Steve Benen, at the Washington Monthly, on the Talibangelical organized Christian fundamentalist search for a viable Not-Romney:
… Remember the “Not Mitt Romney” initiative launched two months ago by some fairly prominent right-wing voices? It wasn’t a bad idea, except for the fact that these folks never settled on an alternative. The task for Romney’s Republican detractors can’t be to simply highlight his flaws; it’s to elect someone else. “Not Mitt Romney” isn’t, and can’t be, the goal; nominating one of his rivals is.
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Apparently, this realization is starting to sink in, at least among some.A group of movement conservatives has called an emergency meeting in Texas next weekend to find a “consensus” Republican presidential hopeful, POLITICO has learned…
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The meeting is being hosted by such prominent conservative figures as James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family; Don Wildmon, onetime chairman of the American Family Association; and Gary Bauer, himself a former presidential candidate.… Politico’s report added that the meetings participants will effectively choose between Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, which from a theological perspective, creates a bizarre dynamic: evangelical Christian leaders will be selecting among two Roman Catholic candidates.
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As for who has the edge, Gingrich has never gotten along with Dobson, so don’t be too surprised if by next week, the religious right starts coming out in force in support of Santorum.
Maybe DFH Jesus, who from all reports never much cared for those who used religion as a tool for increasing their private fortunes and secular influence, will listen to the prayers of His beleaguered people (“Jesus, those guys, again?”) and ask His old man about the family tradition of Smiting the Wicked. But then, the Konclave is taking place in Texas, so I’m not sure there’s much further to be accomplished in the desolation sweeps…
Incidentally, there is a new sidebar WaPo poll: Do you agree with Charles Krauthammer that Rick Santorum is a “worthy” and “plausibly presidential” alternative to Romney? And the ayes stand at — you guessed it — 27%…
Napoleon
Not for me – I don’t see it.
jl
I for one do believe that a consensus notMitt insane Xtianist reactionary in the GOP primary would be very helpful right now. I wish them luck in their quest.
They should consider a third party run if they can’t crack the evil secularist (or perhaps SATANIC cultist, hmmmm?) hold on the GOP, and I will contribute to that if any left over after giving to Democrats.
wrb
Wonder if they lost the R party with Citizens United and are only starting to realize it.
From now on the plutocrats can flood every election killing the grassroots candidate deader than a newt. Eventually they will find a figurehead more appealing than Mittens.
Tim F.
That is damned spooky. One of these years someone ought to nominate Tyrone for a Nobel.
dmsilev
Scary, but funny. Also rather amusing that Krauthammer has decided to, lets say, suck up to Santorum.
jibeaux
typo for frothy?
Southern Beale
They {heart} Huckabee!!!!!!
Who said he isn’t running. So, suck it up, fundies. Wait ’til 2016.
Benjamin Franklin
Imagine how the guy who invented the flame-thrower felt, when it was turned on him.
The Bearded Blogger
At Dailykos, someone speculated about a Santorum/Gingrich ticket, with Newt playing the part of attack dog/cheneyesque puppetmaster and Santorum issuing a holy pardon of redemptipon for Newt. Seems plausible… but holy charisma deficit Batman!
johnsmith1882
i like how jesus uses his own name in vain in your quote.
hildebrand
The konklave will have to go with Santorum – at least that guy says and does all the right things to be thought of as a truly right wing religio-social conservative. My guess is that whilst the Texas konklave would definitely still string up Roman Catholics if they could, they have a definite liking of Cardinal-to-be-Tim Dolan’s style of social moralizing and right to life blather – which means that Santorum is right up their alley.
Newt? Thrice divorced Newt may speak to their not-quite-so-inner hypocrite on matters of fidelity to spouse, but he doesn’t quite have that slimy, evangelical, oozy charm that Santorum can muster if necessary. Think Oral Bill from the old Bloom County strip – that is what they want. Newt is a bit too, hmm, cantankerous for that.
jl
@jibeaux: Maybe he meant ‘worhy’ and the meaning actually is, and will remain, a mystery, even though he must have meant something. But he has no obligation to explain what he meant to say.
The Rih Savonarola code works that way, and the Kraut is on board.
hildebrand
@The Bearded Blogger:
See: Romney, Willard M.
