The Conservative Id, Part 347

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LA Times columnist Steve Lopez visits a living room full of conservatives in California’s Central Valley:

Obama is a socialist, said Ray Vercammen. He may be faking his so-called Christianity, said Sam Ackerman. And he wouldn’t be much of a public speaker if not for TelePrompTers, said Loron Hodge….”The Mexicans, they have abused this country and we have let it happen,” said Ben Strode.

….”What’s happening in this country,” said Hodge, director of a ministry that provides food and clothing to those in need, is downright scary. With all this “abortion and homosexuality,” he went on, the United States may be headed for a hell “worse than Pearl Harbor, worse than 9/11.”

“God,” Hodge said, “will not be mocked.”

Turns out almost all of them are for Santorum. Are you surprised?

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