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The nasty side of the new GOP
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Oct 23, 2006 12:02pm |
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| News Date | Monday, October 23, 2006 06:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Of the hundreds of thousands of words employed in this year's election campaign, none is more likely to have an impact on post-election politics than Dick Armey's characterization of Christian evangelicals in the Bush Republican Party as "thugs."
Armey is no outsider taking shots at a GOP in trouble. He was an architect of the 1994 GOP campaign that brought Republicans to power in Congress, was House GOP majority leader, and is an evangelical himself. But Republicans now in control in Washington are guilty of pandering to Christian conservatives, especially to evangelical leaders like James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, Armey contends.
As their power has grown in the GOP, Armey complained, evangelicals like Dobson have begun threatening to withhold election-day support from Republican candidates who don't obey their dictates.
"Dobson and his gang of thugs are real nasty bullies," Armey says in a new book, "The Elephant in the Room" by Ryan Sager. "I pray devoutly, but being Christian is no excuse for being stupid. There's a high demagoguery coefficient to issues like prayer in the schools. These issues are easy for the intellectually lazy." |
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