[Alex Murphy]

....today, Tea Party activists are being guilted by free association with random lunatic Jared Lee Loughner. Imagine if, 20 years from now, Loughner were free, and tenured, and influential in right-wing politics. Imagine that some young conservative-- say, Duncan Paul, Rand Paul's son -- befriended Loughner and used his home for a political fundraiser, which launched Paul on a career that finally led him to the White House. Imagine that Duncan Paul's childhood mentor turned out to be a fundamentalist Christian theocrat. Imagine that it emerged he worshipped at a radical right-wing, racialist church.

Anti-Protestantism: the last acceptable prejudice among Catholics.

[Salvation]

I think the article was talking about Rev. Wright.

[Salvation]

Or are you talking about this link?

Or this link?

[Mrs. Don-o]

Alex, c'mon. Read in context.

Zmirak has contructed a theoretical situation in which a fundamentalist Christian conformed to all the polar-opposite points of the Obama/Ayers (radical Marxist) careers. His template is "Here's what the Left would see as the perfectly-symmetrical, mirror-image Other Side."

It's not a slam on fundamentalist Christians: the conceptual pivot is how the Left would see fundamentalist Christians.

A hermeneutic of irony works here.