In a comment to an earlier post, I asked if I was allowed to ask a question:

Am I allowed to ask whether God put the Republicans in charge of morality?

Whether God actually put the Republicans in charge of morality is of course an unanswerable question. But if there is a group of voters who see the GOP as the Party of God, they might think he did, and either way they're probably thinking that the Republicans have let God down.

Personally, I think it would be a tactical mistake for the Republicans to claim that they're the party of God, because all people have moral failings, but a claim to godliness makes the same moral failing more egregious in a godly person than in a secular person. (The Jimmy Swaggart phenomenon.)

This is not to say that the Republicans have officially made any such claim, for they haven't. But the political reality is that there are people on the left who think they have. And there are people on the right who think they have, or should.

If these two groups are able to reinforce each other, it might spell trouble.

(I'm glad I'm not in charge.)

MORE: No one enjoys hear anyone saying "I told you so," but for this blog, the issue of losers working in collusion is old, old, old.

UPDATE: Via Pajamas Media (which also has a good roundup on the Foley scandal), a report in the Weekly Standard about conservatives who are rooting for Republican defeat. What if the voters go ahead and vote for Republicans just to spite them? How will the Democrats be able to mete out the lesson the Republicans deserve?

Stay tuned.