From the news, the Republican Party or at least Senator Frist has started a campaign to paint people who dislike their judicial nominees as antiChristian. They are claiming (see Daily Kos
http://www.dailykos.com comment by Kos himself with ad poster) that their opponents are filibustering against Christianity.
If you are a Republican, and not a member of the TheoCon Right, you should strongly consider that it is past time to bail out. Join a local conservative party if you are a fiscal and social conservative. Join the Libertarians if you are fiscally conservative and socially liberal. If you are a liberal Republican, become a Democratic Party member. Become an independent if you don't fit elsewhere. Remember, when you lend your good name to the TheoCon Right you are working for the TheoCon Right, and against the principles for which the Republican Party has generally stood. So long as you belong to the Republican Party, you are working against the principles for which Americans have always stood, and working for the TheoCon Right.
As a defensive frame, when people start ranting about putting the ten commandments in the schools, be sure to ask them if they mean the Catholic Ten Commandments, the somewhat contradictory (Protestant) Christian Ten Commandments, or the Jewish 17 Utterances of Moses, whose interpretation is very different from that of either set of Ten Commandments.
The Justice Department and friends claim to have arrested 10,000 felons in a week, a number far above their average level. Questions:
Is this what the Feds could do every week if they got out of the donut shops and joined hardworking local policemen on the beat?
Aren't we paying the Justice Department to enforce Federal Law, not state law?
Did you just happen to find these people all at once? Or did you save up these people so you could arrest them in a few days? Why did you leave murderers and rapists on the streets for weeks while you were piling up 10,000 targets?
What were you practicing? Why did you want to practice arresting 10,000 people in one blow? Who else did you plan to arrest in such quantities? Democrats?
The Trade deficit continues to bloat. The Republican bigspender party continues to run up the deficit. Savings Rates continue to fall. Is this what you real Republicans want? You've been betrayed by the TheoCons.
On the bright side, if the Libertarian party can get its act together, it can run against the Republicans with a message suggesting 'elect us and strangle the baby vampire-elephant in its cradle'.
And in Massachusetts, note Liberty for Massachusetts http://www.libertyformassachusetts.com as an alternative political path for those who are not Democrats.