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When "I am a Christian" is the first thing on their resume.

The above ad is not, I repeat NOT, a parody.

It is the real honest to goodness ad for crazy Teabagger, Dan Patrick a state senator who is now aiming for the Lt. Governor position in Texas.

He is also the guy whose Twitter account featured this tweet a few days back:

When Dan Patrick has a twitter typo, he has one heck of a twitter typo. pic.twitter.com/1gRwqKqNGP
— Michael Li (@mcpli) February 26, 2014

Yeah, but of course that was the fault of some underling who is too stupid to tweet what the Senator wanted tweeted, right? I mean is not ignorant enough to have made the mistake himself.

Yeah right.

As the political advertisement says Patrick is the guy who pushed for the mandatory sonograms for women seeking abortion in Texas, so that they can be humiliated before making one of the most difficult decisions of their life. And he is also the guy who sprinkled references to God all over Texas politics.

What better way to prove his Christy credentials.

Now call me a cynic (Trust me I have been called worse.) but when somebody puts their Christian faith at the top of their list of attributes, that simply makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and for me red flags start waving all over the damn place.

I naturally assume that pretty much every politician running for office in Texas is a Christian (After all it IS Texas!), so when one of them gets all up in my face over their faith my first instinct is that they are somebody who does not want to be looked at too carefully, and instead hopes that Christianity provides a cloak of obfuscation that will immediately instill trust.

Of course only a moron believes that simply self identifying as a Christian automatically makes somebody trustworthy.

And as it turns out, Texas has more than its fair share of morons.

This from TFN Insider:

The Dallas Morning News reports that four Texas politicians — politicians often aligned with religious-right groups that use faith as a political weapon — were among the victims of a Ponzi-like scheme run by a North Texas businessman. It seems they trusted the scammer because he appeared to be a good Christian and “godly man.”

According to the Morning News, state Rep. Bill Zedler, R-Arlington; state Rep. Phil King, R-Weatherford; state Sen. Ken Paxton, R-McKinney; and former state Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, invested separately a total of $331,000 in an energy-trading finance company. They were among more than 20 other Texans who invested about $2.5 million in Archer Bonnema’s company, Pirin Electric.

Bonnema, who claimed to have helped find Noah’s Ark on Mount Ararat a few years back, appears to have specifically targeted Christian conservatives as potential investors.

Well of course he did, who could possibly be more gullible?

"I'm a Christian, would I lie to you?" The answer is of course they would.

And it happens all of the time. In fact our prisons are bulging with Christians.

Dan Patrick's Christian credentials should not immediately ingratiate him to the voters of Texas, instead they should have their guard up and their critical thinking skills turned up to high.

Because as Thor is my witness, this guy is up to no good.

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