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To: keepitreal

Was Haggard running for anything? Influence voters on what? I am pretty much a politics junky but I had never heard of Haggard before today.


4 posted on 11/03/2006 3:26:06 PM PST by Williams
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Neither had I. Graham or Dobson, or even tangentially Falwell or Robertson would have been huge.

This is a tempest in a teapot, imo.
8 posted on 11/03/2006 3:27:26 PM PST by pollyannaish
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Is the trying to influence voters in the election because Haggard is a minister and this guy thinks he can smear Christians and that will be the influence?


10 posted on 11/03/2006 3:28:00 PM PST by YellowRoseofTx
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He's been touring the country with people like James Dobson, Chuck Colson, Ann Coulter, and a host of Republican politicos trying to get the "values voters" out on election day. Solid Republicans aren't going to be influenced by this, but there are likely some others, especially if they listened to and respected Haggard's messages before all this blew up in his face.

Not all conservatives are "broken glass" Republicans.


12 posted on 11/03/2006 3:30:27 PM PST by tyke
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I thought they were talking about the guy who wrote the song, "Okie From Muskogee."


16 posted on 11/03/2006 3:33:01 PM PST by Muleteam1
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Haggard has been an advocate for the marriage amendment (Amendment 43) that is on the ballot in Colorado.


17 posted on 11/03/2006 3:33:14 PM PST by keepitreal
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To: Williams
Was Haggard running for anything? Influence voters on what? I am pretty much a politics junky but I had never heard of Haggard before today.

No. No he wasn't...or...isn't.

I'm supposing that Michael Jones thought to influence what are called "evangelical Christians" whatever they are.
Apparently, as a group, they are considered lemmings by those such as Michael Jones. Still, it makes no sense.

I believe that he timed it to get maximum media play since the MSM would pay more attention to the outing of someone like Haggard right before an election.

22 posted on 11/03/2006 3:41:11 PM PST by Bloody Sam Roberts (Mathemeticians are machines that turn coffee into theorems.)
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To: Williams
I had never heard of Haggard before today.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!

69 posted on 11/04/2006 6:47:50 AM PST by lonestar (Me, too--Weinie)
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