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Lest we forget

I don't normally link to Daily Kos 'cause I'm just not that smart, plus I'm pretty sure everybody is already reading it, but I think it's important to note that there are some special things to remember about the Republicans and their fairweather approach to all issues moral. The blogosphere is full of quotes and instances where right wing loonies were spouting off about the Pope at one time, particularly regarding his opposition to the US's unprovoked invasion of, I mean "liberation" of, Iraq. But the quote below, for some reason, struck me hard.

Conservatives are attaching themselves like barnacles to the legacy of Pope John Paul II, portraying him as an ideological soulmate of President Bush. Of course, they haven't always felt that way - especially when the Pope was opposing the President's policies. Here's Sean Hannity, from January 2003

COLMES: ...And before you respond, let me just put up what the pope says. "No to war," says Pope John Paul II. "during his annual address to scores of diplomatic emissaries to the Vatican... `War is not always inevitable,' he said. `It is always a defeat for humanity.'"

Are these a bunch of wild-eyed liberal loonies?

HANNITY: Yes.

So there you have it.

posted by Anita at 12:16 PM