If Fundies Want To Appoint Fundie Judges Then THEY Should Run For Congress

[KittyWampus]

-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.

[castiron]

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.

[texpatriot2004]

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.

[Shadder]

3. So far this season

It really seems like Sorkin is back scripting the show, it's been that good.

[texpatriot2004]

4. Who is Sorkin and what is backscripting? nm

[KittyWampus]

5. Sorkin is the fellow who created the original show. He left when the produ

producers forced more GOP representation, IIRC.

[texpatriot2004]

6. Oh, thanks for that. n/t

[KittyWampus]

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."

[Emit]

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

[texpatriot2004]

9. Rise of the "Religious Right" in the Repub. Party...see it has been

hijacked.