Tea Partier Beseeches God's Help -- Against Establishment Republicans

Click here for an article at Salon by Elias Isquith entitled "Tea Party leader asks God to 'be violent against' GOP establishment in opening prayer." Mississippi Tea Party chairman Roy Nicholson delivered an opening prayer at a rally in Flowood, Mississippi, in which he asked Almighty God to "be violent against” establishment Republicans:

We ask for your blessing upon the conservatives in this state, that they might stand strong and firm. Father, we even ask for you to bless our enemies, and Lord they are truly our enemies that head the Republican Party and the whole political establishment.

We’re asking, Father, for two things. We’re asking, Father, that you would expose them, set division amongst them, set them one against another, bring confusion and fear into their camp, into their thinking, for the purpose of pulling them down, for casting them down out of their high offices and reducing them, Lord, to having no power in this state. So, Lord, that you might raise up and seek the righteous in the positions of power that this state might once more be a state that honors you in all that it does.

Father, we’re asking that in all of the tribulations were asking you to bring upon them, that it would work change in their heart — that you would use it to bring true Godly sorrow, that they might truly repent for their iniquity and their wickedness, for that they would be restored to you, that you would have honor in the state of Mississippi for the great works that you’ve done in correcting and purifying the government and rescuing and saving the worst of us.

That's his appeal for the Almighty's help in dealing with establishment Republicans -- how would he word an address referring to progressive Democrats, I wonder?

Anyway: "... expose them, set division amongst them, set them one against another, bring confusion and fear into their camp, into their thinking, for the purpose of pulling them down, for casting them down out of their high offices and reducing them, Lord, to having no power in this state." Thy will be done.