"Being a Christian is no excuse for being stupid."

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Former House Majority leader, Dick Armey(R), TX had a few choice words for the monster dobson and how he has captured the gop.

"Demogoguery doesn't work unless its dumb, shallow as water on a plate. These issues are easy for the intellectually lazy and can appeal to a large demographic. These issues become larger then life, largely because they are easy. There ain't no thinking."

http://mediamatters.org/items/200609260013

Media Matters correctly pointed at that this diatribe against a real devil amongst us didn't get much airtime or space in the "liberal" media.

It is refreshing and surprising to hear a republican tell the truth. (a republican who does not have to run for office.)

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1. Dick Armey, eh? Enemy of Newt!

How odd that he should crawl out into the light so soon after Newt has so done?

Perhaps they intend to kiss and make up, and run for office as a GOP dynamic duo?

Blast from the past, here: http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1997/07/21/time/gingrich.html

In scheming to be rid of House Speaker Gingrich, DeLay and his co-conspirators showed all the talent for intrigue of Peter Sellers in his Pink Panther days. Depending on who's doing the telling, the schemers included one, two or all three of the other House leaders ranked directly below the Speaker--majority leader Dick Armey, G.O.P. conference chairman John Boehner and leadership chairman Bill Paxon--not to mention 20 or more insurgents from the rank and file. Cooked up in secrecy, the coup collapsed before it could begin. The result was a week of backstabbing that left Gingrich weaker yet more entrenched. It could lead, as early as this week, to a complete reshuffling of his leadership team--just as negotiations with the White House on the year's most important legislation enter their critical stage. Says Florida Republican Mark Foley: "It's like a circular firing squad."

Oddly enough, (recently in the news due to his fighting with his wife) Brit Hume's dead kid Sandy had a bit of a back end (no pun intended, but delivered nonetheless) role in all this. See this thread: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2847278

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2. The Repubs are getting what they deserve.

Sucking up to the religiously insane will eventually bring ruin to that party. The sooner the better!