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Time for an overdue CNP update:
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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/politic...9whisplead.htm
Washington Whispers
By Paul Bedard
Posted Sunday, February 11, 2007
....Evangelical Vote: Down to Two
The race to win the Christian-right vote has already narrowed to a battle between former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, say activists. And for many at this month's closed-door summit of the Council for National Policy-a top-secret club of marquee conservative advocates-Huckabee was the 60-40 fave, say attendees. This crowd counts: Members include Focus on the Family founder James Dobson and Left Behind author Tim LaHaye. Huckabee, a Baptist minister, wowed the confab, even though it's Romney who has won over evangelical leaders. What's more, activists say "in-the-pew evangelicals" will most likely gravitate toward Huckabee, who is strong on marriage and antiabortion issues.....
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as I supported here....
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...tpost&t=113609
there were reports of a CNP "board of governor's meeting" on Amelia Island on Feb. 2, and the threat of "Islamo Fascism", and "what to do about it", was covered, along with an appearance by republican presidential candidate, Duncan Hunter, also implicated in DOD defense procurement investigations that began in 2005 when Randy Cunningham sold his home for an inflated price...to defense contractor, Mitchell Wade.
I think that it is sad that Duncan Hunter, a republican congressman from southern California, chose to announce his run for the POTUS in South Carolina....calculating that the state where CNP founder, LeHaye (co-founded by Paul Weyrich), graduated from racist, homophobic, catholic bashing, Bob Jones University of Greenville, SC, and began his ministry, was the place to strengthen the chances of his "must have" CNP endorsement, if he was to be successful in his quest for the republican nomination in 2008.....
It strikes me that a successful republican presidential candidacy has been, and continues to be a sad dance before a powerful fringe group that divides the successful candidate from the mainstream...from the developments that have healed and unifies America for the last 60 years....and they all do this dance....:
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http://graphics.boston.com/news/poli...orge_W_+.shtml
.......History shows that the real Reagan was the one who spoke at the Neshoba County Fair and not the one at the Urban League. His presidency quickly became the most antipoor, antiblack, and antidisadvantaged in the latter half of the 20th century.
Now, 20 years later, here comes George W. Bush. Stung by his defeat in the New Hampshire primary, Bush needed a trump card in the South Carolina Republican primary. This was a problem, since he and John McCain are running neck-and-redneck on issues dear to racists. Both have chickened out on saying it is time to stop flying the Confederate flag over the state capitol.
Bush may have found his ace. He kicked off his homestretch drive in South Carolina by speaking at Bob Jones University. Bob Jones represents one of Reagan's early signs of being antiblack. Reagan fought to revoke the Internal Revenue Service's authority to deny charitable tax exemptions to the school. The denial was over the school's ban on interracial dating.
The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 decision, rebuked Reagan, saying schools that practice racial segregation can indeed be denied tax exemptions. Reagan would later appoint the lone dissenter, William Rehnquist, to chief justice.
Bob Jones University still bans interracial dating. George W.'s brother Jeb, the Florida governor who is married to a Latina, could not have graduated. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, who has a white wife and who was appointed by George W.'s father, could not have graduated.
Bob Jones also practices homophobia. Two years ago, when a gay, 60-year-old alum asked if he could come back to visit the school, the dean of students wrote back, ''With grief we must tell you that as long as you are living as a homosexual, you, of course, would not be welcome on the campus and would be arrested for trespassing if you did. We take no delight in that action. Our greatest delight would be in your return to the Lord.''
George W. took delight in validating this perverted version of Christianity, telling 6,000 students, almost all white, ''I look forward to publicly defending our conservative philosophy.'' He said he would seek ''compassionate results.'' But compassion could not have been foremost on Bush's mind, since it was only after the speech that he criticized the school's racial policies, not during it and not directly to the students.
His compassion is irrelevant when out of all the colleges in South Carolina, he chose the most racist and homophobic, a venue more discriminatory on paper than even the Neshoba County Fair. Speaking of papers, Bush's appearance was so outrageous newspaper and television reporters should hound him as to how he deserves the White House when he panders to such base thinking.
