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Honestly, I've never thought of myself as a danger to anyone. Well, except perhaps to my lawn and plants: I admit, I do not have a green thumb.

But, a danger? As in, a scary person? Nope, never thought that. Heck, I remember crying when, as a child, I shot a bird with my BB gun! How could anyone consider me dangerous?

Be that as it may, apparently, I am a danger. At least, that is how Robert Novak, king of slime, thinks of me. An awful lot of other otherwise thoughtful people agree with and champion his views that I am a dangerous person. You see, this is what Mr. Novak said of me and people like me while ranting against Mike Huckabee:

The rise of evangelical Christians as the motive force that blasted the GOP out of minority status during the past generation always contained an inherent danger if these new Republican acolytes supported not merely a conventional conservative but one of their own.

That would be me. I am an "evangelical Christian", at least as far as I know. Definitions change so fast these days, it's hard to keep up. But as much as people consider themselves Jewish, Muslim or Buddhist, I consider myself an evangelical Christian. Want to know why, you'll have to email me, that is not my purpose for writing this.

I'm not sure what he means by "new Republican acolytes". I've voted Republican in every election, save Ross Perot, since becoming old enough to vote. But I'm certain of what he means by evangelical Christians – a group of people that politicians, particularly Republicans, like to use for their benefit and then toss to the curb after elections. After all, if you want to trash someone without recourse, what better group to pick on?

Politics is a nasty business. And that is unfortunate for those of us that have stars in our eyes. I'm quite certain that Mr. Huckabee can handle the nastiness, lies, distortions and smears of his record; he's been elected many times and must be used to it. That doesn't make it right; it just makes it what it is.

But I must ask myself why it has to be this way for the ordinary folk, those people that just want to see someone who shares their values elected to office? Why must they be labeled "an inherent danger" at the same time they are being asked for their support for candidates that share only a portion of their values? Do the political elite of the Republican Party see us in the same light as the Democrat Party sees the black vote? An automatic pull of the lever for Republicans?

If so, I think they are making a huge mistake. Whether we turn to the Democrat nominee (shudder) or go third party (another shudder) or sit this one out and not vote at all, the establishment Republicans take us for granted and disparage us at their own peril. Perhaps we are "dangerous" after all.

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