Salazar Backs Off "Antichrist" Comment

The Associated Press is reporting that:

Colorado Democratic Sen. Ken Salazar, [a pro-abortion "Catholic"] locked in a bitter tussle with a conservative Christian group over President Bush's judicial nominees, referred to the group as "the Antichrist." He backed off Wednesday, saying he regretted using the term.

Salazar attacked Focus on the Family during an interview Tuesday with KKTV in Colorado Springs, saying, "From my point of view, they are the Antichrist of the world."

In a statement Wednesday, Salazar said he has been relentlessly and unfairly attacked by the group and that "I meant to say this approach was un-Christian, meaning self-serving and selfish."

Focus on the Family's political arm has targeted Salazar and other Democratic senators in newspaper and radio ads for opposing a Republican plan to prevent Democrats from filibustering to block votes on Bush's court nominees.

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[Salazar, after having campaigned on a promise to bring judicial nominees to the floor for an up-or-down vote] has acknowledged changing his position on allowing votes on judicial nominations because of the proposed changes to filibuster rules. He said he is fighting to uphold long-standing laws and rules and that they should not be changed simply for political gain [although Salazar sees no problem with changing his position simply for political gain, especially when currying favor with the pro-abortion lobby]. (emphasis and editorial commentary added)

My Comments:
"... the Antichrist of the world." Again with the inappropriate use of religious imagery by the Democrats in reference to the filibuster of judicial nominees. First Al Gore labels the so-called "nuclear option" for ending the filibusters as "heresy". And now, Ken Salazar has referred to Focus on the Family and other evangelical groups as "the Antichrist of the world".

Guys, when your pollsters are telling you to lace your appeals to "values voters" with religious talk, I don't think labeling your opponents as heretics and the Antichrist is quite what they have in mind.