Watching the McCain/Palin campaign devolve into ugliness this week and the enthusiastic and frightening response by their supporters, I couldn't help wondering whether the Republican establishment, in particular those who have spoken out against this ugliness, were self aware enough to realize that McCain was merely reaping what the GOP has sown for years.
For decades now the party has embraced bigotry and ignorance. They have kowtowed to what McCain himself once referred to as "agents of intolerance". People like Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and John Hagee, et. al. who preach a divisive, judgmental, hate-filled message that would have Jesus spinning in his grave (if he hadn't risen from it.)
Earlier this week at a McCain rally in Davenport Iowa, Pastor Arnold Conrad, gave an invocation where he said the following (audio here):
I would also add, Lord, that your reputation is involved in all that happens between now and November, because there are millions of people around this world praying to their god — whether it’s Hindu, Buddha, Allah — that his opponent wins, for a variety of reasons.
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