In an article titled: “Hard-liners for Jesus,” Harold Meyerson of the Washington Post writes:

The most depressing thing about the Republican presidential race is that the party’s rank and file require their candidates to grow meaner with each passing week. And now, inconveniently, inconsiderately, comes Christmas, a holiday that couldn’t be better calibrated to expose the Republicans’ rank, fetid hypocrisy.

Nativist bigotry is strongest in the Old Time Religion precincts of the Republican Party, and woe betide the Republican candidate who doesn’t embrace it, as John McCain, to his credit and his political misfortune, can attest.

So Romney attacks Huckabee for holding immigrant children blameless when their parents brought them here without papers, and Huckabee defends himself by parading the endorsement of the Minuteman Project’s Jim Gilchrist, whose group harasses day laborers far from the border.

READ FULL ARTICLE HERE

REFERENCES:

1. How the Republicans Stole Religion: Why the Religious Right is Wrong about Faith & Politics and What We Can Do to Make it Right
2. Naked Republicans: A Full-frontal Exposure of Right-wing Hypocrisy and Greed

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