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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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20 Oct 2007 12:13:28 PM |
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Religious Reich fires salvos at phony Ghouliani. |
From The Texas Oberver, 10/20/07:
http://www.texasobserver.org/blog/?p=650
Rick & Rudy Show Not Winning Converts
by Cody Garrett
Immediately after his announcement that he was endorsing Rudy Giuliani
for president, criticism started pouring in from traditional
Republican stalwarts that one normally sees lined up alongside Gov.
Rick Perry.
From Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson to Operation Rescue’s Randall
Terry, the GOP’s cultural conservatives and several of his erstwhile
allies excoriated the governor.
Warren Mass over at the John Birch Society took issue with Perry’s
sincerity and motives, picking up on the analogy Perry used to explain
how he could possibly endorse a pro-gun-control, pro-choice,
pro-civil-union candidate like Giuliani.
Perry reportedly said he wouldn’t refuse to buy a pickup truck just
because it had a part or two he didn’t like.
Mass exclaimed:
Lacking respect for the dignity of human life isn’t the same thing as
missing chrome wheels, it’s more like missing an engine!
(Mass can’t seem to understand why Perry didn’t support fellow Texan
Ron Paul.)
Patterson asked Harvey Kronberg’s Quorum Report, “What happened to
conservative principles as the first measure of who to support for any
office?”
He continued: Is this the same governor who upstaged Arnold in
(California) with a message that Republicans need to return to their
conservative roots if they expect to win elections?
I guess the red meat he was serving in (California) was ‘rare’ as
opposed to ‘well done.’
The wild-eyed anti-abortion activist Randall Terry, not known for his
subtlety, delivered perhaps the most scalding attack, comparing Perry
to Judas Iscariot:
So-called ‘pro-life Republicans’ that are endorsing Rudy—like TX
Governor Rick Perry, or NY (sic) Representative Pete Sessions, are
typical treacherous politicians.
They have betrayed innocent blood to support a child-killer;
we can only wonder what 30 pieces of silver they are seeking.
We noticed when Giuiliani brought Sessions out a few weeks ago.
Now Sessions and Perry are being lumped together.
Curiously, however, Terry really gets to the point at the end of his
diatribe.
He says a Hillary Clinton victory in 2008 would be far better for the
pro-life movement than Giuliani.
An enemy outside your camp makes you vigilant; an enemy in your tent
makes you dead.
Hillary would unite us, and she could be defeated in 4 years; Giuliani
would destroy the cohesion of the right wing.
There’s something vaguely Freudian about the right’s obsession with
Hillary.
They keep saying they have to move heaven and earth to stop her, but
deep down, they really, really need her.
I know, it sounds like bad psychoanalysis—but I’ll just let Randall
Terry have the last word:
As horrifying as it seems at first blush, Hillary Clinton would
probably be a better president for the Pro-Life movement (and the
innocent children we seek to protect) than Rudy Giuliani.
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Whatever
Harry
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