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48 Percent of the GOP Is … Not Brilliant
Scopes Monkey Trial - 1925
- United States Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3: ” …. [N]o religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.” -
By mal
Hey, all you Constitution-reading, all-so-tolerant elitists, [that's goes double for you, Mikey Weinstein, your blood will run wild and free with the other non-believers' in a long river] so now you’re going tell us that Muslims should be allowed to run for president?
Just channeling Sarah Palin and Rod Parsley there, folks. Didn’t mean to scare you.
What is scary is reading Ronald Brownstein’scolumn in the National Journal Friday discussing the political culture where “a plurality of Republicans said Muslims should not be allowed to run for president.”
In a national Time magazine poll released last week, just under half of all Americans agreed that Islam is more likely than other faiths to promote violence against nonbelievers. But that number rose to 70 percent among Republicans and nearly three-fourths among conservatives.
Fully 55 percent of all Americans said they believed that most U.S. Muslims are patriotic; but only 42 percent of Republicans and 38 percent of conservatives agreed.
Perhaps most strikingly, 43 percent of conservatives and a 48 percent plurality of Republicans said Muslims should not be allowed to run for president. Only about one-fourth of Democrats and independents agreed.
So does that 48 percent of Republicans not support the United States Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3 stating that ” …. no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”?
Here’s a wild guess: These GOPers have not read the United States Constitution and they do not think about it.
To borrow from the famous exchange between William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow during the Scopes Monkey Trial (1925), a spectacle that put American ignorance on trial in a legal challenge to a Tennessee statute banning evolution being taught in public schools:
“I do not think about things I don’t think about,” said the confused religious fundamentalist, Jennings Bryan; to which Darrow replied caustically, ”Do you think about the things you do think about?”
Much of America looks on with a mixture of incredulity, alarm and loathing as the confused later-day Bryan bigots run wild.
We hope that things are not as bad they seem. Maybe it 1998 again and only the talking heads care about this manufactured spectacle and like in ’98, 70 percent of the populace is using their collective head and don’t hold views comporting to the Newts, Sarahs and the like.
But face it folks, in 2010 a plurality of Republicans do not think much about the things they do think about.
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How many Christians are running for political office in Muslim countries or Israel? The founder never thought that the West wouldn’t defend their own culture, allowing every people in from the 3rd world by the millions without assimilation. The problems with the Christian’s is they focus outside of their own fence for threats, while the fox is running their coop. Rome was destroyed from the inside, so was the Catholic Church, and so is America.
Geez, Justin, there are 1.5 Billion Catholics in the world. Some destruction. Other than that, you are close, if not right on.
T.
Gee Whiz, Mike — 48-90% of the Democrats are not so brilliant either. So what does that senseless statement of yours prove? Have a happy Sunday, man.
T.
Many of our major problems in the US after 40 or 50 years have come from Presidents, Senators and Congressmen and women who have graduated from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Princeton some of the other Ivy league schools. One can put both Republicans and Democrats in that pile.
It proves tje United States Constitution, Article VI, paragraph 3 is not too important to 48 percent of the GOP.
That one would even consider a religious test in running or serving in any office means that person is foolish.
while the fox is running their coop
OKAY , QUIZ TIME,
CAN YOU IDENTIFY THE FOX ??????????????????????
Excellent point COL(R)jack!!
Jack,
This sounds like the Christian persecution complex to me. Where does this 80% come from, Rupert Murder? OOps did I spell that wrong?
Salaam,
Indfidel
it’s broken.
48 Percent of the GOP Is … Not Brilliant:
Hell that is nothing to talk about. Twist it around and that will only leave 52% of Democrats with or w/o brains. LOL—-Thats a lot of crap in DC right now. Not being one to stick to any party I can split my votes as I wish. But you hard core DEMS seem to love the ones in DC., and keep voting the DEMS in. I bet there will be a big surprise coming in Nov. Do you smart-dumb or otherwise like what the DEMS are doing now. That mess is because too damn many DEMS vote a straight ticket. That is one of the worse moves to do. You end up losing good people just to stick with your party and to hell with all others. BTW, you don’t have to label me as a GOP lover, as I am pissed off at the whole mess right now. The jerks in DC do not vote for what is best for us and the country. All they want to do is fight each other and screw up the works. If you love what is going on now, IMO your nuts. SEEVIEW
The whole dam Washington STINKS WORST THEN ALL THE CESS-POOLS in America. dont get close the dam stink will kill you. I suggest all the spineless, no backbone american populous wake-up before its to late. your country is sinking like a sinking ship. the national election is in 2012. TIME FOR THE INDEPENDENT PARTY TO TAKE OVER. THAT IS IF THEIR IS ANY AMERICA LEFT. did any one say revolution.