Jiminy Jeebus

If being an "Unctuous Tool" is the main virtue of modern journalism, Mike Allen should have a shitload of Pulitzers.

And sadly, he's not even the worst cretin of the bunch at the Politico. Roger Simon has intense "mancrushes" that put Chris Matthews to shame:

FIRST PLACE: Mitt Romney

Analysis: Strong, clear, gives good soundbite and has shoulders you could land a 737 on...

BAD TOUCH!

And then there is this:

His strongest line came about his being a Mormon: “I also believe that there are some pundits out there that are hoping that I’ll distance myself from my church so that that’ll help me politically. And that's not going to happen.”

Okay Mitt, that means it should be discussed.

-- Joseph Smith, who in polite society would have been called a flim-flam artist for his prior history of claiming to find treasure by using "seeing stones" (convicted actually) shortly thereafter bases a religion on magically disappearing "Gold Plates"; says Jeebus came to America; that Native Americans are really from Palestine but were greedy and killed the last of the "Good Tribe of Israel" in Western New York and then God made them dark-skinned in reprisal. All known through the angel Moroni, the last white guy in North America until either the Vikings or the Puritans. And then fifteen years into the faith ol' Joe conveniently has a vision saying his midlife crisis is no problem and he can marry as many women as he wants.

ooooooooooooooo-kay.

...and then we'll talk about Brigham Young, wink and a nod polygamy; his scriptural racism; and "the Mountain Meadows Massacre" and whether or not you should really be going on and constantly bashing Islam extremism considering the items in your own religion's past and present. And none of these, of course, are slanders, they are all fact. To be fair, such things could be drummed up for every faith (or political ideology) and its occasional prophets and/or accused false prophets but being more recent, the Mormons are better documented and 'thems the breaks'. Further, I think, to anger as many faiths as possible, if you put Abraham, Paul of Tarsus, Mohammad and Joseph Smith in the same room you'd be shocked at how similar they all are to one another.

Since you are putting it on the table and all.