Who You Callin’ Clumsy, Little Buddy?
I have been a Tom DeLay UnFan Girl for a very long time. Too long. And the one thing I’ve learned is that if you need to know Tom’s shortcomings, watch him point them out … in other people.
This week, Tom DeLay wrote an editorial – well, he paid someone to write it – calling Donald Trump a “Clumsy Christian.”
Now, if you set to reading this thing, and I suggest you only do so if it’s a choice between reading it and re-roofing your own house, you’ll see something miraculous. DeLay says Trump is a “novice Christian” and that Timothy warned against novice Christians as church leaders,”lest being puffed up with pride he fall into the same condemnation as the devil.”
Puffed up? I think DeLay just made an unscheduled flight through the looking glass.
DeLay also objects to Trump’s accent.
When it comes to speaking the language of evangelical Christianity, Trump is like a first-semester foreign language student who tries to sound like he’s spoken the new lingo all his life. Native speakers understand right away that such a person is a beginner and try not to laugh in his face.
Trump would do well to learn from Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina and other candidates who speak evangelical Christianity with fluent ease because they really do have God deep in their lives, not just as a political facade.
So learning the language is enough? I kinda get the idea that you want him to learn only enough to form a religious justification for hateful behavior, you know, like Ted, and Marco, and Ben and Carly do.
Tom DeLay may not be a novice to Christianity but he’s certainly a novice to acting like a Christian.
I’m proud to say I speak several languages. Texan, southern, cajun, American and a bit of Spanish.
1What you hate about someone else is also what you hate about yourself and you just fail to recognize that trait, or refuse to acknowledge, that you do the same damned thing!
Hmmmm … my ex-husband was like that …
2OK, what else has a run down has been to do with his time? Answer: make an ass of himself.
3Marcia in CO: For regular people I think what you’re talking about is termed projection. For Tom Delay it’s called assholery. And to boot, lecturing Trump on Christianity? Bwahahahaha… Pot meet kettle.
4Tom DeLay giving lessons in being a Christian is like… wow, I’m really stretching for an analogy here. I’ve been an atheist since about 1978 and I could give better Christian lessons, if I cared to, than that bag of [omitted]. Let’s see…
Lessons in deportment from a heavy metal band famous for destroying hotel rooms. (There has to be at least one, right?)
Lessons in subtle, classic fashion from Lady Gaga at her height of absurdity.
Lessons in cage fighting from Deputy Barney Fife. (That’s the reverse of everything else, but I like it so I’m leaving it in.)
Lessons in ballet from a rampaging bull elephant in musth (their version of rut).
Lessons in aeronautics from ditto.
The football is on. If I think of any more, I’ll be back.
5As I recall Tom got kicked out of Baylor for not being sufficiently Baptist.
6It must be the political season, when every bonehead exercises their freedom to conflate the 1st and 2nd Amendments thus shooting off their mouths. DeLay’s legal staff must hate him. *If only* their client would shut up, maybe people would forget and they could strike a better deal for him. But noooooooooo, he must be heard. KERPOW!
7Trump told a crowd of nutjobs at kristian Dordt College in Sioux Center,iowa that he could stand on 5th Avenue and shoot some one and not lose any votes.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/01/24/trump-blasts-glenn-beck-for-cruz-endorsement.html
Sioux County is redder than the reddest red ever!
8Interesting that he feels the need to use the phrase “evangelical Christianity.” In other words, it takes a special adjective to describe DeLay’s version of what he thinks Christianity is.
As practiced currently “evangelical Christianity” is an oxymoron.
And DeLay is an evangelical moron. A mean one.
9Speaking of clumsy, didn’t DeLay nearly fall off the stage in “Dancing with the Stars”?
10Well Tom, he is running for President of the US, not pastor of the US.
11What kind of Christian he is or is not is not relevant.
Look that up in your Constitution.
About the time I first read this, the temperature was 66.6° F on the North shady side.
That evile sonofabitch Tom “Satan in Disguise” DeLay must have been traveling pretty close nearby to get a perfect 66.6° F reading…
(those talibangelicals really dig all that “number 666 Mark of the ol’ Debbil” stuff, stuperstitious fools all).
(dry dewpoint and not a cloud in sight, it’s 74° now on my weather station, and still climbing; eat yer widdle hearts out, blizzard-bound TWMDBSaloners)
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Thanks Sandridge. I had my air conditioner going yesterday here in nw iowa. Strong south winds blow right through this old 2 story farmhouse and dropped my living room temp down to 55 degrees. Supposed to be 60 degrees in the winter. Good thing propane is only 80 cents/gal instead of around $5 a couple years ago.
13If God spends his time in the lives of these people, his priorities are all screwed up.
14epo,
Heheh, do you ever do the ‘Snowbird’ thing and come down here for the winter?
We get eat up by snowbirds from October to around March or April. I don’t know how half of them survive the drive (they’re often lunatic ‘drivers’)*.
I’ve worked (and sometimes ‘lived’) in such climes, y’all note I never went back of my own free will (at this time of the year anyway)…
Actual data line string from WX station program history file (spaces added bracketing the pertinent temp, if you’re WX-minded you can figure out the rest):
“42195”;”2016-01-24 12:15″;”1015.6″;”80.3″;”29″; “66.6” ;”59″;”51.8″;”65.2″;”4.7″;”SE”;”8.3″;”0.00″;”23.03″
And that whole Iowa/NH lead primary thing, utterly stupid to let such a small cohort make supposedly major political decisions (opinion reinforced from watching some ‘news’ last night). Pox on it all…
* I long ago coined and quantified the “HSQ” driving index system, based on surviving many shared road miles with them (HSQ = Highway Stupidity Quotient).
15(heading for undisclosed location underground bunker now…)
Sandridge? Kiss my drifts!
16It’s so much fun hearing the KKKristians tear each other down. “Puffed up” pretty much describes the entire RKlan.
17Snowbirds I got-hardy little boogers. I have been as far sw of iowa as Omaha,Nebr. and south as far as Sedalia,Mo. I was in Minneapolis once in my life and as far west as Sioux Falls,SD. I have seen the Mississippi River twice in my 63 years. I live within 20 miles of my birthplace. I will travel when I’m dead. It is in my will. 🙂
18Based on the evidence to hand it is reasonable to think Jesus will say to Tom and He Trump “Depart from me; I never knew you.”
19I don’t hardly never watch TV but I veered that way one day and hung my mouth open when Tom DeLay announced to the host that he heard God talking to him, right in his ear and God told him it was time for a Constitutional convention. I guess Tom passed that on to Greg. No comment.
20Here in Minnesota we take pride in playing outside in subzero weather. We’re tough sons a birches.
(If I could afford it, I’d spend winters in Albuquerque. Don’t tell my neighbors!)
21(Or on a mesa in the checkerboard rez.)
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