Closer, My Checkbook, To Thee

Ralph Reed, on being abandoned by Christian conservative voters in the Georgia Lt. Gov. primary: "God uses our mistakes to draw us closer to him."

Translation: "I have sinned and grown more perfect as a result." When you're that big a hypocrite, that sort of contortion is not only possible. It's required.

Apparently, Reed can hope for a career wearing a paper sack over his head, sort of "The Unknown Born-Again" of Republican politics.