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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 01:44 PM
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If Fundies Want To Appoint Fundie Judges Then THEY Should Run For Congress
Edited on Mon Oct-10-05 01:44 PM by cryingshame
-basically what Alan Alda's paleocon character said last night on West Wing. And it's a damn good point and political phrase.

Rather than try and coerce GOP candidates to pander to their extreme twisted version of Christian ideology, let the Fundies go ahead and get themselves elected.

Let DOBSON or his damn flying monkeys run for office AS Fundies. Run on their damn platforms.

They'd go down in flames.

These Fundies desperately want External Validation in the SCOTUS pick. And they want to be Legitimized.

They are sick of being spoken to in 'Code' (Dred Scot). They want the GOP elected pols to stop meeting them in cheap hotels for one night stands just before every election.

They want a fucking RING, dammit.
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castiron Donating Member (376 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 01:45 PM
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1. a ring and a date
the corporatist Repubs know that Fundie Republicanism only has limited clout, and the fundies know they know. That's why they ARE trying to get elected in the small stuff now.... school boards, etc.
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 02:00 PM
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2. I thought that was a remarkable and true point he made. Great
moment there when he said that "they are what's wrong with this party, not me." I also loved his "I lied to a liar" comment speaking about the religious character.
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Shadder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 02:30 PM
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3. So far this season
It really seems like Sorkin is back scripting the show, it's been that good.
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 02:51 PM
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4. Who is Sorkin and what is backscripting? nm
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 03:06 PM
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5. Sorkin is the fellow who created the original show. He left when the produ
producers forced more GOP representation, IIRC.
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 03:17 PM
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6. Oh, thanks for that. n/t
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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 05:33 PM
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7. Art (West Wing) imitating life- Dobson may testify on Miers
Dobson may be called to testify on Miers (What Rove told this whack job?)


Edited on Mon Oct-10-05 12:13 PM by NNN0LHI

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/stories/1005/10dob...

WASHINGTON — Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., who is chairman of the Judiciary Committee, and several Democrats on the committee said Sunday that they were considering calling James C. Dobson to testify on what he has been told about Harriet E. Miers, the president's Supreme Court nominee.

"If Dr. Dobson knows something that he shouldn't know or something that I ought to know, I'm going to find out," Specter said Sunday in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on the ABC program "This Week."

In response to a later question, Specter added, "If there are back-room assurances and if there are back-room deals and if there is something which bears upon a precondition as to how a nominee is going to vote, I think that's a matter that ought to be known by the Judiciary Committee and the American people."

Dobson, the influential founder of the conservative evangelical group Focus on the Family, has said he is supporting Miers' nomination in part because of something he has been told but cannot divulge. He has not disclosed the source of the information, but he has acknowledged speaking with Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, about the president's pick before it was announced.

On his radio program last Tuesday, Dobson said, "When you know some of the things that I know — that I probably shouldn't know — you will understand why I have said, with fear and trepidation, that I believe Harriet Miers will be a good justice." He added, in a reference to aborted fetuses, "if I have made a mistake here, I will never forget the blood of those babies that will die will be on my hands to some degree."
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Emit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 05:48 PM
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8. They are running, and have been for some time...
See: "The Rise of the Religious Right in the Republican Party"


http://mcgreivy.tripod.com/index.htm
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texpatriot2004 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-10-05 07:55 PM
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9. Rise of the "Religious Right" in the Repub. Party...see it has been
hijacked.
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