Reply #24: palin is a useful idiot of a figurehead (think ol' ronnie reagan)

[Cerridwen]

who can lead around another bunch of useful idiots using her "sex appeal" and the limited knowledge and ignorance of her cult followers.

There is currently in the US, somewhere between 24 and 27% of the polled population who have religiously supported the most extreme of the neo-con moves, legislature, and/or figureheads/leaders. shrub routinely had their support; I believe that's about the same percentage who believe that global warming is a myth and that evolution is a theory. If that is the same 24 - 27%, that is a significant minority.

If you take into account that for 40 or so years the leadership of these idiots has been priming them to follow unquestionably, that significant minority is telling. Add in the use of "religion," and you have a mindless group of people willing to ask "how high" when told to jump.

"Christians, like slaves and soldiers, ask no questions."
Jerry Falwell

If Christian people work together, they can succeed during this decade in winning back control of the institutions that have been taken from them over the past 70 years. Expect confrontations that will be not only unpleasant but at times physically bloody.... This decade will not be for the faint of heart, but the resolute. Institutions will be plunged into wrenching change. We will be living through one of the most tumultuous periods of human history. When it is over, I am convinced God's people will emerge victorious.
-- Pat Robertson, Pat Robertson's Perspective Oct-Nov 1992

We at the Christian Coalition are raising an army who cares. We are training people to be effective -- to be elected to school boards, to city councils, to state legislatures, and to key positions in political parties.... By the end of this decade, if we work and give and organize and train, THE CHRISTIAN COALITION WILL BE THE MOST POWERFUL POLITICAL ORGANIZATION IN AMERICA
-- Pat Robertson, in a fundraising letter, July 4, 1991

The moral majority became the christian coalition. The christian coalition has found a home in the tea party. Watch the names of their leaders. Watch the ties.

palin is their latest useful idiot to "lead" their useful idiots.

The question I keep asking is, where are they being led? For what purpose? Who benefits?