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SFN Die Hard
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 Posted - 10/13/2007 : 02:57:36
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Here's what they're up to.
Seems that all the blather about going third party was just blather. They're going to decide on a Republican whom they think can win, then pour on the bombastic rhetoric and the dollars, and that was probably predictable -- no one lies like a neocon holy man out to grab him some power. Not even Rasputin nor Alexander VI could compete with our modern Evangelicals. 1. Third Parties and the Fourth Estate
Would James Dobson or Tony Perkins have had as many Google News hits this week had the press not fallen for the story that the dynamic duo was ready to dump the GOP in favor of certain failure and irrelevancy? Out of the circus that ensued after the Salt Lake City meeting last week, they got a massive, free get-out-the-vote drive. If Perkins and Dobson can't get their message out through their e-mail lists, radio shows, newsletters, and church networks, they surely can shout their significance from the rooftops of CBS, NBC, ABC, and CNN. Their intended audience was their own constituents and the Republican Party as a whole: Take us seriously, or the White House will once again be occupied by a Clinton.
There's no better way to motivate this crowd than by threatening them with insignificance. But before that narrative veered out of their control and became conventional wisdom, Perkins quickly reined it in with an appearance on Face the Nation Sunday. The widely leaked pact to pursue a third-party candidacy, he said, was "a proclamation of principle" rather than a "declaration of intent."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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