You Don't Need Our Take on the Debates...

...not if you can get Fred Thompson's.

Better yet, you can read Blogs4Brownback's hilarious exchanges in advance of the debate. Some favorite lines: "The Constitution is an obvious fraud to me because it guarantees that which the Bible prohibits, i.e. due process of law, the freedom to be secure in one’s possessions and papers, the freedom to avoid torture, the 'freedom' to express thoughts contrary to the strict word of Christ, equality among the races, the right of women to vote, and the 'freedom' to NOT be compelled toward the only true ideology - the word of Christ."

Unfortunately, Hillary's personal blog is all too silent.

Are there other political campaign satire blogs out there? (A search for a faux Ron Paul blog ended up with waaaaaaay too many hits to too many blogs that were too hard to distinguish between satire and seriousness.) All five of you who read this blog, if you know of any, please comment!

They Eat Their Own (and Babies, Too)

So, apparently, the anti-abortion movement is splintering in the wake of the recent Supreme Court decision on partial birth abortion, targeting Focus on the Family's James Dobson for using their cause to raise millions of dollars in an anti-abortion industry.

Of course, he has basically been a Republican party apparatchik embedded in the evangelical religious sector and trying desperately to keep their reliable grassroots aligned with Republican Party goals. That's why even though evangelical leaders professed to be moved by God to take up the cause of "creation care" -- being environmentally responsible for this and future generations -- Dobson fought hard to strike environmental concerns like global warming from evangelical agendas. The evangelicals saw through his craven politics and rejected his influence then, too.

There has long been a potentially significant divide between evangelicals and the GOP (in part because there has long been a potentially significant divide between self-styled evangelical leaders and many of the individuals who attend evangelical and fundamentalist churches). The global warming and environmental issues were the logical first sign, because the GOP's resistance stems not from its cultural agenda but from its corporate-driven agenda. But it is quite surprising to see the cracks appear in the abortion issue.