Evangelist Franklin Graham announced
that he is leaving the Republican Party.
Good!
Now if we could only persuade Ted
Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush, Carly
Fiorina, Rick Santorum and the rest of their ultra-right- wing evangelical Bible
thumping followers to do the same, we just might end up with a Republican Party
that would win the presidency in 2016 and lead our nation out of the stinking swamp
of socialism forced upon us by the Democrats.
“Unless more godly men and
women get in this process and change this wicked system, our country is in for
trouble,” said Graham.
You see, that’s the problem in a
nutshell. In recent decades our nation has been controlled by the right-wing “godly”
on the one hand, or the left-wing “progressives” on the other. Both represent recipes
for disaster. It’s high time for Americans to find their way back to the reasonable
center.
Ideally, the frustrated religious
extremists that have hijacked the GOP should form their own political Party –
The Evangelical Party – where they would become marginalized by the vast
majority of Americans who are sick and tired of the Hobson’s choice between either
religion or socialism presiding over our government.
A new and revitalized GOP without
extremist evangelical influence would attract multitudes of rational Democrats
and Independents looking for a better alternative. It would become a bigger and
better Party leading to a better United States of America.
Good riddance to you Reverend Graham.
And you can take the rest of your fellow travelers along with you.
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