Haggard's Penchant For Gay Sodomy Blamed On Haggard's Wife! (Plus -- Libby Dole Really Is An Asshole)

Warning: This post addresses GOP sexual problems so you might want to get the kids out of the room before you read it.

Here is what Evangelical Pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle has to say about Pastor Haggard's Gay Sex Scandal (via Huffington Post):

"Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. At the risk of being even more widely despised than I currently am, I will lean over the plate and take one for the team on this. It is not uncommon to meet pastors' wives who really let themselves go; they sometimes feel that because their husband is a pastor, he is therefore trapped into fidelity, which gives them cause for laziness. A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either."

God, I sure do miss the good old days when male right-wing religious leaders who weren't getting enough at home would simply go out and engage in sexual relations with female prostitutes.

Meanwhile, first-class asshole Libby Dole was on Tim Russert's show this morning and she had this to say:

"It's almost as if the Democrats are content with losing because to pull out -- to withdraw from this war -- is losing."

When the two "outraged" Democrats on the show wanted to respond to that comment, Dole wouldn't let them talk and just continued to spew raw sewage for a couple minutes and neither of the Democrats were actually able to give much of a response to Dole.

Here's how I would have responded if (1) I was still a Democrat, and (2) I had been on Russert's program:

"Mrs. Dole -- if I was really content with losing in Iraq, then I'd be voting for the Republicans this year, because you Republicans are the ones who lost this war. It was a bad idea from the start to invade Iraq, and the GOP compounded their initial screw-up through years of mismanagement and just plain idiocy.

So don't lecture me on how I want to lose in Iraq, Mrs. Dole. I could go out and get a frontal lobotomy and still do a better job managing this war than you folks did. In fact, your party and our Deserter-In-Chief were so profoundly incompetent with regard to this war that your failures in Iraq almost amount to treason."

Unfortunately, the Democrats are, for the most part, reluctant to aggressively respond to the GOP slime machine, and that is why I refuse to jump on the bandwagon and predict the Democrats will seize control of the House this Tuesday. I just don't think the Democrats have what it takes to win, even though they couldn't have asked for a better political climate.

And, while I am on the subject, Bill Maher gave some great advice to the Democrats on how to deal with the GOP Slime Machine:

When [the Republicans] say the terrorists want the Democrats to win, you say: "Are you insane? George Bush has been a terrorist's wet dream. He inflames radical hatred against America and then runs on offering to protect us from it. It's like a guy throwing shit on you and then selling you relief from the flies."

Right on, Bill.

And by the way, this is how you deal with extreme right-wing talking heads -- you respond to their talking points and then viciously counter-attack. Watch it and learn.