A stretch, at best
From the Atlanta Journal Constitution:
Columbus — Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.
“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.”
Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.
“I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.
McCain might have his better points, but I don’t think this is an appropriate correlation to draw at all. While I’m sure that he endured far more than most of us ever will, I still don’t think it was comparable to what Jesus endured for you and for me.
All this statement does is serve to show that Republicans will do everything they can to manipulate the religious vote based on even the flimsiest of analogy and allegory. Republican voters, and certainly evangelical voters, deserve better than this.
One Response to “A stretch, at best”
By BlogD on Aug 6, 2008 | Reply
How does she feel about McCain repeatedly announcing that he “really didn’t love America” before he was tortured?
Maybe this lady saw the recent Republican smear ad making it look like Obama thought he was the Second Coming, mistook it for an Obama ad, and figured she had to show McCain was just as good…
As for McCain “loving America,” to loosely quote Aaron Sorkin, what’s with these people who say they love America but clearly hate Americans?