Evangelical Christians are threatening to run their own third-party candidate if Rudy Giuliani becomes the Republican nominee:
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.?
I think it’s hilarious and hope they get so fed up with the GOP that they do run their own candidate. There’s just one question though.
Is there a nutball out there that isn’t on the Republican ticket yet?
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"People who advocate freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are people who want crops without plowing the ground. They want rain without the awful roar of the thunder and lightning.
Without struggle, there is no progress. This struggle might be a moral one. It might be a physical one. It might be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle.
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. People may not get all that they pay for in this world, but they certainly pay for all that they get." ~ Frederick Douglas
James Dobson for president! Oh hell, I probably shouldn’t put ideas in their heads.
I have been hoping for this for a long time. I have always found the alliance between christianists and big business to be an odd one. After all, big business wants a tiny government that just removes obstacles to wealth for a few. Christianists want a strong federal government which will enforce bible-based theocracy in public and in private. Leaving aside the historic contradiction between the philosophy of ‘christ’ as expressed through the surviving gospels and the modern money, money, money, gimme more money, of today’s society, just the views on what government is for should be enough to disable thes alliance. I hope. Please. Pretty please with sugar on top?
(By the way, I am agnostic, leaning towards athiesm, and I am (re: comment policy) rarely a religious apologist but only if it is germaine to my comment)