The Bearded Blogger
@jibeaux: You kinow, if Santorum was the slightest bit smart he would turn his frothy problem into an advantage, he could say something to the effect of being a staunch social conservative warrior and “having the scars to prove it”… Christians like martyrs, don’t they?
Yutsano
@wrb:
Every establishment Republican wants Jeb. Because they want another Bush in the White House. Jeb opted out this time around because his little bro stank up the joint. And now the Republicans are developing an even stronger brown problem, and Jeb has a foreign-born wife. The really interesting part is Jeb could have probably pulled it off.
Cat Lady
What massive FAIL Perry is with all that support and cash just lying there to be picked up by someone other than him, now that he flushed all that good Texas erl money down his idiotic pie hole.
catclub
LGM had a post showing Santorum speaking like a sane person about nullification. Could be career ending. Could bring back Prick Erry.
catclub
@The Bearded Blogger: a) He does. b) It is not working very well. c) He is still a sanctimonious asshole. d) The knives have come out fastest against him than any other non-Mitt frontrunner.
13th Generation
I think one day that some scientist will find that that 27% number is somehow hardwired into the universe, like Pi, or Planck’s constant.
jibeaux
@The Bearded Blogger: If he were the slightest bit smart, he also might have refrained from gratuitously insulting working women in Pennsylvania before an election, but that would be Bizarro Santorum.
Epicurus
While I long for the shit show that a Santorum-Obama matchup would bring, I fear ole Willard will eke out a win in the end. That does not make me particularly unhappy, as the robot is soooo unlikable, he’s not even going to make the GOP voters enthusiastic enough. Still hoping for an Obama victory next November…the alternative is simply too scary to even think about.
The Moar You Know
No need to choose. Newt’s gone full-on Rambo. His only goal in life now is to destroy Romney, and he doesn’t give a shit if the Republicans win this election or not.
r€nato
oh yeah, that gang is going to pick a winner who can totally take on Obama. Because when the economy is weak and millions are without jobs, the smartest move to make to beat the incumbent is to fight a culture war over abortion, teaching evolution, prayer in schools and gay marriage.
ruemara
I’m all for the burning bush, if these guys are tied to it. Please, deity, please.
Benjamin Franklin
http://consortiumnews.com/2012/01/05/us-political-news-is-a-fools-game/
joes527
@jl: while a GOP shattered into n parties would make the presidential race a walk-away, having every conceivable flavor of crazy at the top of the ticket in the general would do very bad things for the Senate and House races.
JPL
@The Bearded Blogger: Why hasn’t Callista born the Newt a new heir? She still has time because she’s only 45 years. Santorum might want answers since contraception use is immoral.
Litlebritdifrnt
Listening to Laura Ingram right now and she made an interesting point (she hates Romney) on the electability issue. “So you are telling me that the person who LOST to the person who LOST to Obama is the more electable? Really?”
He He He
Culture of Truth
@Benjamin Franklin:
Pro-Obama Super PACs hit Romney for own ‘Solyndra’
Democratic-aligned Super PACs are going after Mitt Romney on what they depict as essentially his own Solyndra, a further sign that Democrats see the writing on the wall and that they believe Romney will be President Obama’s opponent this fall.
A video produced by American Bridge, called “Romney’s energy loan hypocrisy,” hits Romney for loans made while he was governor of Massachusetts to two companies that eventually failed or moved away – and had ties to Romney campaign donors.
Raven
@JPL: Because she can’t find the paper bag?
Yevgraf
A Santorum candidacy makes me tumescent. Lots of birth control/gay bashing/culture wars talk.
Still, I’m not at all convinced that we’ve seen the last of Alan Keyes.
toujoursdan
@Litlebritdifrnt: Yes, but didn’t Reagan lose to Ford who lost to Carter in 1976 and then come back to beat Carter in 1980?
Legalize
@The Bearded Blogger:
He does that all the time. He and his surrogates are constantly whining about how that foul-mouthed homo, Dan Savage, makes his living oppressing white, Xtian males.
Southern Beale
In other news:
Just fucking GIVE IT UP, Republicans. You’re all a bunch of racist fuckwads. Stop pretending otherwise, it always come out in the end.
Yevgraf
Oh, and all of a sudden, I’m in search of a campaign slogan.
“Feel the Santorum”?
“Taste the Santorum”?
