More signs that Christian extremists are awakening to the fact that their nearly 30-year marriage to the mainstream Republican Party has been a sham from the start:
According to anonymous sources present at a clandestine breakaway session held alongside the secret thrice-annual meeting of the extreme rightwing Council for National Policy, a handful of America’s top Christian nationalists signed onto a resolution that threatens to leave the GOP and run their own candidate if Republicans select Rudolph Giuliani as their party’s nominee next year.
Among those at the double-secret meeting were heads of two wealthiest organizations in the homophobia industry, James Dobson of Focus on the Family — with total revenues in 2006 of $142,279,843 — and Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council, which had revenue in 2006 of $10,858,374. Also in attendance was Richard Viguerie, the conservative guru of direct-mail marketing, a cutting-edge political communications tool of the 1980s.
The breakaway session resulted in a written resolution stating that “if the Republican Party nominates a pro-abortion candidate we will consider running a third party candidate.”
According to Sourcewatch, the CNP is a “secretive forum that was formed in 1981 by Tim LaHaye” — a one-time John Birch Society member who is the multi-millionaire author of the theocratic fantasy “Left Behind” book series. Sourcewatch says CNP is “a networking tool for leading US conservative political leaders.” Mark Crispin Miller, author of “The Bush Dyslexicon,” is also cited, describing the CNP as a “highly secretive … theocratic organization — what they want is basically religious rule.” Another source says the CNP is a meant to counter the Council on Foreign Relations.
Republicans brought Christian nationalists into the fold in the wake of Watergate when it became clear that their rapidly dwindling coalition of country club-types, tax-haters, gun nuts and isolationist-paranoiacs was not large enough to win against Democrats.
For the first two decades, Republican leaders who were not particularly religious, including Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and Newt Gingrich, paid lip service to the theocrats in order to keep them in line. It is ironic, however, that the fissure between the GOP and its religious extremists base has erupted during the presidency of George H. Bush, who claims to be an evangelical Christian.
If Christian nationalists do abandon the Republican Party, the numbers could look a bit grimmer for the GOP next year. Among the 31 percent of voters who describe themselves as Republicans, fewer than one-third say they are evangelicals. If the evangelicals move their support to a third-party candidate, the GOP nominee would be forced to try to court back an additional 10 percent of conservative independent voters, many of whom left the GOP during the Bush term because of the party’s profligate spending and a series of back-to-back scandals that have exposed the party’s corruption and hypocrisy.
Why This Christian Will Never Vote For Giuliani at http://larryperrault.blogspot.com
Giuliani is not the only candidate for the GOP. The Neocons want you to believe that he is the best candidate (for war and the destruction of the world), but there is RON PAUL. He is the only true Conservative Candidate in the GOP. All the other candidates are pro-war and lack family values. In fact they are neocons disguised as conservatives.
VOTE FOR RON PAUL!
If you want your votes to be counted and meaningful, refuse to vote on electronic voting machines that don’t have a paper trail. If you do, you will get screwed and they will give the nomination to RG.