Religious Right Joins In GOP Civil War

[Hissyspit]

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/11/religious-right-joins-in-gop-civil-war.html

Religious right joins in GOP civil war
by John in DC - 11/09/2006 08:37:00 PM

Spin, spin, spin baby. The fact remains that independents left the Republican party in droves. And that's not because the GOP didn't spend enough time embracing Lou Sheldon, James Dobson, and the men at the Concerned Women for America.

More from religious right leader Lou Sheldon:

...the candidates who didn't see the importance of marriage and family in 2006--like Lincoln Chafee (R-RI), Nancy Johnson (R-CT), Jim Leach (R-IA), Jeb Bradley (R-NH), and Charlie Bass (R-NH)--are all out of a job.

Yeah, and Rick Santorum, George Allen, Katherine Harris, JD Hayworth, Blackwell in Ohio, Steele in Maryland and all the rest of the social conservatives just sailed to victory. Oh, not they didn't. They lost. And religious right candidate Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado nearly lost to Angie Paccione, a Democrat who openly supported gay marriage - yet her embrace of civil rights for glbt Americans didn't even scratch Paccione, in Colorado of all places. And in Virginia and Wisconsin, the anti-gay amendments actually HELPED GOP officials LOSE their elections.

So keep spinning, Lou. Because nothing would make me happier than for the GOP to embrace the religious right wingnuts even more tightly than they have to date. Go ahead and make yourselves a permanent minority. You'll have half the south, and that's it.

[muntrv]

1. Just like Missouri voted against stem cell research and South Dakota

voted for the abortion ban and.....oops wrong again.

[Maven]

2. They were so smug about their "strategy." Watching them wring their hands about

"what went wrong" is just too good.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. The fantasy is that they represent "the Real America".

The reality is, there are maybe twelve of these addled pinheaded creationist knuckledraggers, tops.

[williesgirl]

4. Stay in church and OUT of politics! recommended