Face
Fuck Us and the Family possibly endorsing a serial adulterer in Grinrich? Not only would the Hypocrisy needle redline and break off, but the whole meter would explode into pieces.
Benjamin Franklin
@Culture of Truth:
Romney’s the One ! My biggest fear is a 2000 redux. This country will not survive, as we know it.
Yevgraf
@Raven:
For her or him? They’re both double baggers in my book.
Raven
@Yevgraf: ding
GregB
@Benjamin Franklin:
I am afraid of that.
The exact same outcome would turn into a war. I am convinced of that.
Let’s hope for a landslide.
Benjamin Franklin
@Southern Beale:
They mock her with terms like ‘Moochelle’ and belittle her efforts to raise nutrition awareness by hooting her serving M&Ms at a WH event saying
‘it’s ok. They’re milk-chocolate’
“Racist? Mois?”
catclub
@The Moar You Know: I am not convinced of this. I think it was a head fake that thrilled people like us but is just another con. Perhaps to get a bigger payday when being bought off.
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
Newt has either gone oddly silent after that one outburst against Romney, or the media is pointedly ignoring him.
Benjamin Franklin
@GregB:
A landslide is possible, but not likely, I’m afraid.
Yevgraf
@Face:
Now that Newton is C!alis age, he can be a reformed, changed forgiven man, speaking the right words out of experience and the spirit of chastity, generosity and Christian love and concern for the failings of fallen man.
Our Loard and Saaavior Jesus Chraaaaast foargives sinners. Who are we to judge…..
jl
@Southern Beale:
BJ should post some good old fashioned jokes that they could use instead of this trash.
Frinstance.
Why did the chicken cross the road?
A richman, a bigot, and a swindler walk into a bar…
Take my wife, please.
And I think there are some golf jokes for the country club set. But wait, golf IS a joke. har har! (get it?)
See, plenty of material for them if they could just get their minds off the blah and browh.
crosspalms
Currently changing his name to Savonarolatorum. Google problem solved!
Original Lee
Too bad the simple solution will never occur to them.
Not Mitt = Obama
chopper
this is good news for MhHain!
r€nato
@toujoursdan: that’s true, but that seems like the exception that proves the rule; Mitt is a pale, pale shadow of Reagan in terms of his importance to the right. Reagan came along at the perfect time; 1976 was a far different time than 1980.
Having said that… Ingraham is full of it. Losing in a primary isn’t necessarily indicative of one’s ability to win a general. I can’t think of any recent examples of that beyond Reagan… but I’ll say this, if Hillary runs in 2016, the fact that she lost to Obama in 2008 isn’t really predictive of anything.
DanielX
Krauthammer too? It must be going around today – this morning’s David Brooks column positively wallows in Santorum. In Bobo’s usual fashion the chief Republican candidate de jour comes in for the usual Brooksian tonguebath: “I’m not sure he’s a viable candidate, but some of his concepts and ideas almost overcome my Hayekian modesty especially given the exciting come-from-behind nature of the candidate…” blah, blah and more blah. There will be similar columns featuring whichever candidate is leading the primary race until the Republican primaries are over. After all, one must cover one’s bets in the event that one of these yahoos actually beats the Kenyan interloper – Villager access and topics for conversation at cocktail parties must be preserved at all cost. Not that there’s any particular cost involved for Brooks; he peddled his ass and journalistic integrity (assuming he ever had any) away a long time ago.
Note: it’s difficult to write anything at all about Santorum without including at least one double entendre or pun even when you’re not trying to, and it’s his own fault.
chopper
@johnsmith1882:
“me on a crutch, people!”
SenyorDave
@dmsilev: If anyone is in a position to suck up to Santorum, its Krauthammer.
wrb
@SenyorDave:
It must damned hard to write a non-suggestive Santorum headline. There are a couple I saw in the MSM that only required a tiny bit of imagination.
Linda Featheringill
Oh, a third party would just so wonderful. But the FSM probably doesn’t love us enough to make that happen.
catclub
@DanielX: Head fake. It seems to me that the knives have come out in the mainstream press against Santorum faster than for any of the other clowns that got near the head of the clown fail parade.
John McCain is patient zero in this epidemic.
Bobo and Krauthammer will not stick with Santorum…. eww
Tone in DC
@hildebrand:
LULz. That’s a good 20 years ago. That Brylcreem-covered dude Fundamentally Oral Bill (the Cat).
