Reply #18: I'm not arguing against your position on this, but I am imaging a

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position in which Franklin Graham, who used to be quite the hell-raiser but who of late SAW THE LIGHT of his father's massive financial holdings -- I mean THE TRUTH AND THE WAY OF THE HOLY SPIRIT -- and says to himself, 'Well, hell, the old man's about to kick off any day, I might just as well thrust myself into the public limelight.'

It would establish him as the nation's premier fundamentalist nutbag media religious celebrity.

McCain's going to lose the election, but Franklin Graham would win a huge donor base and valuable connections. He would go from being an inheritor of a legend to the guy who's at a huge control panel of events.