"A person should not be elected
 because of his faith nor should
 he be rejected because of his
 faith." 

–Mitt Romney

 Just like 40 years ago when America’s right wing had John Kennedy up against the religious ropes because the  guy was born a Catholic, hands rubbed together in glee these last few days waiting in lurid anticipation to learn how Republican Presidential candidate Willard Mitt Romney, who happens to have been born to a Mormon family, was going to save his candidacy from its assault from the Christian Right.

It’s hard to believe that 40 years after Kennedy had to defend his religion from an attack by the Protestant right, that America is Right back where it started and Romney is forced to defend his religious beliefs.

America ought to be spanked!

That’s right, politically, incorrectly, right-wing spanked for allowing this nonsense to continue!

What the hey is going on in this country anyway?

Romney, whose legendary rise to a consultant at Bain & Company and his founding of Bain Capital the private equity giant; former Republican Governor of Massachusetts; and hero of the Salt Lake City 2002 Olympic games -- also son of that other Mormon who never had to defend his religion, George Romney -- is in a battle religious with the Christian Right  and fellow candidate hellacious huckster Mike Huckabee  over who is a Christian and who is not and therefore who should be president of the NOT-Christian United States of America.

It’s ungodly.

Has America learned nothing since Kennedy’s days? It's as if America has been lost in a desert for forty years.

Americans’ bristle at the fanatics in the Middle-East who want to impose their ways upon us, when really, what is happening in this country isn’t any different then what is happening over there. American’s, like many middle easterners, have been held hostage by its religious fanatics, our al Queda-Christian Right. And what does this country have to show for it?

For two election cycles, really longer, the right wing religious radicals have turned our politics ugly and our leaders ineffective. Our House of Representatives and our Senate have stopped doing the people’s business even when they open each session with prayer.

Our foreign policy is in shambles. We call ourselves “Christian,” and true, we don’t fly planes into buildings and kill thousands to get people to see things our way. No, in the name of that old time religion, we just takeover entire countries and bring them to their praying knees until they see things our way.

And who has led us into this unfortunate battle? The Christian right.

Whether you’re a supporter of former Governor Romney or not you have to give him credit for trying to ignore the religious jabs being thrown at him all these months. Maybe, naively, he thought they’d go away. The guy seems a patient and self-contained man. But even the hair on Jesus’ back would bristle if some of the muck they've been throwing at Romney were thrown His way.

That pandering, phony, flagrantly-fanatical Philistine former pastor, Mike Huckabee, the candidate who in his campaign ad flashes the word “Christian” on the screen like some Nazi codeword -- really a wink that HE is, in fact, a Christian’s candidate and not Romney -- tossed a barrel of manure at Romney, even crossing the line of decency when he was asked recently if he thought Romney was a “Christian.” Huckabee smiled his devilishly-dimpled grin but never directly answered the question, and by not doing so, did.

It was a disgrace, the moment enough to make a person want to get down on her hands and knees and pray, or not, because that’s the American way.