The same tough call here. Who in their right mind would run for office if they don't practice a religion and have the backing of the holy rollers in town--they'd be smeared by all of the self-righteous christians. "Holier-than-thou" is a real problem in politics.

That is not to say that all people who practice a religion act this way. I can say emphatcially that they don't. But those who do act this way act as though they speak for all. There are people gullible enough to believe them.

Today on one of the news talk programs on NPR they were enumerating the problems that are beginning to heap upon the Bush administration. Voters are beginning to grumble.

SRS