Check out this testimonial by the brother of a teabagger running for local office

[kristopher]

The following should provide a basis for all to understand that my brother found his 'god' no later than October 2002. You don't just wake up able to quote scripture overnight so one would have to 'assume' that my brother had been studying the bible for some time. He may have joined his current church in 2007 but that just gave him a place to be among other similar thinkers. Just my opinion...I could be wrong...but I seriously doubt it.

Let me begin with as I last spoke with my brother (October 2002) it was made perfectly clear to me about my life and lifestyle. If the following applies to me (and my wife) then logically it applies to all others as well. It doesn’t matter what religion you believe in folks. If you aren’t ‘saved’ “you’re a pagan believer”. If you don’t live your life as he expects you to live it you are a “pagan believer”. If you're a NASCAR fan, whether or not you go to races, you're a "pagan believer practicing Pagan Rituals". If you have sex with your wife for reasons other than procreation...you're a "pagan believer". If you've not been 'saved' and 'saved' by his god you're a pagan believer. If you're black, Asian, Mexican, gay, or don't go to a church of his liking... YOU'RE A PAGAN BELIEVER! If you're a college graduate, educated in some way or something other than what he thinks you should be or act...guess what folks...YOU'RE a PAGAN BELIEVER!! Are we getting on the same page yet? The list is all but endless. If he doesn't tell you to your face he's thinking it after he leaves your presence.

First of all I want to leave a note to my brother’s wife. Mom despised you and wasn’t going to your wedding no matter how she was doing. You cheated on your husband with my brother and mom held that against you from day one. Mom was a very ‘moral’ person and some of the things she said about you were outright funny! She tolerated you at best because you were a part of my brother’s life and we did the same after we got to know you. Some advice for you: When you talk about others behind their backs one can easily assume that you’re doing the same about them to others. Oh yeah...do you think it was just sheer coincidence that she died just about the time you exchanged vows? She told me she was going to try and hold on to do just that!!

I guess the first thing I need to bring to everyone's attention is that in May of 2002 I arrived at my mother's home and within minutes of my brother leaving she went to great lengths to 'warn' me of two things concerning my brother. I should let you know that at this time my mother was dying. Her Pancreatic Cancer was coming back (she'd had a 'Whipple' procedure 3.5 years earlier) and this time the cancer was going to take her from us. Done deal, Mom was dying.

The first thing she wanted ...

[mike r]

1. Mental illness must be a requirement

for Tea Party membership.

[Warpy]

2. Holy sailor! What a loon!

My guess is that cheating Patty is going to get tired of being a handmaid to a (cherrypicked) biblical patriarch and decamp at some point.

Every family has one of these in it somewhere. My own extended family has two and I haven't seen either one of them for over 40 years. I like it that way.

There is no crazy like god crazy and there's not a hell of a lot you can do about it but give them a wide berth and offer to help them pick up the pieces when and if it finally does all fall apart. You just can't count on that happening and it's necessary to reduce or eliminate contact to save your own sanity.

[XOKCowboy]

3. Wow! Heckuva story....

Thanks for sharing. I hope everyone in the district reads it.

[kristopher]

4. He's running on the same wave that is propelling Christine O'Donnell

Note that I added a bit to the OP.

[XOKCowboy]

6. The man is on a mission!

Seems the word is getting out also. Thanks again.

[Enthusiast]

7. The same thing occurred to me.

Ugly situation.

[pacalo]

5. Very juicy stuff.