One of my best friends once had for a boss a guy who was a classic case of both 9/11 and Obama Derangement Syndrome. A lifelong Democrat, he switched to the GOP once it was clear that a black man with the middle name of Hussein was going to win the White House. But, round about 2012, he switched back again. Seems that he's a Conservative Jew and the alliance between the Republican Party and people who hate the separation of church and state (and who think Jews are Satan's minions) is a bit, erm, off-putting to him.
I'd love to ask him what he thinks of Dan Severson sometime. Dan Severson, you see, is the Republican Party of Minnesota's endorsed choice for Secretary of State, as he was in 2010, and he hates the separation of church and state.
He's also a piece of Teflon. Really.
Follow me past the cheese doodle for more.
Sally Jo Sorensen of Bluestem Prairie, the Greater Minnesota blog that's broken so many stories of national interest, once again has the scoop:
Was Dan Severson running for Minnesota Secretary of State in 2010--as he is in 2014--or to be God's own non-stick cookware?
Just months before he declared his candidacy in October 2009, self-proclaimed prophet and New Apostolic Reformation leader Cindy Jacobs delivered "prophetic words" at the Deborah Company Midwest Convocation in Bloomington on Saturday, July 25, 2009, promising the Minnesota Republican that he could "to be able to say outrageous things and still have favor. I'm going to give you favor - I'm going to make you Teflon."
Being turned into Teflon didn't seem to work all that well in 2010, as Severson still had to deal with the deadly effects of
the voting public's finding out what he really thought about things. But undaunted, the man blessed by Teflon Jesus is going forth to do battle with the sort of awful and insidious secularism that allows people who aren't rich or white or Christian to cast ballots.
Go visit Bluestem for the full monty. It's... interesting. And scary, in a flint-browed, Seven-Mountain, Teflon-Jesused sort of way.