NOW THAT MITT ROMNEY HAS GIVEN UP ON HIS GOP PRESIDENTIAL ASPIRATIONS FOR THE TIME BEING, many political commentators and pundits are suggesting that John McCain could be all the more likely to take the GOP Presidential nod this summer up in the Twin Cities.

Unless, however, Mike Huckabee (who sees the Presidential role as being, in effect, a superdivine "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" acting as intermediary for Divine Revelation from G-d A-mighty, regarded as the One True Leader of the American Nation and People) manages to pull a few fast ones in the upcoming round of primaries and caucuses, especially among the Elmer Gantry crowd.

Who, for the most part, tend to be from the ranks of the poor, undereducated or homeschooled and easily-influenced (especially where emotional disorders come into play, not to mention the overzealous influence of the Low Church stylee upon the Religiopolitical Right's base of support).

As for the so-called "Ron Paul Revolution," his racist and neo-Nazi message packaged as one of "freedom, peace and prosperity" doesn't exactly sit well with voters, so explaining Paul's near-bottom standings in primaries and caucuses to date notwithstanding his desire to keep up the campaign (yet all the while wanting to avoid a third-party or otherwise independent bid).

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WHICH COULD ONLY MEAN THAT INDECISION 2008'S "WINNING OF HEARTS AND MINDS" PHASE can only get all the nastier, and then some.

Witness remarks made by Democratic Presidential wannabe Barack Obama in the wake of Super Tuesday about the GOP preparing to dish out all manner of dirt on whoever manages to win the Democratic Presidential nomination. As in "swift-boating," more than likely.

Fortunately, though, the good people @ Brave New Films have fired the opening salvos with two sites (both mit Video) revealing the "real" John McCain for what he is. Just go to The Real McCain and/or Less Jobs, More Wars and see for yourself--especially if you're still the kind of Zealot and/or True Believer in John McCain's campaign.

Whether you'll wind up reconsidering in the end, only the Fates know for sure.

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ANTI-GOVERNMENT ZEALOTS AND TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE XTREME (AND THEN SOME) are no doubt going to be dancing in the streets over the news of a massacree @ last night's City Council meeting in the St. Louis suburb of Kirkwood as saw five city officials martyred and two (including the mayor) wounded seriously and now in a serious condition in hospital.

The assain, a small-time contractor of colour by name of Charles "Cookie" Thornton, was himself shot by police before the massacree got all the more out of control.

That last fact right there should be of especial interest to such specimens of anti-government Zealotry and True Belief whose articles of faith include "patriotic" racism and bigotry.

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SPOT THE INHERENT IRONY IN THE FOLLOWING:

Certain specimens of conservative Zealotry and True Belief (especially so those in a "winning of hearts and minds" vein) have been known to invoke the name and depravity of Venezuelan quasi-dictator Hugo Chavez in attacking real or suspected Liberals or Progressives and their articles of faith--especially if the aim is one of questioning, Joe McCarthy-stylee, the loyalty and True Patriot Love (or supposed lack thereof) among Liberals and Progressives.

(As if said True Patriot Love was conditional on maintaining a hard-wired, "stay-the-course" complacency vis-a-vis the Greater Conservative Agenda and its articles of faith requiring, in effect, an unyielding and @ once deliberate brand of stupidity which can be excused as "goodthought"--orthodoxy per Orwellian Newspeak--and can be appealed to as required.)

Ironically, though, many of these same hyperconservative Zealots and True Believers in question are more than likely anti-Semites of the highest order, howbeit preferring to keep their anti-Semitism below radar (and deliberately), especially if and when "outed." As if that weren't enough, the Anti-Defamation League has come out with a blistering new report (read it and weep, boys and girls) suggesting that the Chavez regime is playing up anti-Semitic canards and patsies as part of its greater political agenda of "popular socialism," not to mention associating with radical Islamists, especially so such known to associate with International Terrorism, and others weird and/or unwholesome.

Witness these specimens of anti-Semitism from the very lips of Chavez himself, via the ADL's press release announcing the report's release:

• "Israel was committing genocide in Lebanon and its leaders should be held responsible and should be judged by an international tribunal … The Israelis criticize Hitler but have done something worse." – August 25, 2006.
• "This fascism is something similar to what Hitler did: bombard cities, kill innocent children, women and men, and destroy the infrastructure of people." – July 26, 2006
• "… The world is for all of us, then, but it so happens that a minority, the descendents of the same ones that crucified Christ, the descendants of the same ones that kicked Bolivar out of here and also crucified him in their own way over there in Santa Marta, in Colombia.  A minority has taken possession of all the wealth in the world …" -- December, 24, 2005.

Other specimens of anti-Semitic propaganda from the Chavez regime's propaganda documented by the ADL as are worthy of note:

• "Those who are upset with Ahmadinejad's visit to Venezuela are the gangsters of the local Jewish mafia; the terrorists who control the Confederations of Israelite Associations (CAIV) and other criminal organizations of similar reputation."  -- Los Papeles de Mandinga, September 19, 2006
• "It was to be expected.  The profound humanistic conviction and moral solidarity of Commander Chavez for denouncing the atrocities that are systematically committed by the state of Israel against Arab people have bothered the cancers of the inferno – international imperialism and Zionism." – Diario Vea, September 14, 2006
• "Zionists, the destructive sect of radical Jews, are again impregnating the Jewish community with its animosity towards humanity.  The genocide they executed in Palestine and Lebanon is similar to the Holocaust which the Nazis executed against them, and they will undergo another Holocaust because of the global hatred they are accumulating."  -- Diario Vea, July 4, 2006.

Besides, liberalism and Progressivism hold dear among their articles of faith a firm belief in diversity, tolerance and multiculturalism, in effect seeing anti-Semitism as one with racism, bigotry, intolerance, xenophobia and jingoism--i.e., intolerable, anathema and un-American.

Given this evidence, what have you to say now, ye who invoke Hugo Chavez as a bκte noire to question the loyalty and patriotism of Liberals and Progressives, let alone perhaps being closet anti-Semites yourselves?

And have you any evidence to suggest that these remarks may probably be what you would call "forgeries"?

Until you can provide a logical answer, remember: You only have yourselves to blame for where you are now, so don't come crying to me.