Bigger Than Jesus Now

There are a lot of people you can use as a comparison point to John McCain - the Cryptkeeper, Gen. Buck Turgidson from Dr. Strangelove, The Great Santini. But other than noting a comparable age, I wouldn't have used Jesus Christ.

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party's presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

"John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross," Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. "He never denounced God, either."

Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.

I'm not trying to compare McCain to Christ, I'm just saying he's like Christ on the cross.

What's really mind-blowing about this is that she's saying this in the context of both McCain and Christ being tortured, which of course is a centerpiece of conservative terror-fighting strategy in the Age of Bush.