Tea Party: dangerous or stupid?

I embrace the power of and. Article reproduced in full below.

Republican Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell of Delaware is questioning whether the U.S. Constitution prohibits the government from establishing religion.

In a debate at Widener University Law School, O'Donnell criticized Democratic nominee Chris Coons' position that teaching creationism in public school would violate the First Amendment by promoting religious doctrine.

O'Donnell asked where the Constitution calls for the separation of church and state. When Coons responded that the First Amendment bars Congress from making laws respecting the establishment of religion, O'Donnell asked: "You're telling me that's in the First Amendment?"

The exchange Tuesday aired on radio station WDEL generated a buzz among law professors and students in the audience.

These goddamned ignorant motherfucking shitheads claim to be the only true protectors of our precious American Constitution, yet their fucking poster child can't even be arsed to know what the fuck the fucking thing says.

I mean, it's right fucking here on the internet! And I'll even reproduce the entirety of the First Amendment right here on my internet journal!

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Americans: if you vote Tea Party, you're voting for ignorant bullshit. Oh, sure, they mouth the Libertarian paradise words "lower taxes" and "smaller government," but really they're the fucking Gingrich-Pat Robertson-Ralph Reed axis back in the spotlight.

And fuck them, and fuck YOU if you vote for them.

More Christine O'Donnell

She doesn't want to state that she believes in creationism. She dances around the topic, doing the whole "schools should be able to teach what they think is right at the local level" two-step. Video included. (She also has no idea what Marxism actually is; she just parrots the republibertarian "it's about raising taxes and keeping the death tax" talking point.)

As is noted in the link above, creationism is RELIGIOUS in origin. The First Amendment, which we've already shown she doesn't understand, forbids the government from doing anything that gives preference to one religion over another (or over any religion at all).

ETA: Video of the exchange in which O'Donnell asks, "That's in the First Amendment?" Have your context. Also, note that she does That Thing Libertarians Do, which is talk down and act all "I'm the reasonable one here, you're the wackaloon" while saying the most utterly outrageous shit.

This dovetails neatly with a post I read earlier by Mike the Mad Biologist, about Movement Conservatives. He quotes extensively from Terrence at Republic of T and Thomas at Yes Means Yes, but these are his own words. His concluding paragraph.

Everything I learned about movement conservatives I learned from creationists (and the union between the two sets is rather large...): they can't admit what they really believe, so they dissemble around it. Teaching the controversy and so forth.

What O'Donnell does in the video linked above, and in every interview she's given since winning the primary, is dissemble. It's the only thing she can do, because if she gave a straight answer, people would see her for the Christianist she is. And I fervently hope that a majority of my fellow citizens wouldn't vote for a Christianist who wants to take us back to 1810.

The opposite is too frightening to contemplate. It makes me want to take my chances with a "failed" multikulti country.

PS: Hey Angie, Thilo called. He wants his Islamophobia back.