Project Tocsin-- countering the Right in California

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On a bigger scale, the more radical of the Politico-Christian Right forces were able to take over the GOP party platform <http://bsd.mojones.com/news_wire/cra.html> in California, immediately changing the GOP party platform such that no GOP candidate could support a woman's right to choose what happens to her body. This has had a powerful impact on the California GOP. For instance, it has impacted which candidates the California GOP would allow to use the GOP standard and which candidates it would support financially and otherwise (and which candidates it would actively work against). It has also impacted which California judicial appointments the state GOP would support and back (and which judicial candidates/appointments it would actively work to stop from being placed on the bench). While this one-issue litmus-test party platform may have pleased some of the Politico-Christian Right's followers, it has actually caused GOP moderates to turn away from the GOP in California, as evidenced by the past two presidential elections. Yet the radical Politico-Christian Right continues to call the shots regarding the GOP party platform. (For a definitive, detailed look at the radical Christian influence on California politics--including an illuminating flow chart of links between politicians and radical Christian groups--visit Project Tocsin <http://www.rthoughtsrfree.org/tocsin/tocsin.htm>.)