Focus on the fundies: One down, many more to go

Now that Ralph Reed is toast, and Rick Santorum is trailing by 10 points in the polls, it's time to focus on who is in the wings for the Republicans -- because they have plenty of right-wing jerkoffs, both Xtian and non, who'd love to run the country:

(Chart courtesy Huffington Post)

Of particular concern is Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback, subject of a major profile in USA Today today.

Big issues like ending abortion, banning same-sex marriage, battling indecency on TV and refusing to fund embryonic stem cell research fuel Brownback's long-shot hopes for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. Most Americans have never heard of him, but the conservative Christian leaders who play a critical role in the GOP take him seriously.

Take a look at those "big issues" -- all Xtian right-wing hobby-horses. Is there any doubt that a politician of this stripe would lead the U.S. even further into fascism than Bush already has? Read Onnesha Roychoudhuri's article on Alternet, The Growing Threat of Right-Wing Christians.

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