch-slap fundies and Repugs, it's just too much fun not to be shared.) ;)

[Ezlivin]

1. Fundamentalist = credulous

When you are willing to believe in fairy tales, you'll fall for anything/anyone.

[Gildor Inglorion]

2. Yeah, fundies would be vastly entertaining if they weren't so bloodthirsty

much like Nazis but without the swell uniforms and catchy music.

[nickyt]

3. Daaay-um, kweerwolf, you had me gettin' a little...sweaty.,,..whew...

Very nicely done!!!

And now, for a shameless Scanlon memo reminder:

Consider one memo highlighted in a Capitol Hill hearing Wednesday that Scanlon, a former aide to Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Tx., sent the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana to describe his strategy for protecting the tribe's gambling business. In plain terms, Scanlon confessed the source code of recent Republican electoral victories: target religious conservatives, distract everyone else, and then railroad through complex initiatives:


Mobilization

We plan to use three forms of communications to mobilize and win these battles. Phones, mail and Christian radio. We believe that if you are on TV you are generally losing battles like this. Our mission is to get specifically selected groups of individuals to the polls to speak out AGAINST something.

To that end, your money is best spent finding them and communicating with them on using the modes that they are most likely to respond to. Simply put we want to bring out the wackos to vote against something and make sure the rest of the public lets the whole thing slip past them. The wackos get their information from the Christian right, Christian radio, mail, the internet and telephone trees. (Oct. 2001)

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/11/03/abramoff/index_np.html

http://indian.senate.gov/2005hrgs/110205hrg/110205exhibits.pdf

http://www.chris-floyd.com/jack/ page 119 "Mobilization"

I am hoping that the word on this gets out in a big BIG way (all I do anymore is send this to churches, DeLay supporters, xian radio hosts etc), and maybe that "plain girl" will pull her drawers back up and finally knock that football captain's dick in the dirt!

[Rowdyboy]

4. Really glad for the link....I read this piece and then a few others.....

I also came-out (sort of) in the mid-1970's at college. I was also raised in, and loved the United Methodist Church until I left for college. Really sad to see such twisted behavior from a minister of this once-progressive church.

I'm Episcopalian now (though I haven't been to a service since Christmas Midnight Mass) but I still have an affection for the little UMC church I grew up in. When my brother was murdered at age 29, he had no insurance or estate. My mom was on disability and had nothing of value, but these small town friends of hers paid for everything. Thats one reason I can't bring myself to totally reject religion, in fact.

Anyway, again, thanks for the link to your blog. I'll visit again.

[Maat]

5. I'm so sorry to hear about your brother, Rowdyboy!

Yes, churches can do a lot of good.

That's why I support the progressive ones.

Not a dime of my money will ever be going to the Southern Baptists - that's for sure!

[Rowdyboy]

6. Thanks....he was killed by the woman he was divorcing on Labor Day

1996, shot dead (unarmed) on her front porch. The small town in west Tennessee where they lived was her hometown and she was acquitted after a 1/2 day trial. Small town "justice" at its finest. We lied to my mother about the verdict because it hurt to tell her the truth.

He was just a regular guy. Dropped out of high school, worked as a truck driver, drank more than he should, and wasn't very reliable. Still, he deserved better.

Again, thanks for caring. Thats one thing we progressives do very well.

[Maat]

7. I'm glad you spared Mom the pain, says this retired social worker.

Healing energy to you (no need to reply - just take care)!

[kweerwolf]

8. Hey Rowdyboy ... thanks!

... for your kind words.

I'm sorry to hear about your brother as well. I can't imagine what that was like to go through.

I was just thinking the other day how those of us "regulars" here see each other (well, in online form) on a daily basis and really know so little about each other. And then you come and write a really moving, personal post that really shares yourself with the rest of us.

In a way I guess we truly are a unique kind of community and family here. We can disagree and argue, but we can also be there for everyone ... just as everyone came together yesterday to vent and share our feelings about the Texas marriage vote and other issues. I think we really do become a sort of "extended family" and support system. And your post really drove that point home for me.

Thanks so much for sharing it. :hi:

(Dang! Am I having a "Dr. Phil moment"?) ;)

[Rowdyboy]

9. Thanks, guy. He was my baby brother (I'm 10 years older).....

My favorite memory of him was from the night Jesse Jackson delivered his magnificent "Patchwork Quilt" speech at the 1988 Democratic Convention (Billy shared my interest in the Democratic Party). As Jesse finished, the crowd erupted shouting "Jesse, Jesse, Jesse". My phone rang and it was my nutcase baby brother, slightly drunk, loudly chanting "Jesse, Jesse, Jesse". I joined in and we went on for at least 5 minutes.

Not bad for a Southern "good-ole boy". He was one of a kind.

Didn't mean to hijack the thread, but once I started, it was hard to stop.