The sad part is that Joplin is in a conservative, mostly Republican, bible-belt area, and most of the people there would probably otherwise support him. Just goes to show how Republicans don't even care about their own, it's all about politics, politics, politics. If the Democrats had done anything like this, Fox News and Rush Limbaugh would be all over it talking about how evil & mean-spirited the Democrats are.
Christian apologetics is the art of rolling a dog turd in sugar and selling it as a donut.