Anti-Romney Anchluss?

That's what Rush Limbaugh suspects, according to Newsmax Insider Report:

Talk radio host Rush Limbaugh suspects that John McCain may have cut a deal with GOP presidential rival Mike Huckabee to have Huckabee siphon off votes from Mitt Romney.

Rush said that on the day after McCain’s victory in the New Hampshire primary, McCain told reporters that Christian conservatives should back him, saying: “A very large portion of the evangelical community is becoming more and more concerned about climate change because of our biblical obligation to be good stewards of our planet. That clearly is an issue that I’m in complete sync with the evangelical community on.”

Noting that Huckabee was thought to control the evangelical vote, Rush told listeners: “Governor Huckabee, at this stage, in my opinion, is in the race to take Romney out of the way for McCain…

McCain also reminded reporters that he has voted the anti-abortion line during his entire career.

Said Limbaugh: “In that way he’s going to take out Rudy [Giuliani, who has expressed support for abortion rights],” Rush said.

“So he’s going to try to get the Huckabee vote with the global warming route and try to get the evangelicals. He’s going to try to take Rudy out with his consistent abortion stand, which he is not fabricating.”

Judging by the results in Michigan on Tuesday, this deal didn't work out quite as intended, as Mitt Romney won the evangelical vote there by five points over Huckles and eleven points over McCain.  It probably wasn't the brightest idea to push environmentalist paganism in a state that is already in a long-term recession and would be economically decimated by "Sailor's" mythical "global warming" nonsense.  Nor was it evincing of Christian charity for the Arizona senator to tell Michiganders distressed at the decline of the US automotive industry, in essence, "Sorry, guess it sucks to be you, go apply at McDonalds," a most illiberal stand for a left-leaning Rockefeller Republican to take, and one that Governor Romney wasted no time in (shamelessly) exploiting.

I guess the Sith Master really does consider evangelicals to be sheep if he thought that the greenstremist apostasies of a few "mainline" CINO (Christians In Name Only) leaders would drag the rest of us along with them.  Leave it to an Australian Catholic Cardinal to lay down the facts that Lord Queeg (among infamous others) doesn't want to hear:

A cardinal in the Catholic Church says the hysteria over man-made climate change is akin to a “new religion” and a symptom of “pagan emptiness.”

Cardinal George Pell of Sydney, Australia, has been the target of criticism in his country for expressing doubts about the validity of man-made global warming.

In an interview that appeared in the Catholic World Report, he said: “Right now, the mass media, politicians, many church figures, and the public generally seem to have embraced even the wilder claims about man-made climate change as if they constituted a new religion.

“These days, for any public figure to question the basis of what amounts to green fundamentalist faith is tantamount to heresy.”...

He said some of the more “hysterical and extreme” claims about impending climate change “appear symptomatic of a pagan emptiness, of a Western fear when confronted by the immense and basically uncontrollable forces of nature…

“It’s almost as though people without religion, who don’t belong to any of the great religious traditions, have got to be frightened of something. Perhaps they’re looking for a cause that is almost a substitute for religion.”

Well, now, that would suit "Maverick" John McCain just fine, wouldn't it?  Maybe followers of Jesus Christ are not the "evangelicals" he's courting after all.  Unfortunately for him, the breed he seeks tends to inhabit the other party, and while Democrats may someday dictate the Republican presidential nomination, that day is not today.

As to the genuine article, if Michigan is any indication, they're beginning to drift away from his Sith apprentice, Darth Scudder, as well.

Looks like Darth Queeg has a ways to go before mastering the Dark Side of the Force after all.

Thank God.