Amir Khalid
@catclub:
I’ve been wondering about this too. Now that Noot’s brief turn as the Not-Mitt is over, is he going to get much of a media audience for his Mitt-bashing? Noot is old news already. And if Mitt is the moneybags tendency’s man they’ll want their employees in mainstream media to shield him from attack, even from a no-hoper like Noot.
Yevgraf
Q – Why did the Christian Conservative Activist cross the road?
A- His dick was stuck in the chicken.
************
Q – How many conservatives does it take to change a lightbulb?
A – Zero. They’d rather sit in the dark, blame liberals for the state of the darkness and block the liberals from changing the bulb. Later, after liberals finally manage to get the bulb changed, they’ll scream about the tyranny employed in changing the bulb, will state that light would have come back anyway if the bulb had been left unchanged and will scream that they preferred the dark anyway.
chopper
@wrb:
what’s so suggestive about ‘romney slips in big mess: santorum comes from behind to give mitt #2 in iowa’?
seems pretty factual to me.
WereBear
@13th Generation: One standard deviation, either way, is usually 68%, leaving 32% as classic outliers. It’s amazing in itself that what I call “the magic one third” is pretty consistent across sociology.
From the number of people who defied authority when it got life-threatening in the Stanley Milgram experiments, back to the number of police who refused to murder their Jewish neighbors, we have a pretty consistent 1/3 of the population who are able to hang on to their moral beliefs even under authoritarian pressure.
Which would leave about that many who will cave like a sand castle. Noise and margin of error might wind up with 27%; I don’t find a lot of research on “why people can be dickish” but that’s how I think of it.
RalfW
Last Monday several regular BJ commenters jumped on me for suggesting Santorum was the choice for evangelicals and could sew up the GOP ticket as Romney’s running mate.
Ahem.
I sounded nuts last week. Guess who is nuts this week? The GOP!!
DanielX
@catclub: Nope, no head fake required. Brooks is a Village media whore of the first rank, and writing bright sounding swill about the Republican flavor of the day, as it were, is his job. Whether he actually believes any of what he writes is irrelevant, and swallowing a little Santorum is part of what he gets paid for and all part of his day’s work. Krauthammer is a little different, he’s borderline wingnut himself and may actually believe that Santorum should spread more widely, although he’ll end up falling in behind whoever wins the nomination, as all good Villagers should.
Jeezus, this spreading sheet of Santorum just about writes itself, doesn’t it?
Yevgraf
Funny, a blast from the past…
http://dissidentvoice.org/Articles4/StClair_Santorum.htm
Kirbster
Even my very conservative BIL wouldn’t vote for a sanctimonious shitweasel like Santorum in the general. He’d still show up to vote, of course, straight Republican on the downticket races, but skip the presidential vote.
DanielX
@The Bearded Blogger: Never happen – unlike Cheney, Newt is never going to play rhythm to anybody else’s lead, even if it’s only for appearance’s sake. Working in the shadows like a vampire was natural to Cheney, Newt needs the spotlight like people in hell need ice water.
Also, too, a holy writ of redemption from Little Ricky and being washed in Santorum ain’t gonna provide salvation to Newt. Nothing short of the Second Coming and a pardon from Jesus will save Newt from spending all eternity locked in a room with Noam Chomsky, Ann Coulter, and however many ex-wives he has at that point.
wrb
@chopper:
Poor headline writers are just gonna give up in frustration.
Here are a few that have slipped through already
A few that slipped through:
• Santorum Breaks Out in Iowa
• Santorum Runs Hard on Long Final Day
• Neck and Neck: Romney Tops Santorum
• Romney Tops Iowa, Santorum Surges
• Santorum Links Black People, Public Aid Programs
• SANTORUM STUNNER
• Will Santorum Surge Travel?
• Romney Pips Santorum
•Santorum Trails Romney, Obama in Pa.
