My Paul Weyrich Obit

clipped from www.youtube.com Paul Weyrich, "father" of the right-wing movement and co-founder of the Heritage Foundation, Moral Majority and various other groups tells his flock that he doesn't want people to vote. He complains that fellow Christians have "Goo-Goo Syndrome": Good Government. Classic clip from 1980. This guy still gives weekly strategy sessions to Republicans nowadays. The entire dialog from the clip: "Now many of our Christians have what I call the goo-goo syndrome — good government. They want everybody to vote. I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people, they never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Weyrich, who died this morning, was a founding member of the religious right. Keeping a lower profile than similar minds like Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, Weyrich managed to continue his career of professional hatred, bigotry, and lies until the day he died. Good riddance.

For those of you reading this who are appalled that I'd be so callous on the occasion of a death of a fellow human being, I counter that Paul Weyrich wasn't a human being. He was hate and ignorance and antidemocratic philosophy incarnate.

Paul Weyrich, bigot, idiot, and great big fan of voter suppression, dead at 66. The world is no poorer for the loss.