[kjvail]

Another idiot that uses big words he doesn't know the meaning of.

[msjhall]

I thought America sent a clear message to Gary Hart when he ran for president.

[yldstrk]

What rock did he climb out from under?!

[Alexander Rubin]

Mr. Hart, I am definitely an Old Testament, rules based approach kind of guy. And I'm telling you "don't do that".

[ICE-FLYER]

Of course former Senator Hart would say these things. Pure religion to Liberals is a "Journey" which leaves evry bit of room they desire to disregard what they do not liek about their claimed faith and say that you are intolerant for embracing what they reject. Classic, and by the way...its what Satan did to Jesus when he tempted HIM in the desert. Used a little bit of truth to deceive.

[Enchante]

"was touting a slim new volume"

I guess a SLIM volume is all he's capable of writing on the subject..... not that I would want to read a 600 page tome from Hart on this or anything, but it is interesting how he appears to have barely filled the space between the covers.... it's probably just a glorified article that could have been submitted to Harper's......

[msnimje]

Gary "Monkey Business" Hart will never be taken seriously by anyone.

[Brilliant]

What a fool.

[Clemenza]

[Sociopathocracy]

Hart, who holds a Yale divinity degree, said he turned away from a rule-based Old Testament approach of "don't do that"

Yeah, when he started holdin' Donna Rice's butt!

[doug from upland]

Religion has less influence than ever in our society and they are worried about a theocracy. Just amazing.

[giobruno]

The language of religion was considerably more prevalent in the previous 200 years than today, even the left 75 years ago didn't hesitate to invoke God and religious imagery to bless their cause; the secular obsession is new.

[Cruz]

Democrats are consistantly anti-Christian, anti-military, anti-American, and anti-economic growth. It is truly a shame what the Democratic Party has become.

[IndyInVa]

I don't believe that religious groups hve much influence. If they did, I would be very concerned.

I DO believe that people with religious beliefs have influence. I think this is a good thing. I would hate to find out that only the Godless heathens had any say about anything. At least with a religious person, you have some idea of what he stands for. You can agree or disagree, but at least he stands for something.

Another factor that the fear-mongers on the left don't want known is that the so-called religious right does not speak with a single voice. If they did, Kerry would have been running as a Republican.

[giobruno]

He's a vain, emotional, sissy, pacifist, secular, social-gospel Christian in the mold of Jimmy Carter.

[Zeppo]

Imagine, Hart said, the reaction if the Kennedy White House had sounded out the pope about a high-court nominee.

Even if one were to accept his basic premis (which would be a mistake because it is so wrongheaded), it should still be clear to even the casual observer that Gary Hart doesn't even understand the difference between taking direction from the Pope, who was not an American citizen, and taking direction from American citizens...

[Fzob]

"Once you get ... to that kind of insistence of veto power over the judiciary of America, you are in very, very dangerous grounds, and that's where we are," Hart said.

Reading this leads me to believe Hart has been drinking heavily since that Rice incidence. It obviously has negatively effected any critical thinking skill he may had.

[muawiyah]

Sounds like Gary Hart translates "religious right" as an euphemism for "Protestant".

Wonder who purchases this idiots books?

[lexington minuteman 1775]

Let me get this straight Gary, you believe in being a liberal and put down others religion? Then you claim to follow the Sermon on the Mount?
I have follwed politics for a long time, and I have yet to hear of a person running for Congress who touted setting up a Theocracy.

[Popman]

America risks becoming a theocracy because of the religious right's sway over politics former U.S. Sen. Gary Hart warned Thursday...

What is scary is the fact, there are people in the country who actually believe this nonsense.

Hart should and probaly bdoes know better, which tells me he is using this theocracy ruse as a tool to manipulate people or maybe for fund raising