While many editorials have dutifully questioned the appearance, subsequent news coverage has made little mention of Bob Jones and certainly not enough to suggest this was a deep, permanent stain. Like Reagan and the Urban League, Bush is smart enough to sprinkle just enough pepper in his white sauce, such as photo-ops with black children, to keep the hounds at bay..........
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...anybody know why Huckabee, besides being a baptist minister turned republican pol, would seem exceptional to the CNP?
....and <b>dc_dux</b>, can you share anything about this woman?:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...tro/obituaries
http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/13716.html
A Tribute To The “101st Senator”
April 08, 2006 09:44 AM EST
I have written previously about the importance of Mrs. Miles (Margo) D.B. Carlisle, who, almost invisibly, managed to be one of the most important conservatives of our time. Senators called her the 101st Senator.
They were correct. First as Executive Director of the Senate Steering Committee (the caucus of conservatives), later as Director of the Senate GOP Conference, Executive Director of the Council for National Policy, Vice President of the Heritage Foundation, and an Assistant Secretary of Defense under Caspar N. Weinberger, she was consulted more and more about the Senate Rules and later on policies of cosmic importance.....
....Go in peace, Margo. We know God loves you. And so do those of us who have had the privilege of knowing you. May you rest in a place where there is no grief, no pain, no sighing. Just Everlasting Life. Memory Eternal!
<b>Paul M. Weyrich</b> is Chairman and CEO of the Free Congress Foundation.
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http://forums.macleans.ca/advansis/?...so=1&ps=0&sb=1
Posted by Maude Barlow at 15:55:35 January 24, 2006
January 21, 2006
Harper and the US Extreme Right
Today in the Globe and Mail, a number of organizations, including my own, published an entire speech that Stephen Harper delivered in 1997 when he was head of the right-wing lobby group, the National Citizens Coalition. We want Canadians to see for themselves exactly what Harper thinks of this country. It is worth reading in full on the eve of an election that might bring him and his party to power.
More disturbing than the views he expresses in this speech, however, is the organization to whom he delivered it and the fact that he would ever have allowed himself to be affiliated with it in any way. It is called the Council for National Policy and is a powerful and secretive collection of far-right American Christian and social conservatives who formed the backbone of the Bush victory. The CNP was founded in 1981 by Tim LeHaye, author of the best-selling "Left Behind" books that describe the "Rapture" (the literal end of time when true believers will be taken up to heaven and the rest of the world will perish in horrible ways), Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation, a far-right pro-family/anti-gay/anti abortion lobby that claims on its web-site America is becoming a third world country because of its "long slide into the cultural and moral decay of political correctness," and businessmen Joseph Coors and Herbert and Nelson Bunker Hunt, rabid anti-communists who were affiliated with the John Birch Society.
The Council for National Policy initiated the Moral Majority Coalition and recruited Jerry Falwell to run it and later welcomed James Dobson, head of the far-right evangelical movement, Focus on the Family. Dobson has said that homosexuality will destroy the earth and is the prime architect of the ban on gay marriage in eleven states. The New York Times says the CNP is made up of the most powerful conservatives in the United States who "meet behind closed doors at undisclosed locations to strategize about how to turn the country to the right." Recently, the group has hosted powerful right-wing foreign policy hawks such as Vice President Cheney,
Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and UN ambassador John Bolton, a hard-right ideologue who displays a mock grenade on his desk with the label "To John Bolton, World's Greatest Reaganite."
What was Stephen Harper doing by his association with these people? What does it say about his long-term agenda for this country? One thing is certain: the US right can hardly wait for a Harper win. Paul Weyrich of the Free Congress Foundation has e-mailed all his far-right friends in the US cautioning them to hold off any public gloating over a possible Harper win until after the vote Monday, "at which point hopefully there will be reason to celebrate." You can bet American social conservatives can hardly wait to see their White House counterpart ensconced at Sussex Drive. Patrick Basham of the right-wing American think-tank, the Cato Institute, says that a Harper win will "put a smile" on George Bush's face......
