Fringe and purge

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=7499

An incredible article by Frank Schaeffer on Bradblog about why he’s not a liberal:  “because he’s a conservative”

The blog piece is mind-blowing.

A snippet:

I grew up in a fundamentalist missionary family that in the 1970s and 80s morphed into my father’s activity as one of the founders of the Religious Right. We would hobnob with Republican leaders from Ronald Reagan to Gerald Ford and the Bush family, Jack Kemp and many others. One day it dawned on me that the far right of the Republican Party — in other words its base — actually hates America.

Go read it as soon as you can.