McCain Jumps the Shark and Joins Romney in the United Bigots Club

“The most important thing is that I am a Christian,”

John McCain has lost all respect, following the white animal carcass of his party down the rabbit hole. As a grotesque take on the famous JFK speech about faith in politics, McCain now joins Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt “The Greaser” Romney as another ignorant detractor from real politics to play the part of Pastor in Chief in early rehearsals for candidacy for the most powerful position in the globe. Replace his moronic sentence with anything not resembling piety and faith and you should, as a reasonable person, see the problem. His support of stem cell research is no consolation to the insult of assuming only a Christian can run this country. The Republican presidential nominee scenario is shaping into the kind of blue collar jokes usually reserved for single demographic localities. A Mormon, A Baptiscopalian, and a TV Lawyer walk into a bar.. . This is the second time I’ve heard some variant of the “At least I’m a person of faith” argument…. with all do respect to the process formerly known as unthinking, can’t we just take a look at the evidence? Just a… ah … little peek?

Saying that it was important to be a Christian doesn’t attack a single other potential candidate (I’ll let the Christians worry about Romney’s status). It attacks several entire groups of people. What has being a Christian done for this country? Just simple facts is all I would need…

But let us review the first five, average scholars historical rankings of Presidents of the United States:

1     Abraham Lincoln     1861–1865     Republican     1.58
2     Franklin D. Roosevelt     1933–1945     Democrat     2
3     George Washington     1789–1797     Unaffiliated (Pro-Administration)     2.83
4     Thomas Jefferson     1801–1809     Democratic-Republican     4.42
5     Theodore Roosevelt     1901–1909     Republican     4.83

I will be damned. On that list, if we define Christian as “one who believes in the divinity of Christ” we seem to have only two Christians. Both Roosevelts were adherents of the Episcopalians, the same claimed “faith” of Jefferson and Washington, although both were known Deists, I also believe that Teddy was a Dutch Reformed and extremely skeptical, I could be mistaken, although he was criticized often for his lack of religious affiliation. Lincoln was only trumped by Jefferson in his non-belief of the divinity of Jesus Christ, and an avid admirer of Thomas Paine.

“The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.” -”The Abe”

The most religious of the bunch was Franklin Roosevelt. I have no doubt he was a believer, however, he was known for his leaving references to his religion almost completely out of public speeches and utterances. He was known by some preachers as the “Alley President” for his support of the repeal of the 18th Amendment.

So, we have 3 of the top 5 Presidents by scholarly rank, non-Christians. What was that again McCain?

“The most important thing is that I am a Christian,”
Because we know that is what it takes to be a good leader.

The GOD pandering has got to stop. The Republican Party is in for a wicked surprise. There are a large number of people in this country who are sick of hearing about it, not just the non-believers. Do they honestly think the theocratic wing of their party has enough people to get them elected?

Now that is faith.