[BlackElk]

As a treasonous weasel, paleoPaulie attacks patriotism. I don’t know what paleoPaulie does with his Sunday mornings but he is obviously not very respectful of Christianity, as is obvious from his remarks. Like most antiAmerican antiwar peacecreeps and moonbats, paleoPaulie is just being paleoPaulie or Neville Chamberlain or George McGovern or Ramsay Clark or Cynthia McKinney or Cindy Sheehan or whomever.

[Wallace T.]

The context of Ron Paul's citation of the quotation attributed to Sinclair Lewis originally related to the latter's experience in the 1920s, when the Ku Klux Klan, the closest thing America has ever had to a European style fascist movement, very much wrapped themselves in the Christian cross and the United States flag. The 1920s KKK was as much, if not more, anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic, as it was anti-black. The organization had great strength in places like Maine, Indiana, Colorado, and Oregon, where blacks were few, and also in parts of the Northeast and Upper Midwest where there were also large numbers of white Catholics, mostly recent immigrants or their offspring. The Klan failed, unlike the Italian fascists or the German Nazis, because it lacked a charismatic, dynamic Duce or Fuhrer and was plagued with a corrupt, disorganized, and venal leadership at the national level and in many states. Additionally, the Klan's opponents, Catholics, Jews, blacks, and liberals, were way too numerous in America to have permitted a relatively easy takeover had the organization been led by a Mussolini or a Hitler.

The dynamics of American Protestantism have changed drastically since the 1920s, Sinclair Lewis' heyday. The modernist-fundamentalist split had not yet been fully completed at the time. At present, liberal Protestantism and its conservative opposition are wholly divorced. Sociologists treat mainline Protestants and evangelicals to be as distinct from each other as both are from Catholics. Evangelicals are friendlier at least towards conservative Catholics than at any time since the Reformation. The rise of dispensational theology in evangelical circles and the impact of the Holocaust have routed past tendencies toward anti-Semitism, although many Jews still distrust evangelicals. White segregationist sentiments have likewise disappeared. By the 1980s, conservative Baptist preachers like Jerry Falwell and W.A. Criswell apologized for the pro-segregation statements they had made in the 1950s.

While Mike Huckabee is a nanny state advocate and may be playing the Christian card unfairly against Mitt Romney, it is equally unfair for Ron Paul to imply that Huckabee is a fascist by quoting a long-dead author out of historical context.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

As a treasonous weasel, paleoPaulie attacks patriotism.

Sure he does bub.

I don’t know what paleoPaulie does with his Sunday mornings but he is obviously not very respectful of Christianity, as is obvious from his remarks.

Uh, he probably goes to church on Sunday. Several of his brothers are in the ministry. In fact, Paul contemplated on going into the ministry himself before the medical field was calling.

Like most antiAmerican antiwar peacecreeps and moonbats, paleoPaulie is just being paleoPaulie or Neville Chamberlain or George McGovern or Ramsay Clark or Cynthia McKinney or Cindy Sheehan or whomever.

Yeah, yeah, yeah...PAUL'S A KOOK!