Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Right Wing 3rd Party, Please!

I was surfing the web today when I cam across an article stating that many Christian conservatives are seriously considering forming a third party.
Christian conservatives want more respect. They were instrumental in propelling George W. Bush to power—twice—and now they're feeling neglected.
Are you kidding me you don't feel respected, your run everything in the country right now. (Well except Congress but lucky for you they have no spines).I would love to see a Right Wing 3rd Party
The reason they are thinking of forming this 3rd party is due to the fact that pro-choice, pro-gun control, pro-gay rights, and three times married Rudy Giuliani is the frontrunner for the GOP nomination right now. At a Values voter summit last week Rudy came in 8th among the participants. Now a lot of people think this is just a bluff but according to Richard Land who serves as president of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission its is no bluff.
My intuition [is that] this is not a bluff. If Giuliani is the nominee there will be a third party. There are things that Giuliani could do to help mitigate the damage. But I have been in too many discussions over the last 15 years where evangelical leaders have said, "The one thing we will never allow to happen is for the Republican Party to take us for granted the way the Democratic Party too often takes the African-American community for granted." This is not a bluff.
Later on we see just how far right wing he really is
No, he's not going to do that, and if he did nobody would believe it. He would [have to] say, number one, "This is a pro-life party. I realize I am out of step with where the party is, and I am not going to try to in any way weaken the [pro-life] plank." He could say, "I will only appoint strict constructionists, original-intent jurists to the federal judiciary." Strict constructionists by definition think that Roe v. Wade was an overreach and is a badly decided decision. If he were to agree to appoint a pro-life attorney general in the mode of a John Ashcroft.

I think the Democrats will win in 2008 regardless of a Right wing 3rd party or not but it would be nice for there to be one because that will almost guarantee a Democratic Victory. I don't get how these people don't see they are handing the Democrats a key to victory, but oh well that’s not our problem.

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