[Overpaid Slacker]

FWIW, dd; I didn't mention the religious right ab initio, I was responding to its mention.

You can be sold on the notion that the RR is driving the conservative bus; in fact you evidently are ... and you're scared. Which is how you're supposed to be. Rather than look into detail, which you're never presented, you see the superficial and often fatuous overlaps of the RR and conservatism and told that's a reason to fear and loathe them. You're being duped.

As a conservative, I can assure you that the RR is nothing new and is not driving the conservative bus. Republican bus, maybe moreso. But we neocons are a cryptofascist conspiracy -- run mostly by Jews -- who have the Christian RR guiding our every move. Do you not see how lame this is? Whatever the uncompromising principle in the path of secularists today might be, well that is what's really behind conservatives!!!! It's really pathetic on so many levels.

Neocons WERE founded principally as an economic school; like it or not, believe it or not, it's true. Conservatives now are not the same as conservatives then, but NOT EVERYONE HAPHAZARDLY BRANDED AS A NEOCON BY OUR MEDIA OR LOCAL PINHEADS ACTUALLY IS A NEOCON. Please re-read the prior sentence. Your etymology of neocon is just wrong. It's the current media spin, but it's wrong.

It's getting so tiresome to have to repeat the fact that b/c it's now supposed to be a pejorative, it's become a proxy label to slap on anyone with whom MSM, Lefties, etc. disagree, so as to preclude a debate such parties are unfit to win.

If our Presidents/Commanders-in-Chief having communications with the almighty is deviant to you, I suggest you don't know or choose not to believe in the piety and devoutness many of our Presidents have had. It's simply that it was commonplace and did not receive the kind of derogation it does today. In that blinkered context, you might as well condemn W for sleeping in a bed with sheets! Or brushing his teeth! Or eating red meat!!!

JP