While the Neocon, Corporacon and Plutocon wings of the Republican Party appear to be coalescing around vulture capitalist, Mitt Romney, the Republican Theocon and InsaniTEA wings are appalled at the possibility that someone they consider a heretic might get the Republican nomination. They correctly recognized that splitting their support between three followers of Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) was helping Romney, so they met this weekend to choose their unified anti-Romney savior.

Former senator Rick Santorum has emerged as the choice of more than 150 evangelical leaders who huddled at a Texas ranch Friday night to debate their preferred candidate in the GOP presidential race. The move represents an eleventh-hour effort by social conservatives one week out from the crucial South Carolina primary to unify around a single candidate and blunt the momentum of former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, whom many evangelicals consider insufficiently conservative. But in a sign that the effort may be too little too late, the leaders did not discuss any plans to urge former House speaker Newt Gingrich or Texas Gov. Rick Perry to drop out of the White House race, according to one participant — meaning that social conservatives could well split their support this year, just as they did during the 2008 GOP presidential primary. “That was not even a part of the discussion,” Family Research Council President Tony Perkins told reporters Saturday afternoon when asked whether participants discussed any effort to push Gingrich or Perry from the GOP contest…

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They picked the worst hatemonger in the bunch. Rick “Google Me” Santorum hates gays, black people, and women. He may also hate dogs, being so fixated on man on dog sex. 😉



Frankly, I think Republican Supply-side Jesus (not the real one) may well have misled these folks, because they have obviously slipped in the Santorum.