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How the GOP Became God's Own Party By Kevin Phillips
Washington Post ^
| Sunday, April 2, 2006
| Kevin Phillips
Posted on 04/01/2006 7:02:16 PM PST by Nicholas Conradin
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When I did a search to see whether this article had already been posted, I found that there had been earlier discussion of Phillips' book, but this article is at least from the author himself. I do not find myself in much agrement with Phillips, though in the late 1960s he was a leading figure in proposing the Southern Strategy that ultimately led to GOP dominance. Appealing to religion is hardly a Republican mopoply, however.
Comment #2 Removed by Moderator
To: Nicholas Conradin; NYer; Mr. Silverback
The Republican Party was founded by abolitionists, many of whom were Christians who opposed slavery for moral reasons.
Abortion is a form of slavery since the mother is designated as the master over the child's life and death.
As the pro-life party the GOP has merely returned to its roos!
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:09:38 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(Katherine Harris is 'In It to Win It' .....Go here: http://www.electharris.org/)
To: Nicholas Conradin
Well, I don't know if the GOP can be described as a "religious party", but they have certainly put social conservatism well ahead of limited government and individual liberty on their list of priorities. Instead of the Democrat "Nanny State", maybe we can call the GOP's goal "The Pappy State" - a Big and Growing Government using the Rod of Correction on wayward drug users while letting anyone into the country who agrees to pay into and prop up Social Security and Medicare and delivering sermons on Mandatory Volunteerism in a Southern drawl. ;)
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:10:02 PM PST
by
Mr. Jeeves
("When the government is invasive, the people are wanting." -- Tao Te Ching)
To: Nicholas Conradin
I find it funny that he says the Republicans are the 'First religious party in history' not even noticing that it is the Democrats who are the only party ever to elect a minister President (Woodrow Wilson). It's especially funny, because Wilson actually had the kind of 'God Complex' then he accuses Bush of having.
To: Nicholas Conradin
I think the democrat party did it by default when they evicted god from the discussion as a thought crime and then embraced homosexual based marriage, quota queens, abortion on whim, open boarders and soak the taxpayer politics.
A person of any conscience has no place at the democrat party table.
To: Nicholas Conradin
What utter nonsense.
Evangelicals tend to vote Republican, but black churches belong to the Rats, as do most of the Jews.
Catholic Bishops tend to be extremely left-wing.
There are plenty of Republicans who don't attend church and are proud conservatives.
The whole premise is absurd.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:14:33 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Nicholas Conradin
Which party is more into proclaiming Jeremiads, I'd like to know. The enviro-libs have that one down cold. Repent (from raping the earth) or you will be destroyed. The libs have simply extended the Puritan tradition without the religious terminology. They've just replaced it with earth-worship. No one is more self righteous than an anti-SUV activist, etc.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:16:48 PM PST
by
jwalburg
(If I have not seen as far as others, it is because of the giants standing on my shoulders.)
To: Nicholas Conradin
He's just trying to sell his new book...
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:17:20 PM PST
by
meema
(I am a Conservative Traditional Republican, NOT an elitist, sexist, cynic or right wing extremist!)
To: Nicholas Conradin
Is it necessary that any one should certify, "General Washington avowed himself to me a believer in Christianity?" As well may we question his patriotism, his heroic, disinterested devotion to his country. His mottos were, "Deeds, not Words"; and, "For God and my Country." - Nelly Custis-Lewis (Martha Washington's niece and, later, adopted daughter)
Must have been tough to have a "theocracy" right at the very beginning of our nation. However did we get along without the likes of Kevin Phillips?
To: Nicholas Conradin
I don't know how WaPo, Russert, etc. can get away with promoting this Philips guy without mentioning that during the last Presidential campaign he was going around accusing Bush of arranging for the 9/11 terrorists to board the plane in DC without being checked.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:19:01 PM PST
by
Jim_Curtis
(There isn't a more appropriate way to wave the US flag than in the face of its enemies.)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Theocracy?????? LOL. We can't even say Jesus on government property. You have to be an absolute idiot to think we are anywhere near a theorcracy.
To: Jim_Curtis
that cinches it--he is psychotic; there is a paranoid grandiosity here of "being able to figure it all out" that is detached from reality.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:31:03 PM PST
by
gusopol3
To: Nicholas Conradin
an elected leader who believes himself to speak for the Almighty,Bush has never claimed this or even spoken of it; an out and out blatant lie amongst many subtle lies.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:35:37 PM PST
by
E=MC<sup>2</sup>
(Are liberals born stupid, or do they have to work at it???)
To: Nicholas Conradin
There's something missing there. The Democrats didn't just become a secular party. They became a party that tolerated a wing that believed it was right and moral to lie down before Communism and now is doing the same before Islamofascism. It is a wing that believes America is evil and needs to be defeated. It has no place in a mainstream political party.
Until the Democrats get rid of that wing there is, to me, at least no other choice, at least on the federal level, to vote Republican. The religious conservatives may have a narrower take on what our rights are than I do, but at least they believe in defending those rights. The Democrats either don't or would lose too much support within their party, if they did.
To: zbigreddogz
Yes. and don't forget born-again" Jimmah.
To: Nicholas Conradin
on top of it all, a White House that adopts agendas seemingly animated by biblical worldviews. hmmm
Over a quarter-century ...the Republican democratic Party has slowly become the vehicle of all three interests taken over by the socialists
This guy's thought processes - are so twisted it's a wonder he doesn't spin off into oblivion. This article is simply a spiel - no other word for it. (Spiel: "an irritatingly long or predictably glib speech, for example, a rambling apology or a prepared sales patter." Encarta)
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:47:57 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
("...BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME." Lincoln)
To: William Creel
I couldn't find the original transcript on PBS NOW with Moyers that aired 7/24/2004. I found it at the time though, this was a post I made at the time. Philips' claimed Bush was behind 9/11 as a "wag the dog" thing, dontcha know.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1179065/posts
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:49:12 PM PST
by
Jim_Curtis
(There isn't a more appropriate way to wave the US flag than in the face of its enemies.)
To: Nicholas Conradin
Utterly ridiculous. God has no stake in the Republican party. He has, however, soundly condemned the Democrat agenda.
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posted on
04/01/2006 7:50:17 PM PST
by
WorkingClassFilth
(Di'ver'si'ty (adj.): A compound word derived from the root words: division; perversion; adversity.)
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