• Santorum Surges With Low-Dollar Model (prostitute pegging story)
• Why Santorum’s Surge Could Be Sustained
• Why Evangelicals Coalesced Around Santorum
• SANTORUM SURPRISE
• In Final Lap Santorum Comes From Behind (Catholic News Source)
• Santorum Bubbling Up Everywhere
• Santorum Tests Chocolate Truffle Milk at Christmas Party
• Santorum Surges, Paul Pushes, Perry Prays, Gingrich Cries
Romney Ekes Past Santorum
• Santorum Pushes Supporters to Keep Surge Alive
Suffern ACE
@Yevgraf: That’s just odd. Since when have the catholics started getting themselves mired in post-millenialism and the rapture? I thought even during the black death the Church wasn’t too keen on all that apocolyptic stuff. (I got the smae confusion from Bachmann – she talks that talk, too, but she is just an arch conservative Lutheran. I grew up in that synod, and we weren’t “that way.”)
Benjamin Franklin
@Yevgraf:
Their hysteria over CFL’s leaves me breathless.
Imagine a farmer refusing the offer to get his goods to market for 25% of the cost of transport by his usual ox-cart…..
Far-out.
Origuy
@Yevgraf: Don’t forget that they’ll complain about the liberal using a CFL bulb.
Edit: Benjamin Franklin beat me to it, but he’s had 306 years of practice.
Bruce S
Santorum or Gingrich?
Tough choice for these “Evangelical Christian” grifters…prioritizing only one of their two highest “values.” Which will it be? The Crazy or The Hypocrisy?
chopper
@wrb:
i can’t wait until romney beats santorum to a pulp in NH: “romney drinks santorum’s milkshake”
different-church-lady
The question is: have liberal fundamentalists given up on the search for a viable not-Obama?
01010101
the question is–when will corporate liberals quit thinking of Romneyites and mormons as crypto-progressives, when they’re the whitest honkey-capitalist moralists around
redshirt
@Benjamin Franklin: It’s easy to understand once you accept that truth, facts, history, consistency, morals, tradition, none of these things matter. Tribal Loyalties are the only determinant to their belief systems, and that can boil down to, in part, “If’n the LIBERAL are FOR IT, I’m AGAINST it”.
It works on almost every modern Repuglican “position”.
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
It’s the invasion by a bunch of asshole Protestants who decided that their own denomination was sufficiently woman-hatin’ and converted to Catholicism, IMO. Any kind of Rapture or apocalypse talk was definitely frowned on when I was growing up Catholic.
Damn Protestants, ruining everything … grumble grumble …
grandpa john
@Yevgraf: Actually our Lord and savior forgives “truly repentant sinners”And contrary to some peoples opinions he is very aware of the scam some of the grifters will try to run.
Matt 7:21-23″ Not everyone who says to me,’Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven but only he who does the will of my father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day,’lord did we not prophesy in your name and drive out demons and perform many miracles?’ Then I will tell them plainly, ‘ Away from me you evil doers, I never knew you
Mnemosyne
@wrb:
Are you kidding? If you’re a copy editor, you live for this shit. Being able to sneak a pun or joke into a headline is the Holy Grail.
Pococurante
Driving in to work today I was behind an old pickup truck literally wallpapered (as in I’m not sure what color of truck) with Palin/Gingrich stickers. The windows (even the edges of the windshield) were soaped with more of the same message.
This is North Texas and in an upper middle class neighborhood.
Benjamin Franklin
@redshirt:
Yup.. Let’s just make sure they aren’t our ‘Teachers’….
amk
@Pococurante: LOL. Two washed out pols seem to be the only hope for these nuts shows how far they sunk their own party.
Tone in DC
@Yevgraf:
The WWF was his main client as a lobbyist. Mary, Joseph and their son all wept.
Mike in NC
Easy: Gary Bauer can pull a Cheney and nominate himself for president, leaving the VP choice up to a coin toss between Dobson and Wildmon. Watch out, November, here they come!
Davis X. Machina
@Benjamin Franklin: Nonsense. The worse the better….those contradictions won’t heighten themselves, people!
Jason
Not so strange any more. Roman Catholics have been the go-to-guys for advancing the evangelical agenda for quite some time. The theological differences betwen the two camps have been temporarily suspended in the service of the far more critical cause of reversing the tide of secularism and social liberalisation. Conservative catholics can be trusted to vote the right way on abortion and gay rights, have plausible deniability about being an evangelical plant, and appeal to a broader demographic than evangelicals (namely, conservative catholics!) It’s not an accident that the Supreme court has become 66 percent catholic, and that 100 percent of the Christians on the court are catholic, without a peep of protest from evangelicals.
