In the credit where credit is due file, leaders of the moral majority (Gary Bauer, Richard Land, Penny Nancy) have come out in favor of electric cars.

Electrifying the transportation system is the most feasible way of displacing oil. Electricity therefore represents a practical solution and offers exactly what oil lacks: a domesticlaly produced, stable source of energy that cannot be cut off by our enemies. The advangates are clear. Our economy would be insulated from devasating price shocks and we would no longer be funding hostile regimes that seek our demise.

I gotta say, more of this and less obsession with sex, and you might have me voting Republican again.

On a completely different tangent, it will be interesting to see what the Christian Right does if the Republicans manage to retake the House and Senate in November. I wonder whether they'll stick with their traditional talking points of Gays are Evil and Sex is Bad. Or whether they'll shift to talking about the economy and the importance of jobs. Because you know what's really important to the health of the American family, working parents. Do you think Christians in Ohio are spending their days worried about prayer in schools or gay marriage. No. They're worried where there next paycheck is going to come from.  The Democrats have left a huge opening for some political group to come in and say "Hey, we're very concerned about the financial health of the American family. And the best way to improve that health is to get Americans working again."  Evanglicals would be smart to jump on that bandwagon.

But I bet they don't, because morons like James Dobson are worried less about whether his followers have a job and more aboout whether they might stumble across porn on the internet. Meh.