Oh boy, is this gonna be GREAT!

The fundies are coming! The fundies are coming!!

Right here in America's Glans™ on September 17! Better still, to the home of batshit crazy fundie mayor Jim Naugle!

A cornucopia of well-known wingers and bible beaters will be gathered in Fort Lauderdale ... to hold a “Values Voter Presidential Debate,” moderated by WingNutDaily’s Joseph Farah.

The is the forum that the Base has been looking forward to because it will be the one debate where candidates will surely get pinned down by the luminaries of the fringe-right movement on the party’s hypocrisy and waffling on social issues.

It's gonna be a cornucopia of schadenfreude as the candidates try to respond to questions from this band of wackos:

* Paul Weyrich, founder and president of the Free Congress Foundation
* Phyllis Schlafly, founder and president of Eagle Forum
* Don Wildmon of the American Family Association
* Judge Roy Moore, columnist at WND and head of the Foundation for Moral Law
* Rick Scarborough of Vision America
* Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel.

The usual suspects have RSVP'd yes, but they haven't heard back yet from front-runners Rudy and Mitt, nor from Saint John McCain or putative candidate Fred Thompson.

Of course, Rudy and the other candidates except for McCain already said they had scheduling conflicts with the September 16 Spanish-language debate in Miami. How curious that they can show up (well, some of them, so far) for the fundies in Fort Lauderdale but not one day earlier for Univisión in Miami ...

As Pam over at Pandagon notes, "which is worse for these guys — appearing and choking on their hypocrisy, or not showing up, thumbing their noses at the Base?"

For my part, I can't decide whether to watch the debate or protest outside ... decisions, decisions ...