No,no, we’re talking about the theological usage of Crisco, you Godless secularists. Per Andre Tartar at NYMag‘s Daily Intel:
A group of 150 of the country’s leading social conservative and evangelical leaders met yesterday on a ranch outside Houston and, after three rounds of balloting, decided who they wanted as their official anyone-but-Romney alternative: Rick Santorum. Though the meeting was described by some as ‘too little, too late,’ it was still seen as the last great hope for a real challenge to Mitt Romney who, after his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, has already begun to give off that “inevitable nominee” glow. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, who described the meeting as “not a ‘bash Mitt Romney'” one, told the Washington Post: “I will have to admit that what I did not think was possible appears to be possible. There is clearly a unified group here.” While much of the recent media focus has been on the Romney Bain-baiting in South Carolina coming from Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry, this endorsement may be enough to boost Santorum in South Carolina, a heavily evangelical state…
From my perspective as a lifelong cynic and Democrat (but I repeat myself), this is all Good News for Our Side. First off, Erick Erickson and his Redstate fellows are going to be sobbing into their gated-community megachurch banana mochacchinos Sunday morning, for the insult against Erick’s manly Christianist mancrush Rick Perry, and also because Rick ‘Blah People’ Santorum is both unelectable and a God-damned statist. Second, it’s going to further inflame the ever-sensitive amore prope of Newton Leroy Gingrich, than whom no other self-professed historian is better prepared to go medieval on every one of his many opponents’ arses. Third, presenting Richard Santorum, the candidate most dedicated to the idea that if you don’t want him rummaging through your underwear drawer then there must be something wrong with you, as the Select alternative is going to inspire a lot of those much-courted “independent” voters to… well, if we can’t inspire them to vote for President Obama’s re-election, at least we can discourage them into staying home rather than adding their mite to the ( R ) tally.