GOP and the Unholy Trinity

Well, once the economy started to stabilize,  I guess it had to come to this: devoid of any substantive issue to use against Barack Obama, the GOP has leaped to the holy mother of all 'social' issues--religion itself.

Across the right wing punditry you today find ceaseless questions about the degree of the President's faith...his tawdry past in the arms of devil/pastor Jeremiah Wright...and his legislative 'war on religion'.  Good God!

But this is a can of whup asps that should certainly backfire, since it shines the same light on the underlying knot which prevents the party from rallying behind any candidate--and that is religion itself.  In fact, instead of Father, Son and Holy Ghost, they now sport a three headed monster of irrational belief:

• Evangelicals: mystical whack jobs of the 20th century
• Mormons: mystical whack jobs of the 19th century
• Catholics: mystical whack jobs of the first century (although all of their 'fundamentals' were borrowed from people they subsequently branded 'pagans')

The fact is, these groups neither trust nor recognize each other.  As a bloc, the Mormons will never support Santorum, the Catholics will never support Romney, and the Evangelicals will never vote automatically for either one.  It's that simple.

So forget the economy and Social Security and public education--these issues have no meaning to any of these people without a religious overtone.  Instead, they align only in wielding the broad cudgel of 'religion' to publicly beat the President about his supposedly un-haloed head; but at the same time they can't resist also brandishing it against each other. 

In that second attack, may they all succeed.