Now that John McCain has rescinded endorsements he previously exhorted from John Hagee and Rod Parsley a question emerges.

One of the big incentives along with holding the religious right voting bloc intact, hoping he will get the same kind of boost from it that George W. Bush had previously, was the financial clout that such big buck televangelists bring to a presidential campaign.

We learn about the forbearance that McCain and other rightist Republicans displayed toward Texan Hagee and Ohioan Parsley.  

Even after Hagee had revealed that New Orleans received the tragic jolt of Hurricane Katrina because the city was slated to stage a gay pride parade and that Catholicism represented the great whore, he continued to be defended by McCain and Texas U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison.

To those wild spending, much vaunted moral guardian Republicans, their Halloween celebration is all tricks and no treats.

The other evening I listened to a tricky talk on TV by glib talking Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas.  As I heard her rant on about what a good job Republicans had done for the U.S. economy I thought that, in all fairness, Kay Bailey should instantly change her name to Kay Baloney Hutchison.

It took a lot of gall to declare that the Bush-led Republican robots had helped the U.S.A. economically.

The wild spending spree of the unneeded Iraq War with the ever-ascending $350 billion ever rising price tag debt represents the biggest national debit in the history of planet earth.

Once again, Ann (Plagiarist) Coulter, you expose yourself as a hate-filled propagandist whose physical emaciation is matched only by your intellectual anemia.

"It probably goes without saying that it is extraordinary for criminal charges to be thrown out by a judge before any jury ever hears the evidence. For the judge to dismiss an indictment before trial, it means he concluded that -- even if the jury finds everything Ronnie Earle alleges to be true -- no crime was committed."

Wow, Ann... now we know why you're so horrifically thin: You're constantly overreaching -- and burning-off way too many calories stretching the truth. The conspiracy charge wasn't thrown out because it was baseless, it was thrown out on a technicality:

...DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin argued that one of the charges -- conspiracy to violate the Texas election code -- did not even take effect until September 2003, a year after the alleged offenses occurred.

Prosecutors, however, said the crime of conspiracy was already on the books and could be applied to the election code even though such uses were not explicitly in state law at the time.

"Obviously, this was a huge victory for DeLay..."

Sure, it's a HUGE victory ... if you discount the fact that one charge was thrown out on a technicality while the more serious charge of money laundering stands, and the fact that the still-indicted DeLay is unable to return to his House post, and the fact that his party is looking to replace him, and the fact that he has to spend time and money to defend himself against criminal charges, and the fact that the latest legal development reminded voters that he's in trouble.

What are you waiting for, Annie? Break out the champagne!