One woman's kingmaker is another woman's scumbag

According to MSNBC, the three "kingmakers"--Jerry Falwell, James Dobson and Pat Robertson--have about made up their minds which Republican presidential candidate to support. The decisions have come about against a backdrop of turf-fighting, of course.

Falwell appears to be going with Sen. John McCain, the vicious, right-wing panderer and hypocrite from Arizona. According to MSNBC, that alone eliminates McCain as Robertson's favorite, since Robertson would not be caught dead supporting Falwell's candidate. Robertson is leaning toward panderer and hypocrite Mitt Romney, former governor of Massachusetts.

That leaves child- and dog-beater James Dobson, who hasn't made a decision, but who is said to favor former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister Mike Huckabee.

This leaves former New York mayor and enemy of civil liberties Rudy Giuliani out in the cold, but perhaps William Donohue can endorse him.

Though we probably won't see the kind of worship we saw when fundamentalist Christians organized their worship of the lying, murdering, democracy-destroying George W. Bush, I think we will still see an organized movement behind whoever can demonstrate the most hate against gays and women. The up-front marketing of bigotry began with Reagan, and was brought into full fruition by W. Bush (and when I say that, I mean Dick Cheney, of course). The next Republican candidate has permission to publicly bash people of color, women and members of the LGBT community, as part of his campaign.