To the Leftist alliance and their death cult priests, their Government Power is equal to God’s Kingdom.

While true believers of certain Christian religions disagree, it doesn’t mean they will vote Republican to “fix” problems…

The Hunger Games heroine shooting a bow, probably incited popular views. There were already zombie katana slayers on the net, as hobbyists. It’s pretty easy to combine these disparate groups if the threat is real or feasible.

(For those with especially long memories, a photo of Bob Hope might be appropriate…)

I stated some time ago that Romney or other election problems weren’t due to Republicans refusing to vote. It was due to all the dead Democrats in cities coming out.

Is it coincidence, do you suppose, that fiction about the “zombie apocalypse” is all the rage these days?

Republicans won’t pursue this strategy, because their base is more conservative than they are, and would upset the corrupt apple cart.

As things stand, I expect Republicans to retake the Senate, then largely sit on their hands for two years. They are worthless, most of them, but the base either doesn’t realize it or are too risk-averse.

Even then they are unlikely to gain much.

What is called the evangelical vote, is, it seems to me, divided between conservative Christians who understand politics and the principle of self-government, and members of sects who, rather like Libertarians, take a perverse pleasure in making futile and ultimately self-destructive gestures for the sake of the emotional fulfillment they derive from it.

Unfortunately, though, being a congressman is a very heady thing, and it’s easy to get corrupted, until as Guillory, quoting Thomas Sowell, points out in his very powerful anti-Landreiu commercial, you are just one of the “politicians”–“politicians (who) are not trying to solve your problems, they’re trying to solve their problems, of which getting elected and then reelected are number one and number two.”

The pay, the perks, the two thousand dollar suits and expensive jewelry, the glittering parties, the power and adulation, all of the people trying to butter you up and giving you things to get your influence on their side, the bowing and scraping just overwhelm people. People who may have come to Washington with good intentions and a reformist agenda but, in many cases, all that just gets overwhelmed and corrupted, as the outer shell remains but what was inside just withers away.

As I think I have written here before, in the first few congresses members were indeed “citizen legislators,” making the often long, arduous, uncomfortable, and sometimes dangerous trip from where they worked as farmers, lawyers, and businessmen to take up residence in crowded, hot, and uncomfortable boardinghouses in a Washington built on a just drained swamp where yellow fever was endemic (its no accident that the Congress was the first major instituiton in the U.S. to get air conditioning); they just wanted to get the minimum necessary work done, and then head back to their families and their real jobs, their work as legislators paid for at the glorious rate of $1.50 per day.

But, several congresses later, as congressmen started to set up homes so that they could stay in Washington much longer, that was the beginning of the end, as “professional politicians”–able to politic and meddle all year long–started to emerge.