Mad Social Scientist

I keep tabs on the Houston Chronicle, sole major paper in the town where I grew up. The letters to the editor are often doozies of specious reasoning, hilarious ignorance, or Biblical fundamentalist intolerance. But I saw one today that looks like it descended from an alien political culture. Here's a quote from a letter praising Bush's victory:

I feel safe and have no hesitation to put up my son for this war. If I lose him, I shall be more than dead. If he dies, I die, too. But that is what I am willing to place on the altar of freedom. Thanks be to God.

What century are these people from? If the Republican coalition really thinks like this, we're in trouble.