9/30/07

NY Times Blog: Fundamentalist Christians threaten republicans

They meet in secret. They conspire to run their own candidate for president. And this is a classic example of deserting a sinking ship. But everybody knows they will never agree on a candidate.

David Kuo detailed in his book how gullible these guys are, how they were seduced and used by the Bush White House. These guys think with their egos.

Now David D. Kirkpatrick reports in "The Caucus: Political Blogging from the Times:"
September 30, 2007, 2:38 pm
Christian Conservatives Consider Third-Party Effort

By David D. Kirkpatrick

Alarmed at the chance that the Republican party might pick Rudolph Giuliani as its presidential nominee despite his support for abortion rights, a coalition of influential Christian conservatives is threatening to back a third-party candidate in an attempt to stop him.

The group making the threat, which came together Saturday in Salt Lake City during a break-away gathering during a meeting of the secretive Council for National Policy, includes Dr. James Dobson of Focus on the Family, who is perhaps the most influential of the group, as well as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, the direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie and dozens of other politically-oriented conservative Christians, participants said. Almost everyone present expressed support for a written resolution that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.” more...

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