When it's my time, just let me go quickly

Via Ezra Klein comes this gem from Tom DeLay:

One thing that God has brought to us is Terri Schiavo, to help elevate the visibility of what is going on in America," Mr. DeLay told a conference organized by the Family Research Council, a conservative Christian group. A recording of the event was provided by the advocacy organization Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

"This is exactly the issue that is going on in America, of attacks against the conservative movement, against me and against many others," Mr. DeLay said.

Mr. DeLay complained that "the other side" had figured out how "to defeat the conservative movement," by waging personal attacks, linking with liberal organizations and persuading the national news media to report the story. He charged that "the whole syndicate" was "a huge nationwide concerted effort to destroy everything we believe in."

Wow. It's tough to even know what to say here. How do you respond to a paranoia so profound it's pathological combined with a "culture of life" that so totally erases the one they are purportedly trying to save? Yikes. Terry Schiavo is like DeLay who is like, well, Jesus apparently--because who else gets sent here to save us all from Satan Liberals. In-fucking-credible.

(Thanks to Yelladog for the head's up)