The Pennsylvania chapter of Donald Wildmon's ultra-conservative American Family Association has warned Rick Santorum that "he needs to be careful" as a result of his ever-evolving stance on intelligent design. Here's how the York Daily Record describes the situation:
A conservative organization that touts itself as a supporter of traditional values blasted Sen. Rick Santorum for his withdrawal of support for the Dover Area School District's unconstitutional intelligent design policy.
"Senator Rick Santorum's agreement with Judge John Jones' decision ... is yet another example of why conservatives can no longer trust the senator," the American Family Association of Pennsylvania said in a news release Friday.
The association's president, Diane Gramley, said Santorum - who is expected to face a tough re-election challenge next year from state Treasurer Robert P. Casey Jr. - should heed her organization's remarks.
"It's a warning that he needs to be careful," Gramley said. "That he's beginning to lose his conservative base."
Uh oh, Rick. The conservatives are beginning to get restless. Here's the
AFA's full press release.
It's lights-out time. Take the pills that the nice nurse gives you and go to bed. You'll feel much better in the morning when your intensive anger-management therapy resumes.
AFA knows Little Rickey is going down and going down hard. If they keep their pony tied to his losing wagon they go down with him and look like the un-American bottom dwellers they really are. This way the AFA can say, "See, we took our support away and Ricky lost. WE are STILL all powerful." Little Ricky, on the other hand, can use this to try and con some voters into thinking he is not the full blown un-American theocratic freak which he most certainly is.
Wildmon and all the theocrats still take their lead from and have to use the template given to them by their True Savior, the one how taught the right how the game can be won by using deceptive tactics.
Here's a link to the tale of how people like Wildmon, Falwell, Robertson, and Santorum began looking powerful in the first place. How it happened was not the product of the free market of ideas nor any democratic process - their savior literally paid for and guided it.
Without their savior the theocratic right is NOTHING. He said his job as "messiah" was to raise people like them up at least for the appearance of political power in America and he did it.
Read some of how it went down here:
http://www.cellwhitman.blogspot.com/
Little Ricky goin down.
That alone should get the fundies undies in a knot!
"It's bad to be thrown to the lions but it's pure hell to be thrown to the Christians.
#5 Lonely Ga Dem on Dec 26 2005, 19:09"
And after reading TBogg and Wolcott this morning... maybe it's not a bad idea to rethink that second amendment thing after all. Purely for self-defense, of course ...
Just thought y'all would want to know.
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Quoting Barry Goldwater - who most certainly LOST this fight:
"However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise. There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being. But like any powerful weapon, the use of God's name on one's behalf should be used sparingly. The religious factions that are growing throughout our land are not using their religious clout with wisdom. They are trying to force government leaders into following their position 100 percent. If you disagree with these religious groups on a particular moral issue, they complain, they threaten you with a loss of money or votes or both.
I'm frankly sick and tired of the political preachers across this country telling me as a citizen that if I want to be a moral person, I must believe in 'A,' 'B,' 'C,' and 'D.' Just who do they think they are? And from where do they presume to claim the right to dictate their moral beliefs to me? And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God-granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate. I am warning them today: I will fight them every step of the way if they try to dictate their moral convictions to all Americans in the name of 'conservatism.' "
By the way, nice website. As a fan of stopCoulter, which also devotes itself to one Wingnut - a fulltime endeavor - I like the concept.
Not being from Pennsylvania, it is really none of my business who the people of your state choose to represent them, but I just have to ask; what the hell were you people thinking?
Just kidding. I live in Georgia where my vote doesn't count, or is counted by Diedold, which is the same thing.
Ah, yes...that Second Amendment. Seems people, even liberals such as myself, are giving it a second look, now that the first amendment is being shredded like the 4th amendment has been ever since Raygun declared a "war on drugs."
This country will never be the liberal Democracy it claims to be as long as the fundys and corporate sociopaths have so much political power: More of a theocratic oligarchy, and that, friends, is enough to cause me to arm myelf to the teeth.
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Ever since it became unmistakably clear that the rich pro-Bush "conservatives" didn't just want MOST of the money, they wanted ALL of it, I kept wondering: when they had stolen all our money, and left us on the street to die, what did they plan to do for house servants, and gardeners and other quasi-slaves?
I mean, this really bothered me! It seemed woefully short-sighted of the poor bastards. And then it occurred to me: immigration policy. Guest workers program. A new class of people to oppress, AND you get your lawn mowed and the shit shoveled out of the polo ponies' stable at the same time. Makes sense, doesn't it?
And could someone tell me WHY they're called conservatives, when they seem so intent on destroying everything America stands for in the name of greed? Far as I can tell, they aren't conserving a DAMN thing. Except their own personal fortunes.
And I may not be a Pennsylvanian, but I've been taking note of your Jr. Senator's career lately. Seems to me, Little Ricky's main problem is, he can't figure out which arsehole to stick his nose up any more. Bush is in the crapper, Specter making noises like he's maybe got a mind of his own, and the religious wingnuts all OVER his ass - I mean, what's an incompetent, in-over-his-head sycophant to do?
I can't really complain too much about your guy, though. Hell, I live in Kentucky! Where our senior senator is an unrepentant criminal pro-business Fascist, and our junior senator is something like 15-20 years older than him, and in the mid-stages of Alzheimer's (and I'm not kidding). So you think YOU got problems?
But hey, maybe it's just me...I get kinda tetchy when people lie to me, especially in such an obvious way as the Republicans consistently do.
Gawd, I can't wait till November '06. The Dems may or may not win back both houses (seems at least plausible), but at least then we can be absolutely sure if the whole country is irredeemably insane or not.
Or has that question already been answered?