Holy-Roller Democrat

The Washington Post had an article Sunday about John Eaves, the Democrat who's challenging Haley Barbour in the Mississippi governor's race. Crazy, isn't it: there are two people in the world who want to be the governor of Mississippi. But this isn't your standard-issue Democrat, this guy is a pro-life, pro prayer-in-schools born-again nut who brags in his radio ads about how he baptized all three of his sons in the Jordan River. The Jordan River. Personally, I'd take my kid to Disney World for a vacation, but hey, the Dead Sea is nice, too.

The Democratic Party is cultivating more of these weirdos because they think that's the only way they can win in the South. And maybe they're right. But isn't one of the main selling points of the Democratic Party that it's relatively nut-free? I know we're all about big tents these days, but a tent that covers both this guy and Nancy Pelosi? There's not enough canvas in the world to make a tent that big.

Besides, southerners didn't embrace the Republican party because of religion, they embraced the Republican party because they don't kowtow to the blacks like the Democrats do.

Bill Maher is the host of HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher" which airs every Friday at 11PM