Suffern ACE
@different-church-lady: Nope. They plan to blame Obama til their dying day for the fact that Cornell, Michael and Ralph failed to organize a signature drive to get someone on the primary ballot in New Hampshire.
nevsky42
Frank Stallone?
Oh.
jcgrim
LOL! That 27% crazification factor is approaching statistical validity.
AA+ Bonds
Krauthammer is a hawk,
he’s in the bag for Romney,
that column is psy ops.
AA+ Bonds
Don’t focus on Santorum, Santorum does not fucking matter at all, waste of time
Chris
@Jason:
They also allow you to get the message out of the rural areas and the “heartland” and into the urban, coastal areas where Catholics have historically been concentrated (especially in the industrial North). Instead of being a hillbilly convention limited to certain regions of the country, the religious right gets to have a presence of some kind more or less everywhere.
Can’t imagine how bitter the pill was when fundies first had to reach out to Catholics after a hundred and fifty years of treating them the way they treat Muslims today, though. It’s an amusing thought.
Sergio
(Thanks, Anne. I spied the following on the exciting web!)
PRETRIB RAPTURE POLITICS
Many are still unaware of the eccentric, 182-year-old British theory underlying the politics of American evangelicals and Christian Zionists.
Journalist and historian Dave MacPherson has spent more than 40 years focusing on the origin and spread of what is known as the apocalyptic “pretribulation rapture” – the inspiration behind Hal Lindsey’s bestsellers of the 1970s and Tim LaHaye’s today.
Although promoters of this endtime evacuation from earth constantly repeat their slogan that “it’s imminent and always has been” (which critics view more as a sales pitch than a scriptural statement), it was unknown in all official theology and organized religion before 1830.
And MacPherson’s research also reveals how hostile the pretrib rapture view has been to other faiths:
It is anti-Islam. TV preacher John Hagee has been advocating “a pre-emptive military strike against Iran.” (Google “Roots of Warlike Christian Zionism.”)
It is anti-Jewish. MacPherson’s book “The Rapture Plot” (see Armageddon Books etc.) exposes hypocritical anti-Jewishness in even the theory’s foundation.
It is anti-Catholic. Lindsey and C. I. Scofield are two of many leaders who claim that the final Antichrist will be a Roman Catholic. (Google “Pretrib Hypocrisy.”)
It is anti-Protestant. For this reason no major Protestant denomination has ever adopted this escapist view.
It even has some anti-evangelical aspects. The first publication promoting this novel endtime view spoke degradingly of “the name by which the mixed multitude of modern Moabites love to be distinguished, – the Evangelical World.” (MacPherson’s “Plot,” p. 85)
Despite the above, MacPherson proves that the “glue” that holds constantly in-fighting evangelicals together long enough to be victorious voting blocs in elections is the same “fly away” view. He notes that Jerry Falwell, when giving political speeches just before an election, would unfailingly state: “We believe in the pretribulational rapture!”
In addition to “The Rapture Plot” (available also at any library through inter-library loan), MacPherson’s many internet articles include “Famous Rapture Watchers,” “Pretrib Rapture Diehards,” “Edward Irving is Unnerving,” “America’s Pretrib Rapture Traffickers,” “Thomas Ice (Bloopers),” “Pretrib Rapture Secrecy” and “Pretrib Rapture Dishonesty” (massive plagiarism, phony doctorates, changing of early “rapture” documents in order to falsely credit John Darby with this view, etc.!).
Because of his devastating discoveries, MacPherson is now No. 1 on the “hate” list of pretrib rapture leaders who love to ban or muddy up his uber-accurate findings in sources like Wikipedia – which they’ve almost turned into Wicked-pedia!
There’s no question that the leading promoters of this bizarre 19th century end-of-the-world doctrine are solidly pro-Israel and necessarily anti-Palestinian. In light of recently uncovered facts about this fringe-British-invented belief which has always been riddled with dishonesty, many are wondering why it should ever have any influence on Middle East affairs.
This Johnny-come-lately view raises millions of dollars for political agendas. Only when scholars of all faiths begin to look deeply at it and widely air its “dirty linen” will it cease to be a power. It is the one theological view no one needs!
With apologies to Winston Churchill – never has so much deception been foisted on so many by so few!