White Smoke for the Red States

Congratulations, fundamentalist evangelical protestants and neocons, you've got yourself a pope! He's the guy who advised U.S. Bishops to deny sacraments to the likes of John Kerry, and warned U.S. voters that a vote for the likes of Kerry could send them to hell, and he did so during the 2004 campaign. Oddly enough, the margin for Bush in Catholic votes made the difference, if you have that kind of faith in the integrity of the voting process in 04.

That he's one of the few remaining veterans of the Nazi Youth has to be considered just a little bonus.

Yahoo! News - New pope intervened against Kerry in US 2004 election campaign