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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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To: Nicholas Conradin
Image hosted by Photobucket.com uuuhhhhhhhhmmm... because God was ABANDONED and SHUNNED by the RATS???
21 posted on 04/01/2006 7:53:09 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: longtermmemmory

When the Democratic Party was taken over by secularists, Christians sought a party that would not allow Christianity to be driven from the public square.


22 posted on 04/01/2006 7:53:55 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: gusopol3

Do you mean Kevin or Howard ?


23 posted on 04/01/2006 7:54:48 PM PST by Sam the Sham (A conservative party tough on illegal immigration could carry California in 2008)
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To: Nicholas Conradin

HAR!! These scumbag liberals are STILL beside themselves that Dubya is President.


24 posted on 04/01/2006 7:56:18 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Image hosted by Photobucket.com Ich bin ein Jesuslander...
25 posted on 04/01/2006 7:57:33 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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To: Nicholas Conradin

I'm no fan of the Republicans or George Bush but this guy is out to lunch. There are so many legitimate issues that conservatives can use to criticize Bush and the Republicans; why does this bozo need to go off into fantasy land???


26 posted on 04/01/2006 7:57:50 PM PST by al_again
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To: Nicholas Conradin

Phillips is guilty of deliberate fear mongering. If we can't beat the Republicans on the issues, we'll make sure we scare secular Americans into thinking Christians are taking over the overnment. If I went to a public meeting and discovered that all the people there happened to be Christians, would it be a Christian meeting or would it just be a public meeting that only Christians decided to attend?


27 posted on 04/01/2006 7:59:47 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: sageb1

overnment=government


28 posted on 04/01/2006 8:00:47 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: Nicholas Conradin

The fact that the Democrat "base" is comprised of athiests, condom-throwers, Hollywood drunks, abortion enthusiasts, and Boy Scout-hating feminists has nothing to do with attraction to the GOP by decent, honest, traditional American families. Nothing at all.


29 posted on 04/01/2006 8:03:21 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: zbigreddogz
"...a minister President (Woodrow Wilson)."

Wilson was not a minister; he was a history professor (PhD in history). He was head of Princeton at one time. His father was a minister, but Woodrow Wilson did not study for the ministry and was never one, himself.

30 posted on 04/01/2006 8:13:59 PM PST by Irene Adler
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To: Nicholas Conradin

If this guy thinks the Republicans are God's own party, what is he going to say when the Army of the Lord shows up, and prepares the Throne for Christ's permanent return to Earth. Not by natural or violent means, but by simply overwhelming the inhabinabts of this world with the Spirit of love, joy, peace, perfect health, and immortality, in absolute purpose, authority, and supernatural power.


31 posted on 04/01/2006 8:28:32 PM PST by HisKingdomWillAbolishSinDeath (My Homeland Security: Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper)
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To: Nicholas Conradin

I remember the moving sermon Mrs. Clinton gave us recently.


32 posted on 04/01/2006 8:29:58 PM PST by The Worthless Miracle ("Better put some ice on that")
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To: longtermmemmory

**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.**

The liberals "progressed" to become Marxists.


33 posted on 04/01/2006 8:31:00 PM PST by Galveston Grl (Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
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To: Nicholas Conradin
How the GOP Became God's Own Party

Between the two major parties...basically by default.

It's a silly discussion, anyway. As I've said before, God is neither Democrat nor Republican. He's a royalist. What else could He be?

34 posted on 04/01/2006 8:33:27 PM PST by RichInOC (Jesus is coming back soon...and boy, is He one unhappy camper.)
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To: Dog Gone
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.

Well said.

I'm not religious myself, but I welcome the "Religious Right" into the party. And I wonder why "Religious Right" has become almost a pejorative, whereas the term "Religious Left" is never seen, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Bishop Spong, et al. notwithstanding.

35 posted on 04/01/2006 8:47:53 PM PST by southernnorthcarolina (Some people are like Slinkies: totally useless, but fun to throw down a stair.)
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To: southernnorthcarolina
whereas the term "Religious Left" is never seen

I have always thought of the two sides as "the religious right" and "the godless left".

36 posted on 04/01/2006 8:49:58 PM PST by Lancey Howard
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To: Nicholas Conradin
Kevin Phillips morphed into a liberal. I see no evidence of the GOP being guided by a theoconservative agenda.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

37 posted on 04/01/2006 8:50:59 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: zbigreddogz

Wilson was indeed a nominal minister. That was not his primary, or even his secondary calling. He was a Ph.D., full professor and president of Princeton University at the time of his election in 1912. Your post discloses a great deal by saying too little.


38 posted on 04/01/2006 8:51:22 PM PST by middie (ath.Tha)
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To: Mr. Jeeves
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. ;)

I agree and not just drugs. The dems are correct when they talk about personal freedom in terms of privacy. The big daddy GOP does want to invade people's privacy and tell folks what values they should hold. There is a parental sense in so many "social" conservatives and they don't care how big government gets in order to achieve their agenda.

39 posted on 04/01/2006 8:57:08 PM PST by Sunsong
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To: Nicholas Conradin

Kevin Phillips: Are you drunk, or are your fingers just badly swollen?


40 posted on 04/01/2006 9:03:35 PM PST by charrisGOP (Famous last words: I’ll get right with God later...)
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