“When was Frank Schaeffer ever a Republican?”
You ever notice that he mentions his “former Republican” credentials in literally every article he writes? He does this more often than Jesse Jackson plays the race card. It reminds me of the quote from Hamlet: “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”
To show you how often he does it, I kept a collection of excerpts:
Why This Fifty-Five Year Old White Lifelong Republican Wants Obama To Win
As a lifelong Republican (who reregistered as an independent out of disgust with the dirty-tricks, hate-filled Rovian Republican Party), as a former right-wing activist
Note: I say this as a former lifelong Republican
As a lifelong Republican conservative one of the reasons I left the Republican Party and reregistered as an independent voter was the fact that American “conservatism” seems more and more made up of pigs who wouldn’t know what gentlemanly behavior consists of if it bit them in their “fleshy parts,”
some like me — a white middle class 55-year-old lifelong Republican, now reregistered as an independent
Back in the days when I was a lifelong Republican
and as a former lifelong Republican, and as a former McCain supporter
I have an insider’s perspective on both the military benefits and evangelical-support-for-Israel issues: I was a lifelong Republican
As the son of a pastor, as a former lifelong Republican, as a white 55-year-old middle class, gun-owning male, as a practicing and believing Christian
As both a military parent of a Marine, a former lifelong Republican
many older folks like me — a white middle class and middle aged male and former life-long Republican
As a former lifelong Republican, as an activist key in the formation of the Religious Right, as a white middle-aged middle-class man who is an avid supporter of Senator Obama
This life-long Republican white man is moved, humbled and changed.
(I say this as a lifelong Republican who worked to get McCain elected in the 2000 primaries.)
I was a lifelong Republican (now reregistered as an Independent)
Disclosure: I was raised in the evangelical right wing, left and in 1990, converted to the Greek Orthodox Church and also changed from a lifelong Republican to an Independent voter, who is an Obama supporter
So, I know something about the Republican Party having been a lifelong Republican until recently when, disgusted with the dirty tricks perpetrated by Rove and others, I quit and registered as an independent voter.
As you know I was a lifelong Republican until I reregistered as an Independent in 2006, after I just couldn’t take the Rove brigade’s dirty tricks, lies and slime any longer
In 2000, as a lifelong Republican
As a lifelong Republican (until I re-registered as an independent voter in 2006),
The Republican Party—and I speak as a former lifelong Republican who, up through the 2000 primary campaign supported John McCain
Author’s Note: I happen to be a white, male, fifty-seven-year-old former lifelong Republican. Obama is the first Democratic Party presidential candidate I ever voted for.
As a former lifelong Republican, son of a co-founder of the Religious Right
I used to be one of you. As recently as 2000 I worked to get Senator McCain elected in that year’s primary. (McCain and Gen. Tommy Franks wrote glowing endorsements regarding my book about military service, AWOL.). I have a file of handwritten thank you notes from Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush I and II. In the 1970s and early 80s I hung out with Jack Kemp and bought into his “supply side” myth and even wrote a book he endorsed pushing his ideas.) There’s more, but take it from me; my parents (evangelical leaders Francis and Edith Schaeffer) and I were about as tight with — and useful to — the Republican Party as anyone. We played a big part creating the Religious Right. In the mid 1980s I left the Religious Right
so who the heck is Frank? Why does his opinion have more weight that Bud my dog?