Ads Portray Nominee as Protector of Christmas

NYT reports that the Crazy Christians are running ads urging an Alito confirmation to save Christmas:

WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 - It is the time of year when bedtime stories and television specials often recall the plucky reindeer and the little girl of Whoville who managed to save Christmas. This year, some conservative groups are hoping to add a new name to that pantheon of heroes: Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., the Supreme Court nominee.

"Liberal groups like People for the American Way and the A.C.L.U. have opposed public Christmas and Hanukkah displays and even fought to keep Christmas carols out of school," declares a radio commercial paid for by the conservative Committee for Justice beginning Monday in Colorado, Wisconsin and West Virginia, states whose senators are considered pivotal votes on Judge Alito.

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Mr. Sekulow, who is the host of a Christian radio program and often appears on the Christian Broadcasting Network, says he has begun discussing Judge Alito's support for public Christmas displays regularly on his radio broadcast, including reading the Committee for Justice commercial. He said his organization was sending out e-mail messages to 850,000 supporters to urge their support for Judge Alito in the name of saving Christmas as well.

Ignore the absurdity, for a moment, that Christmas, already obnoxiously ubiquitous in the US from Thanksgiving to January, is somehow threatened (we could decrease "Christmas" by one half and I'd still consider it a hideous retail orgy).

How fucking arrogant of the these people to proclaim that the Almighty, Jesus Christ, the King of Kings, God incarnate as Man, the Lord, the Alpha and the Omega, the Author of Eternal Salvation, the Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Prince of Peace needs protection from a right-wing asshole who believes it's ok for cops to strip-search 10 year old girls and shoot fleeing 15 year old boys in the back of the head.

What does it say about their view of God anyway?

Also, gotta give Barry Lynn credit for a great line:

"If they think that hitching Samuel Alito to Santa's sleigh is going to eliminate serious issues about his regard for the Constitution, I think they are mistaken," Mr. Lynn said.