[NYTr] Why Christian Conservatives Are Threatening to Abandon the GOP

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Alternet - Oct 5, 2007
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Why Christian Conservatives Are Threatening to Abandon the GOP

By Will Durst

Earlier this week, a clandestine cadre of controlling conservative
Christian captains, (bunch of right wing religious nut jobs is what I'm
getting at) threatened to run from the GOP like ducks from an alligator
the size of a Buick if any infidel they don't anoint is nominated for
president. And yes, specific former New York City mayors were
mentioned. Funny you should ask.

At a meeting in Salt Lake City, (where else -- you thought Vegas
maybe?) Heaven's Soldiers, collectively decided they would rather
support a burned-beyond-recognition, duck-billed platypus with wire
coat-hanger hands than a certain Mr. Rudolph Giuliani. Apparently the
mayor of 9/11 is not the answer to their prayers.

Oh, they have their reasons. Mr Giuliani's serial inclination to appear
at fundraisers in drag, resulting in his being photographed wearing a
dress more often than Hillary Clinton, could be one. His brazen
courting of the pro choice, pro gay rights, pro gun control wing of the
Republican Party might be another. The fact that the Rudy clan,
including both ex wives, (two too many) are campaigning for other
people, doesn't help much either. A bit of a sticky wicket that: trying
to swing Independents with your Family Value bonafides, when your own
family hates you. With megaphones.

The zealot heads went so far as to talk out loud about forming their
very own party if Giuliani does weasel his way to the top of the
ticket. And since white Protestant Evangelicals make up a third of the
electorate in the early primary states of Iowa and South Carolina, they
believe the threat of mass defection is too big of a bluff for the GOP
leadership to call. Because, as we all know, a Republican Party without
Christian conservatives is like a snake handler with no snake. A
scorpion minus the stinger. Hell without dental surgery.

You might think this is one of those cut off your nose to spite your
face kind of deals, because, well, it is. But evangelicals are sick and
tired of being taken for granted, and count on party bigwigs to
remember how Ross Perot threw the 92 & 96 elections to Bill Clinton.
Which in those kinds of Kool-Aid circle jerks is like handing the keys
of your children's soul to Satan for a bucket of deep fried Twinkies.
But let's leave Bush's fiscal policy out of this.

Not only are some dogmatic noses severely out of joint from having the
door of implemented policy change slammed in their apostolistic faces,
but they also have a few canonistic bones to pick with some of their
recent higher profile disciples like Mark Foley, David Vitter, Larry
Craig and the Creator's own personal mouthpiece, Ted Haggard. Guys
whose newsreels feature more extra curricular sexual footage than you'd
run into at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch during an after hours party for
the Adult Video Awards.

Of course, if they do form a third party, the big question is what to
call it? "The Holier Than Thou Party," is a bit put offish. "God's Only
Party" would be confusing, especially if the media tried to acronym it.
"The Everyone Has to Live Like We Think They Should Live Party" is
probably too long. I did come up with the perfect name, but
unfortunately, "The Taliban," is already taken.

[Will Durst is a political comic, syndicated columnist, AM radio talk
show host and defense liability. ]

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