Family Research Council president and noted white supremacist gadfly Tony Perkins delivered an ultimatum to the National Republican Campaign Committee yesterday, threatening to end financial support for that organization unless its chairman, Rep. Tom Cole (R-OK), reverses course on a recent move that stripped two embattled Republican congressmen of continued advertising spending. Both of the representatives in question are seen as facing losing battles in an election cycle that sees the GOP drawing on relatively scant financial resources; nonetheless, Perkins is demanding that the NRCC continue to blow money on two causes it deems hopeless because the two doomed reps “vote pro-life and pro-family.” Additionally, says Perkins, these are “winnable districts;” the only problem, it seems, is that nobody seems to know this except for Perkins himself.

Indeed, the FRC’s wacky president is a wellspring of unique electoral commentary. In the weeks before the 2006 election, he mocked those who claimed that the GOP was about to suffer a major loss; after those people were proven right, Perkins attributed the Democratic victory to that party’s alleged support for “social values,” an attribute that Perkins had never gotten around to attributing to Democratic politicians before this point. A few days later, Perkins apparently changed his mind, suddenly citing as a major factor in the Democratic landslide “wealthy homosexual activists, who pumped millions into contests on both the state and federal levels.” Incidentally, the Democrats were outspent overall in that particular election; perhaps money from homosexual activists simply works better. So, if you happen to be gay, please consider contributing some money to Enlighten the Vote.

The moral of the story, to the extent that any anecdote regarding Tony Perkins can be said to contain a shred of morality, is that Tony Perkins has no idea what he’s talking about.