“Jesus was a Community Organizer; Pontius Pilate was a Governor.”

Such was the catchphrase adopted by many supporters of Barack Obama, the former community organizer (who admitted he has no idea what a “community organizer” even does), in their attempt to prove that he was a more appropriate choice for an entirely different position than the more qualified Gov. Sarah Palin, whose selection by John McCain for a completely different job than that which Obama was pursuing apparently scared the bejeezus out of the Democrat and his supporters.

Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN) said it on the House floor, Obama supporters put it on buttons and bumper stickers, and two-bit bloggers claimed Palin’s quips about Obama’s community organizing background were attacks on the Messiah HimselfObamaeric (doubtless the first time they’ve ever seen fit to actually defend Jesus Christ, who has had quite a time of it at the hands of left-wingers for decades now).

Now, with his pick of Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine to head up the Democratic National Committee, the Obamessiah has evidently decided to join forces with an east coast Pontius Pilate who, perhaps, washed his hands of sin by being a Democrat and voting for Obama (it certainly wasn’t accomplished by not running for the same office as the president-elect, as Gov. Palin also ran for a different position).

Somehow I doubt that included in the hue and cry over the Kaine pick will be complaints that an evil Governor like he who allowed Jesus to be sentenced to death was selected to head up the Democratic apparatus.

Of course, the Kaine pick isn’t all that important anyway — in fact, as I and other have argued (particularly via Twitter) lately, the DNC is sliding further into irrelevance, cast under the weighty shadow of the Obamadministration and its state of perpetual campaigning.

Patrick Ruffini sees the Kaine pick as a sign that Obama will file with the FEC for 2012 up to two years early; personally, I don’t see why he’d bother, considering he (and campaign manager David Plouffe) are taking the campaign with them into the White House (and are still emailing me an average of twice a week with requests for money).

Tim Kaine, a Democratic Pontius Pilate to Obama’s Jesus, may be running the DNC, but the DNC isn’t running the Democratic Party any more. From earlier this year into the foreseeable future, “Obama for America” is running the Democratic Party — complete with their list of 10m email addresses, 3m cell phone numbers, contrived “office of the President-Elect,” and faux Presidential seal.

Get ready for irrelevance, DNC. It could last a while.