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics...rend_doomsday/
Reverend Doomsday
According to Tim LaHaye, the Apocalypse is now
Robert Dreyfuss
It might seem unlikely that the commander in chief would take his marching orders directly from on high -- unless you understand the views of the Rev. Timothy LaHaye, one of the most influential leaders of the Christian right, and a man who played a quiet but pivotal role in putting George W. Bush in the White House............
..........Of course, there have always been preachers on the margins of the religious right thundering on about the end of the world. But it's doubtful that such a fanatic believer has ever had such a direct pipeline to the White House. Five years ago, as Bush was gearing up his presidential campaign, he made a little-noticed pilgrimage to a gathering of right-wing Christian activists, under the auspices of a group called the Committee to Restore American Values. The committee, which assembled about two dozen of the nation's leading fundamentalist firebrands, was chaired by LaHaye. At the time, many evangelicals viewed Bush skeptically: Despite his born-again views, when he was governor of Texas, Bush had alienated many of the state's Christian-right activists for failing to pursue a sufficiently evangelical agenda. On the national level, he was an unknown quantity.
That day, behind closed doors, LaHaye grilled the candidate. He presented Bush with a lengthy questionnaire on issues such as abortion, judicial appointments, education, religious freedom, gun control and the Middle East. What the preacher thought of Bush's answers would largely determine whether the Christian right would throw its muscle behind the Texas governor.....
...........In 1979, at a time when ministers confined themselves to their churches, he prodded the Rev. Jerry Falwell to found the Moral Majority, a group that launched today's cultural wars against feminism, homosexuality, abortion, drugs and pornography. In 1981, he helped found the little-known but vastly powerful Council for National Policy, a secretive group of wealthy donors that has funneled billions of dollars to right-wing Christian activists. "No one individual has played a more central organizing role in the religious right than Tim LaHaye," says Larry Eskridge of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals, calling him "the most influential American evangelical of the last twenty-five years."
When the meeting with Bush ended, LaHaye gave the candidate his seal of approval. For Bush, it was a major breakthrough, clearing the decks for hundreds of leaders of the Christian right, from TV preachers and talk-show hosts to Bible Belt pulpit pounders, to support the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2000. <b>"Bush went into the meeting not totally acceptable," recalls Paul Weyrich, the grandfather of the religious right, who has known LaHaye for thirty years. "He went out not only acceptable but enthusiastically supported."</b>
More than half a century ago, as a student at Bob Jones University, Timothy LaHaye began his public ministry as a pastor at a small church in a tiny town in South Carolina, not far from the campus.....
.....By the mid-1980s, LaHaye was at the top of his game, powerful and well- connected, plugged into the Reagan administration and, through yet another of his groups, the American Coalition for Traditional Values, a pivotal factor in the 1984 election, registering Christian conservative voters through "pastor-representatives" in all 435 congressional districts. But he was also headed for a fall.
Lahaye's free-fall began in the mid-1980s, and by the end he'd almost been expelled from the political Garden of Eden. <b>What set it into motion was his connection with the weird would-be messiah Rev. Sun Myung Moon, whose Unification Church cult of "Moonies" was viewed by most Christians as laughably heretical. When Moon got entangled in legal controversy, LaHaye sprang to his defense, amid reports that he'd received substantial funding from the wealthy Moon. By the time LaHaye backed away, it was too late.</b> His credibility was shot, and the American Coalition for Traditional Values soon folded.......
.......The success of Left Behind gave LaHaye an enormous boost, returning him to prominence and making him truly born again. <b>"At meetings of the Council for National Policy now, Tim and Bev are treated like rock stars," says Grover Norquist, perhaps Washington's leading conservative activist.</b> Last fall, LaHaye released the first book of a new series called Babylon Rising, which takes his apocalyptic notions even further. Striking while the brimstone is hot, LaHaye has already received a reported $42 million advance deal from Bantam Books for the Babylon books, built around a swashbuckling, Indiana Jones-style biblical archeologist in the Holy Land........
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<b>Bottomline...</b> I don't want "my president", connected or beholden to any of these (not going to supply the adjectives....)"powerbrokers" ..... WTF?
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