Faith-Based Challenges Show a New Rift in the GOP

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When Ban-Abortionist homophobes say they're "conservative," they mean they work to save their "God-given right" to treat women like breeding animals, to produce tithers, They save their system that raises taxes to support poor unwed moms who refuse to abort because their church says abortion is "a murderous sin." They conserve their policy that murders women who need abortions because they have diseases of bone, heart, kidneys or other organs. They stand between those women and abortion doctors & instead send them to undertakers. They KEEP for their churches the tithes that come from forcing women to replace tithers who die. What do they not conserve or keep? They destroy Constitutional liberty that says US citizens can be child-free and also free from religion. We liberals try to conserve the value of labor, instead of cheapening it by forcing people to have big families. We don't want cheap labor sneaking in here from nations that ban abortion. We don't want cheap labor being produced here by members of Ban-Abortion churches. Genuine fiscal conservatives were driven out of the GOP when Goldwaterites took it over. He was anti-Labor, anti-Union. His Arizona is still notorious as a Cheap Labor state, for "wetbacks" and most workers.

auradawn veirs of CA 6:13PM November 28, 2009

To Focus on the Family male leaders, marriage is a cage. Men trap women and crack the whip over them. Like all males, Prolife men are safe from being crippled or killed by pregnancy. Some of them are so mean to women that it makes me wonder whether they are unaborted conceptions that were adopted by abusive people. Or maybe they were not cast off, poor mom kept them and they suffered with her, being called welfare moochers. When they say "Family" they mean "Christian Family," with no divorce for women who are stuck with men who have chronic premature ejaculation or who are addicts, alcoholics or wife beaters. No male has standing to make laws that can turn motherhood into a death warrant.

auradawn veirs of CA 12:57AM November 28, 2009

Fiscal Restraint
Limited Government
Free Market Solutions
Energy Independence
Strong National Defense
are the principles Cherilyn Eagar is running on.
If someone really is a republican, I don't see why they would disagree with them.
In March of this year Senator Bob Bennett was rated one of the ten most liberal Republicans in the Senate by Human Events based on the American Conservative Union Ratings for 2008. Why Bennett would pay money to convince voters he is Conservative is beyond me.

arc_ut of UT 8:45AM November 22, 2009

I say if anyone who opposes the leadership of Limbaugh, Beck, Hannity, Kyl, McConnell, Ensign and Hatch should not be supported for any office and they should be opposed by all republicans.
We need a pure party with one message. That message is to give all the richest another tax cut. Cut the taxes of all corporations that we call small businesses with assets of more than 10 billion dollars.
We should stop all welfare and let the lazies go work. They can find jobs in the farmers fields picking vegetables if no where else and that also help stop the illegal immigrarion.
Any repbublican who opposes those listed above who are the leaders be thrown out of the party so can present a unified message.

Carl Justus of TX 3:33PM November 21, 2009

If anyone is seriously interested in the collusion of far right politics and religion, I recommend the following books;
Blumenthal, Max
2009 "Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party" (2009 New York: Nation Books).
Dean, John
2006 "Conservatives Without Concience" New York: Viking
Gore, Al
2007 "Assault on Reason"
Hedges, Chris
2008 "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" New York: Free Press.
Phillips, Kevin
2006 "American Theocracy" New York: Viking Press
Mooney, Chris
2005 "The Republican War on Science" New York: Basic Press
Sharlet, Jeff
2008 "The Family: The secret fundamentalism at the heart of American power" New York: Harper Collins

Gary Hurd of CA 2:23PM November 21, 2009

Let me see if I understand--- Tom Minnery of Focus on the Family says that conservative Republicans have a better chance of winning general elections than moderate Republicans do because conservatives would oppose moderate Republicans who are nominated to run in the general election. This sounds like a kid who announces ahead of time that he will take his marbles and run home crying if he doesn't like how the game is turning out.

Tim Warren of CA 8:58AM November 21, 2009

California GOP U.S. Senate candidate Carly Fiorina is pro-life not an abortion rights supporter.

Greg Cole of CA 8:09PM November 20, 2009

Hopefully we are now drifting away from just "Democrat" vs. "Republican" nomenclature. What is taking the ground swell are Conservative Values, be it Blue Dog Democrats or Reagan Conservative Republicans like Cherilyn Eagar in Utah.

Just Cause of UT 6:01PM November 20, 2009