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God and Country by Dan Gilgoff

Race for Republican National Committee Chairman Will Determine Christian Right's Influence

January 05, 2009 12:58 PM ET | Dan Gilgoff | Permanent Link | Print

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Race for RNC Chair

After a quarter of a century as a Republican, I was driven from the party in 2000 by the religious right. I worked for the old John McCain that year until religious fundamentalist began to attack his honor and his family with lies; a truly Christian thing to do. I knew then that the Republican Party had lost its soul.

I was saddened by the hollow shell of a compromised man John McCain had become this year. The religious right is like a cancer that eats away at the party. It is time to remember that our Consitution mandates a separation of church and state for two good reasons. First, when government is involved in religion, we all lose our religous liberty. Second, when religion is involved in government, we govern by dogma rather than reason.

The Republican Party has become the party that rejects science, abuses gays and women, wages war as a crusade, coddles bad business because it is business, and divides this nation on religious and racist grounds. The Republican Party ideals have driven this nation to the brink of collapse. The RNC needs leadership like Teddy Roosevelt, not James Dobson.

Race for the RNC Chair

I would like to se a true Conservation like Ken Blackwell run our party. The problem we conservatives have right now is everyone wants to move to the middle. President George W. Bush tried too much to appease the moderate in our party. It doesn't work and never will. The conservatives spent money like it was going out of style and the President did nothing to rein them in. The war I approve of, however we never declared war and that is why the President took a beating. I am fed up with the policitians putting themselves first so they can get reelected. In the Presidential race we put forward John McCain who, in my opinion is a Democrat and he cried when we did not vote for him and he denagrated Sarah Palin for his loss......Nonsense!!! I will not give another cent to the RNC or a Republican Candidate unless they prove they are a conservative. The Republicans put Barach Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid in there and now they can live with it.For all the people who believe President George W. Bush is responsible for the economical crisis I say "think again." It is the Federal Reserve and Congress who have not done their job. Oh! and by the way. It has been a Democratic Congress for two years. We had good financial times when the Congress was Republican, for which, President Bill Clinton takes the kudos. June M. Fullerton, Bakersfield, CA

Race for RNC Chair

After what these conservative, right wing religious extremists did for our country through their support of Bush they should be tarred and feathered. When will they ever be run out of politics?

It is time to tax their political programs and activities!

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Dan Gilgoff covers religion for U.S. News & World Report. He is the author of The Jesus Machine: How James Dobson, Focus on the Family, and Evangelical America are Winning the Culture War, and is a former politics editor at beliefnet. E-mail Dan at godandcountry@usnews.com.

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