A Progressive Pope is Driving the Wingnuts Batty

Pope Francis at Varginha
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As Pope Francis comes more and more out of the Progressive Closet he begins to gain more and more pushback from the Rightwing who have long claimed that their Unrepentant Greed was Godly.

Unfortunately it isn't, and the Pope has been most clear on this.

"As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world's problems or, for that matter, to any problems," the pope said in the 224-page document that essentially serves as his official platform.

And the response has been truly amazing.  For example Palin's overreaction to the Pope's statements on Twitter actually made her do something she seems to never done before.  (Except for one other time to John McCain for possibly, maybe, making him LOSE!)

Apologize.

She didn't apologize for TrooperGate.  She didn't apologize for "Refudiate".  She didn't apologize for quitting in the middle of her Term as Governor of Alaska.  She didn't apologize for defending Dr. Laura's N-Word use with "Don't Retreat, Relaod! She didn't apologize for her BLOOD LIBEL accusations.

But she apologized to the Pope.  I think something unique and different is going on here.