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The religious right leaders and right-wing media predicting apocalyptic scenarios if President Obama is re-elected<\/a> are just playing political games.<\/p>\n

\u00a0When Robert Knight says an Obama victory will \u201cpush us over\u201d the edge into \u201closing our constitutional republic,\u201d or Matt Barber says the election is about \u201cgood vs. evil\u201d and \u201cmay determine whether we as a nation sink or swim, live or die,\u201d or when John Hagee says it will \u201cbring absolute socialism,\u201d they\u2019re just talking out of their collective asses. They don\u2019t really believe<\/em> it.
That wild talk is just pep-rally hyperbole that they don\u2019t really expect to come about any more than they really expected all of the horrific consequences they earlier predicted would come to pass when Vermont first allowed civil unions, or when \u201cDon\u2019t Ask, Don\u2019t Tell\u201d was repealed.
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