I'm very surprised to see Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition running with these concern trolls.
Back in 2000 (1999 actually, I guess), Karl Rove recruited Ken Lay and his criminal Enron enterprise to sideline Reed with a political consulting contract that tied down Reed during the 2000 primary season. He wanted Reed out of the way while he steered Dubya and the Bush faction into the White House with Log Cabin support. Rove was lecturing the Christian conservatives at the 2000 convention over their box lunches while Dubya and Mary Matalin were across town wining and dining with the Loggies and telling them that sure, they were all for "gay marriage" --- any opposition, Matalin told the gays, was "so unfair!"
So why is Reed running with these trolls now on immigration/Blowing Up Old America?
Rove and Reed have been running together for a long time along with Grover Norquist, all leaders in the ‘young republican’ movement together. It’s such a tangled mess. I’ve spent years trying to sort it out, but the one thing you always see is Rove, Reed, Norquist and often Gingrich supporting the same stuff and being in the same places. The fourth one of that cabal, Jack Abramoff, went to jail. The others should be there.
[snip](Must Read!)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/28/AR2005122801588.html?sub=new
The Fast Rise and Steep Fall of Jack Abramoff
How a Well-Connected Lobbyist Became the Center of a Far-Reaching Corruption Scandal
By Susan Schmidt and James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 29, 2005; Page A01
A quarter of a century ago, Abramoff and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist were fellow Young Turks of the Reagan revolution. They organized Massachusetts college campuses in the 1980 election — Abramoff while he was an undergraduate at Brandeis and Norquist at Harvard Business School — to help Ronald Reagan pull an upset in the state.
They moved to Washington, maneuvered to take over the College Republicans — at the time a sleepy establishment organization — and transformed it into a right-wing activist group. They were joined by Ralph Reed, an ambitious Georgian whose later Christian conversion would fuel his rise to national political prominence.
A thirty pieces of silver type guy? IIRC the Southern Baptist Convention is the largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. What did Reed think of them during Romney's run? They weren't needed. Which is true in a sense, because Obama wasn't going to win the South anyway, but...
Atlanta Journal Constituion August 30, 2012
Not that Southern Baptists have changed their mind, Reed said. But politically, they don’t matter as much:
”Remember, if you’ve got a grandma sitting in the third row of an independent Baptist , white sideboard church who can’t bring herself to vote for a Mormon because she believes it’s a heresy, she’s more than likely in north Georgia, upstate South Carolina or eastern Tennessee.
“And we don’t need her. But when you talk about the suburbs of Orlando, or the exurbs of Cincinnati, that’s not their deal. It’s not an issue.”
Wall Street Journal August 30, 2012
Ralph Reed, founder of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, acknowledged that some evangelical voters may shun Mr. Romney because of his faith, but said most of them reside in heavily Republican states, such as Arkansas, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
"We don't need 'em," he said.
How do you have a viable Coalition without the largest Protestant denomination on board?
Disclaimer: We withdrew our letter of faith from the SBC almost two years ago. Cultural Marxism isn't faith.